History & Haunting of : The Priest's House ,Muchelney ,Somerset, England ,U.Ky Movie priest house
History & Haunting of :
The Priest's House ,Muchelney ,Somerset, England ,U.K
This medieval hall-house was built in 1308 for the parish priest of the church opposite, and has been little altered since the early 17th century. Interesting features include the Gothic doorway, magnificent double-height tracery windows and a massive 15th-century stone fireplace. It is a National Trust-owned property, It has been designated as a grade II listed building.
A ghostly monk was seen on a regular basis by a former tenant ,and the tenant would hear doors banging in the dead of night ,whether this had anything to do with the death of a nun in the past no one knows .........
The legend go's that a nun and priest fell in love and were secretly married ,the nun had a secret room known only to her husband .....one day he was called away unexpectedly ,only to return to find his wife dead in the secret room .
Since that time strange happenings have occurred on a regular basis
The Priest's House was built by the nearby Muchelney Abbey around 1308 for the parish priest. The viacarage was valued at £10 per annum in 1535. The building was said to be ruinous in 1608. It was used by the vicar or curate until around 1840, when the house was used as a cellar and later as a school.
In the late 19th century it was rented by a farmer. Because of its poor condition it was recommended for demolition in both 1896 and 1901. The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings organised a public appeal to raise money for repairs to which Jane Morris, Thomas Hardy and George Bernard Shaw contributed. As the funding for the restoration was no longer an issue the building was acquired by the National Trust who employed Ernest Barnsley of the Barnsley brothers, the Arts and Crafts movement master builders, to design and the work. It was carried out by Norman Jewson and William Weir. The work left in place and strengthened earlier structures where possible but added new aspects including a stone buttress and a kitchen range.
The original hall went from floor to roof, however in the 16th century a ceiling was added dividing it into two floors. This also involved changes to the original windows
The National Trust rent it to a tenant who provides limited access to the public.
Music ~Harbinger of Doom~
spiritsnightsilence investigation Muchelney Abbey History
25 Monks Banished from the Abbey in shame also a love story attached here
Demonic Entities Seen Here In Priests House NJ
Seven Devil's - Florence and the machine
Several Photos of Angelic beings and There Counter Parts. Not even the church is safe anymore...
Spiral Episode 41 - The Priest House
Travelling to edge of the Ashdown Forest in Sussex - Spiral explore the 15th Century Priest House.
King Alfred's Tower Somerset UK
King Alfred's Tower (Somerset), also known as The Folly of King Alfred the Great or Stourton Tower, is a folly tower. It is in the parish of Brewham in the English county of Somerset, and was built as part of the Stourhead estate and landscape. The tower stands on Kingsettle Hill and belongs to the National Trust.
Henry Hoare II planned in the 1760s the tower to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III near the location of 'Egbert's stone' where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Edington. It was damaged by a plane in 1944 and restored in the 1980s.
The 49-metre (161 ft) high triangular tower has a hollow centre and is climbed by means of a spiral staircase.
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spiritsnightsilence investigation Muchelney Abbey night hauting
on my own with Simba with 2 camera's and 2 tripods made this a hard night......you'll see my dress gets sucked in on questions I ask and you notice it is not windy each time.......
Barden Tower / The Priests House Weddings
Just a brief glimpse of the historic Barden Tower and The Priests House wedding, events and restaurant venue within. Thank you to the fantastic Fletcher Films for the video!
Muchelney floods January 2014
The view from a boat on the road, or river, to Muchelney Abbey from Huish Episcopi.
The Hall of Alfriston Clergy House (built in the late 1300s) DSCN0142
Buses of Somerset 42951
Buses of Somerset Dennis Dart 42951 working route 51
Buses of Somerset 44507 PART 2
44507 YX58 HWF PART 2, On Route 54 to Yeovil
Haunting History of : Jack White's Gibbet~Bratton Seymour , Somerset, England.
