SAWSTON HALL
Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire. Tudor house with priest holes in the masonry. Mary Tudor said to have slept here in 1553. Woman on the stairs is a later report. No primary still this cabinet will hang.
000°10'00 E
1. Public Record
Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire. A Tudor house built to hide men. Priest holes survive in the masonry. The Huddlestons hold it through the dangerous Catholic years. Queen Mary Tudor is said to have slept here in 1553 on her way to the throne, after a fire at nearby Cambridge. That is stone and a date. The woman on the stairs is a later report.
Local talk gives a figure in the gallery, a scent of flowers, a Brown Lady who is not the Raynham photograph and should not steal it. After the house passes toward school use, staff and visitors keep the stair story. Investigators come with meters and leave with temperature and a paragraph. No inquest. No plate this archive treats as primary. The holes in the walls are the only recovery that does not need a believer.
A priest hole is a fact. The woman on the stairs is a report.
2. Date of Incident
House Tudor. Mary 1553 as history. Haunt talk through post-war change of use. No single night owns the figure.
3. Location
Sawston, Cambridgeshire. Approximate 52°07 N 000°10 E.
4. Official Narrative
Heritage and later school. Official narrative is building history, not a haunting certificate.
5. Witness Layer
Household staff. Later students and visitors. Night walkers with meters.
6. Recovery Logistics
No object. The holes in the walls are the only recovery.
7. Assessment
A house file. Keep the priest holes and 1553 so the page has masonry and a queen before it has a ghost. Do not steal Raynham's photograph. Do not write a named Tudor woman as identified. Meters are not a coroner.
8. Materials & Remains
The hall. The holes. Visitor accounts.
9. Key Personnel
Huddleston household : The Catholic years.
Later occupants : The stairs.
10. Aftermath
The hall remains a hall. The stairs remain a story people ask for. The holes remain holes.
11. Current Archive Status
Status: Tudor house. Priest holes. Stair figure untyped. No primary still.
Confidence: High that the building contains priest holes and that occupants have reported a woman on the stairs. Low that the figure is identified. Low that any photograph from this house is the Raynham plate.
Filing note
A Catholic house built to hide men, a queen in 1553, a later school, a stair that keeps a woman, a flower scent that cannot be filed, no plate that this cabinet will hang beside Raynham.
Priest holes are a fact. Start there. The rest is a report on a staircase.