GHOSTS IN AND AROUND THE CHURCH

With all the alleged haunting across the road at the Rectory, surely it would be unreasonable to expect there to be even more at the church, but this is where one would be wrong.

The legendary nun has been seen several times in the churchyard, also the ghost believed to be that of a teenaged girl dressed in blue. Some people have also claimed to have seen a veiled woman near to the church, whether she and the nun are one and the same it is difficult to be sure.

Inside the church itself, there are areas which have the reputation of suddenly becoming ‘cold’ and with a feeling of ‘tension’ around them. There is a story of a young boy who, with his parents, was visiting the church. As they were walking up the aisle, the boy suddenly stood rigidly still as if frozen to the spot, stared straight ahead wide eyed and after what seemed an age, he burst into tears and ran from the church. His parents tried to get him to explain what had happened, but all he would say was "so cold".

There have been reports of people hearing the organ being played when there has been no organist present and at other times when the church has been locked. Odd sounds have often been heard within and reports of ghostly figures having been seen for split seconds.

In 1980, two psychic investigators were sitting quietly in the church, when suddenly they both saw the figure of a tall man dressed in black old-fashioned clothes manifest and slowly walk along the aisle. They decided to try to find out who he might have been. After months of research they came to the conclusion that he was John Deeks, the vicar at the time of Cromwell.

The same researchers believe that the two nuns often seen in the vicinity of the church could well be Arabella Waldegrave and her mother Henrietta. Henrietta died in 1730 whilst working as a spy for the then Government and was buried at Langenhoe. Arabella was murdered in 1697 spying for the Stuarts, the opposite side to her mother. The whereabouts of her grave is not known, but it seems that their spirits are now re-united and have returned to the family church.