Warwick Castle

These united fraternities had numerous activities.

They supported the priests who served in the chapels over East and West Gates and contributed towards the keep of others in the parish church, being also largely responsible for the maintenance of the Great Bridge, now and for long past in ruins, which carried the Banbury Road across the Avon in front of Warwick Castle.

They also supported eight poor persons of the guild.

In common with all other religious or semi-religious institutions, the guild was dissolved in the time of Henry VIII, and its buildings were granted by Edward VI to Sir Nicholas Lestrange, from whom Dudley acquired them, or according to another version of these transactions, Dudley had a gift of them direct from the town of Warwick to which the guild had voluntarily transferred its property.

Photographs give an exaggerated idea of its size, but scarcely do justice to its beauty and the extreme richness of its details, still remarkable, although the ancient coloured glass has been mostly destroyed and the golden images of the altar have disappeared.

It is indeed due to the second Lord Brooke, who, although a partisan of the Cromwellian side during the Civil War, was naturally keen to preserve the glories of Warwick that the chapel was not wholly destroyed in that age of tumults.

Lord Brooke was the son of that Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, to whom James I had granted Warwick Castle in 1605, and he no doubt looked upon the Beauchamps as ancestors, although there was never the remotest connection between that ancient martial family and his own, the Grevilles or Grevilles, who descend from the old wool merchants of the name at Chipping Campden and elsewhere in the Cotswolds.

He adopted them and took over, so to speak, with the castle, and a good thing too for these old monuments that had so fortunate an adoption.

Like the one that we went to.

Warwick Castle.

Yeah, that's the one.

[laughs]

Yeah, Warwick Castle was lovely.

[laughs]

Right, hey.

We've got...

Yes, we've got some nice tourist attractions with Warwick Castle not far away-

Yeah

...

Yeah.

Would you recommend staying at Warwick Castle?

Um, yeah.

Yeah?

Frances Evelyn Warwick.

Warwick Castle, August 1916.

End of preface.

Recording by Astrid Weinmann, London.

The present one is little more than that.

Down to a few years ago, the old gates were still standing at Temple Bar to divide the city from Westminster.

At Warwick Castle, the drawbridge is still raised every night.

In some of the cities of southern Spain, watchmen armed with spears and oil lamps still proclaim the time of night and the state of the weather.

Frances Evelyn Warwick.

Warwick Castle, August nineteen sixteen.

End of preface.

Recording by Astrid Weinmann, London.

The present one is little more than that.

Down to a few years ago, the old gates were still standing at Temple Bar to divide the city from Westminster.

At Warwick Castle, the drawbridge is still raised every night.

In some of the cities of Southern Spain, watchmen armed with spears and oil lamps still proclaim the time of night and the state of the weather.

Lazy Susans.

You'd have to be Strangely locked up in like a dungeon at Warwick Castle after all exhibits had shut and weirdly you'd got in there trapped.

The security had left you.

Suddenly you were stranded while it was closed for repairs for six months.