Pevsner: FORMER CHAPEL, Harlowbury. Norman. Nave and chancel in one, with a C15 king-post roof. The chapel has its original three E windows and N doorway (with columns with waterleaf capitals). Also two original N and one original S windows.
HARLOW. A little old-world town of much delight, it has a church full of fine things, a manor house of great interest, and a fine little Tudor chantry-house with a lovely porch and 16th century glass illustrating the months. The oldest parts of the manor house are Tudor, but it is the successor of a house given by Edward the Confessor, 900 years ago, to the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds. In a corner of the garden is a granary built by the Normans, still with its Norman doorway and windows, and with a kingpost roof of the 15th century. It was built as a chapel, the private shrine of the old abbots, who rested here on their journeys to London.
Hi, Actually the house is considerably older than tudor. It was built by the abbots of Bury St Edmunds. Dendrochronology has yielded a date of 1221-1225 for the major wing of the house.
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