Roger Bodenham

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6197/BODENHA... (February 23, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)
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"The Bodenhams acquired many large estates throughout Herefordshire and another Sir Roger (born 1545) and his wife Joan came to live at Rotherwas in 1583. They build the first domestic chapel on the estate in 1583 so they could practice their Catholicism. There are no records of the chapel being consecrated and it may have been used by both Catholics and Protestants. "
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In 1483 the estate passed by marriage from the De La Barre family to the Bodenhams, and in the 1580s Sir Roger Bodenham enlarged the house and rebuilt the chapel. Sir Roger was converted to Roman Catholicism in 1606, apparently following a ‘miraculous’ cure of ‘a gross tumour in the legs’, and thereafter the chapel was used for worship by local Roman Catholics. [https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/rotherwas-chapel/h...]