Catherine Coldstream
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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It was what we think of as like a sort of grand old manor house, really.
It was a large, rambling, gothic building with loads of outbuildings and sheds.
But it was like a very large, grand family house from the days when minor aristocracy lived in these kind of beautiful buildings and had lots of grounds.
So it was a house that had staircases, you know, great big sweeping staircases and windows.
stained glass windows and high ceilings.
I mean, it had grown derelict after the war.
And so when the nuns took it over, I think they needed to do a lot of cleaning up.
And they basically would have just kept it really bare.
So it was like a sort of, if you think of somewhere not as grand as like Brideshead Revisited, but on a much smaller scale, or Downton Abbey, but it was a smaller version of that, but completely bare inside in a very sort of
stark, austere way that was actually really kind of spiritually inspiring.
You know, there's a lovely sort of echo and lovely light and a sense of space.
And cold, cold floors, cold rooms.
Yeah, it was very cold.
We didn't have central heating.
It was really far north of England, very drafty in winter.
The windows rattled and the cold air would come in.
But there was something really beautiful about it.
I think it was very isolated and it was in beautiful countryside farmlands everywhere.
lakes and trees and meadows and hills in the distance.
So you had a sense of being protected actually from the modern world.
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