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No place like home

From Mr Robert Lewis
Sir, — In his excellent review of The English Country House Chapel (Books, 25 April), Dr Julian Litten says that, “while a few house chapels have funerary monuments, none, to my knowledge, has a burial vault, except Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, which started life as the detached parish church.”

John, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was interred in the attached chapel of Blenheim Palace. There is also a dynastic burial vault under the famous Baroque church at Great Witley, Worcestershire. This church is firmly attached to the ruins of Witley Court, a palatial country house, once owned by the Earls of Dudley, which was sadly gutted by fire in 1937.
ROBERT A. LEWIS
Hamilton House, 64 Canon Street
Winchester, Hants SO23 9JW


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