The rectory, a sombre house built about 1865 on the foundations of a thirteenth century monastery, has some twenty-five rooms, and stands in very extensive grounds through which runs a small stream. The grounds adjoin the churchyard, and part of the garden was the site of a Plague pit. There is the remains of a tunnel which once led to the nunnery of Bures seven miles away.
Local legend says that, long ago, a lay brother at the monastery attempted to elope with a novice from Bures. They left in a black coach drawn by two bay horses, and were chased and overtaken. The brother was hanged and the girl walled up alive in the nunnery.
The present story begins many years ago, on a sunny afternoon in July, when the three sisters who own the property saw the figure of a nun moving slowly along what is now known as the Nun's Walk leading towards the church: The youngest sister, then aged twenty-fiv across and spoke to the figure, which vanished, In the year 1929 a new rector came to the parish and entered the house at which there had been curious happenings for some forty years. Although this rector spent £200 on putting the property in order, he could stay for only a few weeks.
For a time the house was left empty.
Then in the autumn of 1930 another rector took the living, and at once the manifestations became more frequent and serious. This rector, who at one period kept a circumstantial diary with a full record of phenomena, stayed until the autumn of 1935 when his health failed
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