Post by kurt on Sept 17, 2004 18:10:16 GMT
Location:
Eastbury Manor House.
Eastbury Square.
Barking.
IG11 9SN.
[glow=red,2,300]The ghost girl...[/glow]
Eastbury Manor House is reputed to be haunted by a ghost of a young female child who is only usually seen by other children or women.
A History of Eastbury Manor House
The Sysley Family
Eastbury Manor House has a complex history of ownership, tenancy and usage.
The man generally believed to have built the impressive residence in the sixteenth century was Clement Sysley, a prosperous merchant in the City of London.
He purchased the Eastbury Estate in May 1557, and by 1560 had taken up residency in Barking Parish. By 1574, Sysley was referring to his new home as 'Estbery Hall'.
Clement Sysley was the son of Richard Sysley of Sevenoaks who was a descendent of the Sysleys of Founteynes in Yorkshire.
Clement was a wealthy merchant with lands in the surrounding area including in East Ham. Of his three wives, Frances Fleming, Mandley Chambley and Anne Argall, only Mandley and Anne could have had any association with Eastbury.
Clement had eleven children but as far as we can tell only three reached maturity.
Anne brought connections with the Argall family of Walthamstow and outlived Clement, who died in 1578, by thirty two years. He bequeathed the manor to his wife Anne, for life, with reversion to their son, Thomas.
Anne subsequently married Augustine Steward and Thomas Sysley became his ward.
In 1592 Thomas granted a 500 year lease of Eastbury to his stepbrother, Augustine Steward the younger, ending the Sysley family connection with Eastbury.
The name survives in nearby Sisley Road, on a municipal housing development built after the First World War.
The house was originally in an isolated position surrounded by marshland. In the early 1600s it attracted rich Catholic families who could practice their banned religion there in safety.
Later tenants were yeoman farmers of a much lower class, and butchers and graziers attracted by the pasture grazing and the rich London market.
The house was gradually neglected and fell into decay until 1918 when it was restored by the National Trust.
Today the building stands in 1.5 acres including a walled garden. It is owned by the National Trust and managed by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Links with Guy Fawkes…
The novelist, Daniel Defoe, passed through Barking some time before 1772 and he recorded his impression of Eastbury House in a publication describing his 'Tour throughout the whole island of Great Britain:'
'A little beyond the town, on the road to Dagenham, stood a great house, ancient, and now almost fallen down, where tradition says the Gunpowder Treason Plot was at first contriv'd, and that all the first consultations about it were held there.'
The possible link with Eastbury House could have been Lord Monteagle, who may have lived there. He was a Catholic peer in the House of Lords during the reign of Protestant King James I.
Monteagle's brother-in-law was one of the men who were plotting to blow up Parliament.
Lord Monteagle was warned about the plot and rushed to inform the King. Barrels of gunpowder were found in Parliament's cellars and Guy Fawkes was arrested.
A History of Eastbury Manor House: Origins
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this imposing residence was built on rural Eastbury Manor land.
Eastbury was one of several manors in the Barking, Dagenham and Ilford areas which belonged to Barking Abbey. Together this land formed the Manor of Barking, once the largest estate in Essex.
According to St.Bede, the first Barking Abbey was founded by St. Erkenwald in AD 666 for his sister St. Ethelburga, so settlement on the manor estates developed from Saxon times.
The Manor of Eastbury was a demesne tenement of the rich and powerful Benedictine nunnery, This means that income from the farming estate, in both cash and kind, was used for general housekeeping purposes in this major religious institution. The accounts were administered by the cellaress on behalf of the Abbess.
A house of some kind occupied the site before the destruction of Barking Abbey in 1541, as rent was being paid to King Henry VIII, who was Lord of the Manor of Barking.
The precise date of construction of the present Eastbury House is uncertain. Building work is believed to have taken place after the dissolution of the monasteries, when the land was privately owned.
The architectural expert, Sir Nicholas Pevsner, believed that various distinctive features were characteristic of the 1550s. The earliest dated items, such as a lead rainwater hopper head, were produced in the 1570s. This supports the idea that the traditional construction of large Tudor houses took several years to complete.
Eastbury House was originally designed as the country residence of a wealthy London merchant, otherwise known as a 'gentry house'. Until the eighteenth century, it was known as Eastbury Hall, to reflect its secular nature.
The building retains the majority of its Elizabethan appearance on the outside, as it was never extended.
Timber Analysis:
Dendrochronological analysis of twelve timbers from the roof of Eastbury House, undertaken by English Heritage in 1997, produced a tree-ring chronology for the period AD 1250-1565.
