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There was a Benedictine
Priory at Little Malvern in the Middle Ages, and
when its lands came into Catholic hands, Little Malvern
Court became a centre for recusancy, and Mass continued
to be celebrated there. After Catholic Emancipation,
the Berington family gave some land to build a large
Church, never fully realised, but which is the origin
of the Church of St Wulstan. Designed by Benjamin
Bucknall (1833 – 1895) a disciple of the French Gothic
revivalist, Viollet-le-Duc, it overlooks the Severn
valley, projecting from the side of the Malvern Hills,
and is the last resting place of Sir Edward Elgar.
The large building next
to the Church, now in private hands, was at one time
the base of the President of the English Benedictine
Congregation. Monks have served as chaplains in Little
Malvern from 1760; it became a Benedictine parish
in 1825.
www.saint-wulstans.org.uk
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