I first came here four years ago to see rather an important item which is the subject of an exhibition at Hampton Court Palace.
This church is - it's beautiful - in this lovely rural hamlet here in Herefordshire but the object that we found in it is of international significance and we are delighted to be able to bring it to light.
I've known the cloth for years because it's hung for 106 years - no I'm not that old - on the north wall of the church over there.
It was associated with Blanche Parry really rather vaguely because of the monument.
Blanche Parry was born just down the road.
In the end she became Elizabeth's 'Head of the Privy Chamber' If you wanted to get to Elizabeth you went through Blanche.
This was her family's church.
Her ancestors were buried here and this is where she expected to be buried which is why she had this monument put here.
Having found so much about the monument I started to become more curious about the Bacton Altar Cloth itself and then I started to investigate it more.
It was presumably used on an altar for a while.
