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The church at Minster Lovell is very beautiful, and when my late husband and I went there about twenty years ago, it was on a very misty morning. As we walked toward the church, on the way to the ruined hall, I saw a solitary candle burning in one of the church’s latticed windows. It was a large cream candle, with a steady flame that (to me, from my height) was framed precisely in one of the lattices. The effect was haunting, but in the most breathtaking way. I didn’t think of ghosts. Unfortunately, the photograph I took wasn’t very good.

However, going around the church to the ruins of Minster Lovell Hall means immediate thoughts of ghosts. Especially that of the man who’d been walled up, and who could have been Francis Lovell, Richard III’s friend and supporter. The thought of anyone being walled up alive is truly dreadful.

The photograph below was taken on the same misty morning, albeit at the end of our visit, when the mist had begun to rise.

There are many more ghosts and creepy things in Minster Lovell, as you will read here although whether or not it’s the most haunted place in the Cotswolds I really don’t know. The hills of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire seem to attract many a spook.