Post by Spooky on Mar 16, 2005 14:54:26 GMT
Another future investigation for PT
Michelham Priory was built in 1229, on the site of a former Saxon manor house and was the home of Augustinian Canons until the Dissolution in 1536, when it passed through several hands, until 1587, when it was bought by Herbert Pelham. Herbert Pelham added a Tudor wing and restored the old building, but in doing so he spent all his money and was forced to sell to Thomas Sackville in 1601, and the Priory was to remain in the hands of the Sackville Family until 1897, in the later years the property being leased to tenant farmers.
In 1897, the property was bought by the Gwynne Family and this made the then tenant farmer angry enough to threaten to kill the new owners, because he thought that the sale would mean him having to be evicted. However, there was no eviction and no murder, but a phantom white horse has been seen several times riding through the gatehouse, and this was the horse used by Rupert Gwynne when he visited the tenant farmer in 1897, when there was big argument, the horse returning to the Gwynne household riderless and Rupert Gwynne having to walk home.
The figure of a lady in a grey gown, believed to be one of the Sackville Family, has been seen several times at Michelham, in the area around the gatehouse. On one occasion, in 1970, she must have appeared that real that she was actually turned away because she was leading a dog and dogs were not allowed there.
The most famous sighting of ghosts at Michelham Priory is that in 1969, when two young visitors were reading a notice on a wall when they saw the figure of a man, wearing a black cloak, slowly walking diagonally from the ceiling to the floor, as if descending invisible stairs, and then gliding through a doorway. Already completely amazed, it is possible to imagine their reaction when, just a few seconds later, the phantom of a lady, dressed in a bluish-grey Elizabethan dress, ran past them in complete silence, obviously in pursuit of the black-cloaked figure. This second phantom, the woman in Elizabethan dress, has been seen several times in the hall.
Before certain alterations were made to the Priory in Tudor times, there used to be a staircase in that room, which led from an old Mediaeval kitchen.
Michelham Priory was built in 1229, on the site of a former Saxon manor house and was the home of Augustinian Canons until the Dissolution in 1536, when it passed through several hands, until 1587, when it was bought by Herbert Pelham. Herbert Pelham added a Tudor wing and restored the old building, but in doing so he spent all his money and was forced to sell to Thomas Sackville in 1601, and the Priory was to remain in the hands of the Sackville Family until 1897, in the later years the property being leased to tenant farmers.
In 1897, the property was bought by the Gwynne Family and this made the then tenant farmer angry enough to threaten to kill the new owners, because he thought that the sale would mean him having to be evicted. However, there was no eviction and no murder, but a phantom white horse has been seen several times riding through the gatehouse, and this was the horse used by Rupert Gwynne when he visited the tenant farmer in 1897, when there was big argument, the horse returning to the Gwynne household riderless and Rupert Gwynne having to walk home.
The figure of a lady in a grey gown, believed to be one of the Sackville Family, has been seen several times at Michelham, in the area around the gatehouse. On one occasion, in 1970, she must have appeared that real that she was actually turned away because she was leading a dog and dogs were not allowed there.
The most famous sighting of ghosts at Michelham Priory is that in 1969, when two young visitors were reading a notice on a wall when they saw the figure of a man, wearing a black cloak, slowly walking diagonally from the ceiling to the floor, as if descending invisible stairs, and then gliding through a doorway. Already completely amazed, it is possible to imagine their reaction when, just a few seconds later, the phantom of a lady, dressed in a bluish-grey Elizabethan dress, ran past them in complete silence, obviously in pursuit of the black-cloaked figure. This second phantom, the woman in Elizabethan dress, has been seen several times in the hall.
Before certain alterations were made to the Priory in Tudor times, there used to be a staircase in that room, which led from an old Mediaeval kitchen.
