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View of Stonor House from the south.

Stonor Park is a private park and historic country house at Stonor, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England, close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.

1 Setting
2 History
3 Stonor today
4 See also
5 Bibliography
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Setting

The house nestles in the Chiltern Hills. Behind the main house, there is a walled garden in an Italianate style on a rising slope, providing good views. Around the house is a park with a herd of fallow deer. Around the park are Almshill Wood, Balham's Wood and Kildridge Wood. The house and garden are open to the public.

[edit] History

Stonor House has been the home of the Stonor family for more than eight centuries. In the house are displays of family portraits, tapestries, bronzes and ceramics. The house has a 12th century private chapel built of flint and stone, with an early brick tower.

During and after the English Reformation the Stonor family and many other local gentry were recusants. In 1581 the Jesuit priests Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons lived and worked at Stonor Park, and Campion's Decem Rationes was printed here on a secret press. On 4 August 1581 a raid on the house found the press. Campion and Parsons had left a few days earlier, but the elderly Lady Cecily Stonor, her son John, the Jesuit priest William Hartley, the printers and four servants were taken prisoner, and in 1585 Hartley was exiled.^[1] Despite further prosecutions and fines the Stonors remained Roman Catholic throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and enabled many local villagers to remain Roman Catholic by allowing them to attend Mass at their private chapel. Between 1716 and 1756 John Talbot Stonor, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District used Stonor Park as his headquarters.^[1]

[edit] Stonor today

Stonor has been used as a location for a number of film and television productions, including the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).

In 1989, it was used as the home of millionaire Victor Hazell (Robbie Coltrane) in the film version of the Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World.^[2]

It is also used for antique fairs, art exhibitions, craft shows, outdoor concerts, etc.

[edit] See also

Julia Stonor
Baron Camoys
Ralph Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys (the current Lord Camoys)

[edit] Bibliography

Lobel, Mary D. (1964). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. pp. 98–115.
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 791–794. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Lobel, 1964, pages 98–115.
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