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Harvington Hall

Harvington Hall is an Elizabethan House, built in the 1580s by Humphrey Pakington. On his death it was inherited by his daughter Mary, Lady Yate. It is a moated manor-house nestling secretly just south-east of Kidderminster. Many of the Rooms still have their original Elizabethan wall-paintings and the Hall contains the finest series of priest-holes anywhere in the country.
During the 19th Century it was stripped of furniture and paneling and the shell was left almost derelict. But in 1923 it was bought for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, which restored it and now opens it to the public.

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Exciting Lottery News!!!

Harvington Hall has been successful in its bid for a Heritage Lottery Grant to convert the Malt House into a visitor centre and educational resource and have been awarded over £450,000 towards a project that will cost about half a million pounds.
The project will involve repairing and conserving the Malt House, which is listed as an 'at risk' building. The money will also be used to create an easily accessible audio-visual experience on the ground floor as well as giving access to the restored 18th Century malting kiln, with accompanying displays about Tudor life on the Harvington Estate (once 6000 acres). 
On the upper floors there will be a classroom / meeting room and an area to accommodate 20th Century archival material and students who wish to study it.

It is the outcome of the several years of hard work which the project has involved to date and thanks go to everyone who has contributed towards it. There is now much preparation work to be completed before any building work commences; it will mean that there will be quite a bit of disruption to normal Hall life especially in the Malt House area. It is hoped that the project will be completed in Spring 2009.

How to get there
The Hall is situated three miles south-east of Kidderminster, about half a mile east of the A450 Birmingham to Worcester road and about half-a-mile north of the A448 from Kidderminster to Bromsgrove. <Map>

The Hall is the location of the annual Harvington Festival