Padley Chapel is a building in

Grindleford Grindleford is a village and civil parish in the county of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 909. It lies at an altitude of in the valley of the River Derwent in t ...

, England, on the site of the former Padley Hall (or Padley Manor). It is a

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Padley Hall

Padley Hall was a large double courtyard house where, in 1588, two Catholic priests ( Nicholas Garlick and

Robert Ludlam Robert Ludlam (c. 1551 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born around 1551, in Derbyshire. His father was a yeoman. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, in 1575, and re ...

) were discovered. At the time to be a Catholic priest, ordained abroad was deemed treason; the two were tried and found guilty, two weeks later, they were hanged, drawn and quartered in

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. They became known as the 'Padley Martyrs'. The house today is mostly in ruins, and is a

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. Garlick’s head was by tradition buried in the graveyard of Tideswell parish church, but there is no evidence of this.

Chapel

Part of Padley Hall—probably originally the central gatehouse range—survives, and in 1933 was converted to a Catholic chapel in honour of the martyrs. The chapel is a Grade I listed building which stands not far from the railway line, a short distance west of

Grindleford railway station Grindleford railway station serves the village of Grindleford in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England, although the station is about a mile way, the nearest village being Nether Padley. History It was opened in 1894 on the Midland Rai ...

. A pilgrimage takes place every year in July.

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Padley Hall

Chapel

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