Tudor mansion offers audio experience of Mass as Henry VIII would have heard it

Visitors to a Tudor mansion are being given the chance to listen to a reconstruction of a 16th-century Mass.

The Vyne, a country house near Basingstoke where Henry VIII attended Mass, has worked with historians and musicians to record a Lady Mass as it would have sounded in Tudor England. The National Trust website explains: “You’ll hear the subtle change in volume of the priest’s voice as he turns from the altar, the clink of the thurible chain as incense is blessed, even the faint rustle of clothing.”