Bratton Seymour is a village and civil parish ,the remains of a Roman villa, dating from 222-386, were discovered on Cattle Hill in 1966
It is still called Jack White's Gibbet in memory of an eighteenth-century murderer, though the gibbet itself is of course long gone. In 1730, a traveller named Robert Sutton, while drinking at an inn at Castle Cary, foolishly bragged that he was carrying a good deal of money, so when he went on his way he was trailed by Jack White, a local ruffian. Jack caught up with his victim at the Bratton Seymour junction, and robbed and killed him. When the corpse was found it was laid out in the inn at Wincanton, where many people gathered to view it. Jack was among them, and as he drew near he noticed a trickle of blood beginning to ooze from the dead man's wound; others saw it too, and though Jack tried to run away he was caught and forced to actually touch the corpse, which at once gushed with blood. This was taken as proof of guilt, so he was hanged at the site of the crime, after which his body was gibbeted there and left to rot. According to some informants speaking to twentieth-century folklorists, Jack was more cruelly punished by being locked alive into the iron cage of the gibbet and left to starve to death — a hideous form of punishment known in Elizabethan times and said to have been employed in the late seventeenth century on Bagshot Heath, Surrey. A further elaboration of the Wincanton tradition, recorded by Kingsley Palmer in 1968-9, is that the victim was Jack's own long-lost brother, returning home anonymously to surprise his family after making his fortune abroad. In any case, Jack's ghost still haunts the spot, and the story still circulates vigorously. It is hard to tell just where history merges into legend in a tale like this. The murder is certainly factual, as are the names of murderer and victim. That the corpse should be displayed in an inn would be quite normal procedure at that time. That it would bleed when the murderer approached was a common popular belief, and witnesses might have persuaded themselves that they saw it happen, though it is (one hopes)
unlikely that such an observation would be admitted as 'proof' in a court of law. Live gibbeting, at this date, is surely impossible, while the theme of a robber unwittingly killing his own brother is known to be an international legend.
Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts By Jennifer Westwood
Old paper Jack White's Gibbet: the fiction and the facts (1922), orinally published in The Castle Cary Visitor, April 1898, as The Truth About Jack White's Gibbet Here
The Powerful Corpse
The medieval belief that the body of a murder victim would bleed if brought into the presence of its murderer was recognised until at least the seventeenth century.
Keith Thomas discusses two cases in 1613 and 1636, in Somerset and Lancashire respectively, where a person suspected of murder refused to come into the presence
of the corpse for fear that the corpse would indict them in this way (1971: 261). The Somerset man in fact confessed to murder ten years later, having been pursued by
the ghost of his victim (Thomas 1971: 714). Holt (1992: 74-6) describes the case of another Somerset man, Robert Sutton, who was murdered around 1729 or 1730.
His body was laid out in the church porch and the local clergy and magistrates stood beside it as all the men in the neighbourhood filed passed and each in turn laid a hand upon the corpse. When one of the men, Jack White, came past he
refused to touch the corpse and was subsequently tried and convicted of Sutton's murder for which he was hanged, although how dependent his conviction was on the mute testimony of the corpse is not clear from Holes account. A similar
account is (unreliably) recorded for Manningford Abbas in Wiltshire. In 1798 a man named Taylor Dyke was robbed and murdered near the Phoenix Inn. The following Sunday the rector of Pewsey, Rev. Joseph Townsend, made everyone file
out of the church past Dyke's body, and each in turn had to lay a hand on the corpse and swear their innocence of his murder. A man called Amor refused to swear and was subsequently charged and hanged (Wiltshire 1975: 138).
The belief in the power of the corpse to accuse its murderer was also known in Scotland. Napier (1976 [1879): 85) claims to have heard many instances adduced to prove the truth of bleeding taking place on the introduction of the murderer
Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain
and Ireland By Sarah Tarlow
Poem from A Book of Dark Poems
By Terry J Powell
Photos from Google map &
Music ~Kevin Macleod ~Clean Soul
Cellar Doors Book Trailer
On the outskirts of Willow, in the shadow of a frostbitten hillside, a pair of oak doors stand against the February cold. Doors that hide an ancient secret. A secret as old and decayed as the earth itself. And through the hollows, the lingering echo of children's laughter rises and falls in cryptic rhythm.
In the wake of a grisly string of deaths, a handful of souls become entangled in a
paranormal tale of lost hope, serial murder, and revenge. In their search for absolution, they find the line between the natural world, and the spiritually sinister, is easily blurred and often crossed.
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Capturing Somerset's History - Episode 2 of Somerset Roundtable
Capturing Somerset's History
We are proud to announce this week's guests, Ginny Troutman of Envisioning Somerset and an SBRHS art educator, and Mary Ann McDonald of the Somerset Historical Society.
The Envisioning Somerset project beautifully captures the history of Somerset, then and now, in a town-wide photo installation project. Listen and learn from Ginny and Mary Ann as they discuss and show the origins of the Envisioning Somerset project as well as significant pieces of Somerset's history itself. We've learned so much from them and thank them for sharing this exciting project!
Mission of the Somerset Roundtable: A platform that communicates and informs the citizens of Somerset while highlighting all things happening in town. Spin off of the Facebook page Positively Somerset. A showcase for the Town of Somerset. We will discuss current local events, issues and information.
Somerset buses october 2015.
Recorded at burnham on sea and at bridgwater,note I nearly got knocked down on the first clip.