Freston Tower

The narrative traces the history of a riverside castellated tower and the baronial household that surrounds it, intertwining local life, charitable traditions, and domestic relationships with the larger religious and political upheavals of the Reformation. It follows the ambitions and fortunes of a promising young scholar and the rise and fall of a powerful royal minister, and moves through rivalries, arrests, marriage alliances, plots, fires, and the suppression of monastic institutions, showing how public events reshape private loyalties, estates, and moral reckonings in a provincial community.