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The posthumous son, Sir Thomas Kitson, married in 1557 but she died in 1558 and he married
Elizabeth who arrived with a £600 dowry and the training necessary to be the household manager of Hengrave Hall. Lady Elizabeth and her husband were keen on music and employed resident musicians Edward Johnson
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attempted to restore the interior of the house to its original Tudor appearance in 1899. He rebuilt the east wing and re-panelled most of the house in oak. One room, the Oriel
Chamber, retains its original seventeenth-century paneling, in which is embedded a portrait of
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members, many of whom came from countries in
Central and Eastern Europe for periods ranging from one year to three months. Although strongly inspired by other ecumenical communities like
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Hengrave eventually passed down the female Kitson line, and on the death of
Elizabeth Kitson in 1628 the music collections and the house was inherited by her daughter
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The chapel contains 21 lights of
Flemish glass commissioned by Kitson and installed in 1538, depicting salvation history from the creation of the world to the
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in 1675. It is thought that some of the original panelling found its way to the Gage's townhouse in
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was filled in. Alterations on the front of the house were begun but never completed, and
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