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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.
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