#avignette

[tacochippy]

@mhep24601 me when i want avignette or perhaps a ramble of sorts

cool story bro. i really really liked it. can you tell me nother one?

[aniketosomina]

A small pilgrimage, of sorts, to Great Livermere, childhood home of the great ghost story writer, Montague Rhodes James, and the inspiration for two of his most unnerving tales, The Ash Tree and A Vignette. The rectory where he lived is now confusingly called Livermere Hall (the original Livermere Hall, a short distance away, was demolished in 1923) and is used for accommodation during shooting weekends; a fair amount of to-ings and fro-ings in front of the house with cars coming and going made me a little shy of venturing up the drive, so I settled for a glimpse over the wall through the thick summer foliage instead. The path past the rectory curves off and leads through the park gates of the old Livermere Hall. This was the inspiration for Castringham Hall in The Ash Tree, a tale of witchcraft and vengeance, of Mrs Mothersole and her creeping brood of freakishly large arachnids. The only thing surviving from the old Hall now is the garden wall, with a door that put me in mind of Monty's retelling in A Vignette of how, as a boy, he once saw a malevolent face staring fixedly at him through a "close gate of split oak with a square hole cut in to it", with eyes that were "large and open and fixed... it undoubtedly has had some formidable power of clinging through many years to my imagination. I feel that even now I should be circumspect in passing that Plantation gate." And of course St Peter's church, where Monty's father was rector, with its commemorative plaque and its many Mothersole family gravestones. Great Livermere is reputedly one of the most haunted parishes in England; on a gusty overcast day with intermittent squalls of rain that plunged the sky into near-darkness and deepened the shadows in the churchyard, I can believe it. #greatlivermere #mrjames #montaguerhodesjames #livermerehall #castringhamhall #theashtree #avignette #ghoststories #suffolk #villagechurch #churchyard #vanishedestates #lostcountryhouses #topography #psychogeography #hauntings #folklore #suffolk #thedoorinthewall #eastanglia #hauntedengland #wheretheveilisthin #summer2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B27C2wKHAj8/?igshid=1kdqi2oar49zv