Ghostly Nun of Borley Rectory is a painting by Barbara Barber which was uploaded on March 27th, 2011.
Ghostly Nun of Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory was said to be the most haunted house in England, as so the book by the same name written by Harry Price says. The rectory was built... more
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Ghostly Nun of Borley Rectory
Artist
Barbara Barber
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
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Borley Rectory was said to be the most haunted house in England, as so the book by the same name written by Harry Price says. The rectory was built by the Rev. Henry Bull in 1863 Essex, to house himself, his wife and their 14 children. The rectory burned down in a mysterious fire in 1939.
It's thought that the rectory was destined to be a haunted house from the start due to the events that had occurred on the site many centuries before.The foundation was an old Priory on land that contained a 12th century Church. A.C. Henning, the rector in 1936, discovered that the Doomsday Book told of a Borley Manor prior to 1066, so he concluded a wooden church was probably also built around that time. The foundations contained underground tunnels and a complex of vault rooms.
The most popular story to the background of Borley was that in 1362 Benedictine Monks built a monastery on the site which would later hold the rectory. Legend told of a nun from the Bures convent, 7 miles southeast of Borley falling in love with a monk from the monastery. They had decided to elope to be together, but the elders discovered their plans. A friend of the monk was to drive a carriage to help them escape. On the fateful night they were captured by the elders. The coachman was beheaded, the monk hanged and the nun was bricked up alive in the walls of the vaults beneath the rectory. Her ghost has haunted the site ever since, seen in front of the rectory during the time of its existance and on the grounds behind it. There was a path where she walked named 'nuns walk' after she had been seen so often.
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