Hoar Cross is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of East Staffordshire, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Burton upon Trent.

Hoarcross, as it was then called, was enclosed like the nearby Chartley Park from Needwood Forest.

Today this 19th century mansion is a hotel and health spa, situated 1⁄2-mile (0.80 km) to the west of Hoar Cross village.

It was built by the pious Anglo-Catholic, Emily Charlotte Meynall-Ingram (sister of Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax) as a memorial to her late husband Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram.

The church - an extremely elaborate edifice - was designed by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner.