by Patrick Burgess
‘O English hearts…..’
His infectious enthusiasm as well as his profound and wide-ranging knowledge of his subject meant that Dr John Robinson, the Archivist at Arundel Castle and an architectural historian, besides being a member of the College of Arms, captured the hearts and minds of his enthralled audience when at the invitation of the Friends of Arundel Cathedral he spoke in Arundel’s Cathedral Centre on 9th April, taking as his subject ‘ Religious Heritage in an Age of Persecution’.
He treated his audience, which had filled the hall and could have listened spell-bound for hours, to stories of rare treasures and daring-do but also of the remarkable resilience of those who in the turbulence of the Tudor period and beyond put at risk not just their lives but all their worldly goods to preserve what they loved.
Aerial panorama Arundel Castle: Wikimedia Commons: by Chensiyuan