— Photos by Simeon Zahl of burial vaults at Hatfield House. Dr. Zahl is a theologian at Cambridge University.
Hatfield House is a country house in the town of Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and chief minister to King James I, and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. The estate includes extensive grounds and surviving parts of an earlier grand house. The house, now the home of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, is open to the public.