The timbers used in the building were felled in the spring of AD 1566.Source: English Heritage tree ring analysis
All the obove text and photographic images are the copyright of:
Civic Centre. Dagenham. Essex. RM10 7BN.
Eastbury Manor House.
Eastbury Square.
Barking.
IG11 9SN.
[glow=red,2,300]The ghost girl...[/glow]
Eastbury Manor House is reputed to be haunted by a ghost of a young female child who is only usually seen by other children or women.
A History of Eastbury Manor House
The Sysley Family
Eastbury Manor House has a complex history of ownership, tenancy and usage.
The man generally believed to have built the impressive residence in the sixteenth century was Clement Sysley, a prosperous merchant in the City of London.
He purchased the Eastbury Estate in May 1557, and by 1560 had taken up residency in Barking Parish. By 1574, Sysley was referring to his new home as 'Estbery Hall'.
Clement Sysley was the son of Richard Sysley of Sevenoaks who was a descendent of the Sysleys of Founteynes in Yorkshire.
Clement was a wealthy merchant with lands in the surrounding area including in East Ham. Of his three wives, Frances Fleming, Mandley Chambley and Anne Argall, only Mandley and Anne could have had any association with Eastbury.
Clement had eleven children but as far as we can tell only three reached maturity.
Anne brought connections with the Argall family of Walthamstow and outlived Clement, who died in 1578, by thirty two years. He bequeathed the manor to his wife Anne, for life, with reversion to their son, Thomas.
Anne subsequently married Augustine Steward and Thomas Sysley became his ward.
In 1592 Thomas granted a 500 year lease of Eastbury to his stepbrother, Augustine Steward the younger, ending the Sysley family connection with Eastbury.
The name survives in nearby Sisley Road, on a municipal housing development built after the First World War.
The house was originally in an isolated position surrounded by marshland. In the early 1600s it attracted rich Catholic families who could practice their banned religion there in safety.
Later tenants were yeoman farmers of a much lower class, and butchers and graziers attracted by the pasture grazing and the rich London market.
The house was gradually neglected and fell into decay until 1918 when it was restored by the National Trust.
Today the building stands in 1.5 acres including a walled garden. It is owned by the National Trust and managed by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Links with Guy Fawkes…
The novelist, Daniel Defoe, passed through Barking some time before 1772 and he recorded his impression of Eastbury House in a publication describing his 'Tour throughout the whole island of Great Britain:'
'A little beyond the town, on the road to Dagenham, stood a great house, ancient, and now almost fallen down, where tradition says the Gunpowder Treason Plot was at first contriv'd, and that all the first consultations about it were held there.'
The possible link with Eastbury House could have been Lord Monteagle, who may have lived there. He was a Catholic peer in the House of Lords during the reign of Protestant King James I.
Monteagle's brother-in-law was one of the men who were plotting to blow up Parliament.
Lord Monteagle was warned about the plot and rushed to inform the King. Barrels of gunpowder were found in Parliament's cellars and Guy Fawkes was arrested.
A History of Eastbury Manor House: Origins
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this imposing residence was built on rural Eastbury Manor land.
Eastbury was one of several manors in the Barking, Dagenham and Ilford areas which belonged to Barking Abbey. Together this land formed the Manor of Barking, once the largest estate in Essex.
According to St.Bede, the first Barking Abbey was founded by St. Erkenwald in AD 666 for his sister St. Ethelburga, so settlement on the manor estates developed from Saxon times.
The Manor of Eastbury was a demesne tenement of the rich and powerful Benedictine nunnery, This means that income from the farming estate, in both cash and kind, was used for general housekeeping purposes in this major religious institution. The accounts were administered by the cellaress on behalf of the Abbess.
A house of some kind occupied the site before the destruction of Barking Abbey in 1541, as rent was being paid to King Henry VIII, who was Lord of the Manor of Barking.
The precise date of construction of the present Eastbury House is uncertain. Building work is believed to have taken place after the dissolution of the monasteries, when the land was privately owned.
The architectural expert, Sir Nicholas Pevsner, believed that various distinctive features were characteristic of the 1550s. The earliest dated items, such as a lead rainwater hopper head, were produced in the 1570s. This supports the idea that the traditional construction of large Tudor houses took several years to complete.
Eastbury House was originally designed as the country residence of a wealthy London merchant, otherwise known as a 'gentry house'. Until the eighteenth century, it was known as Eastbury Hall, to reflect its secular nature.
The building retains the majority of its Elizabethan appearance on the outside, as it was never extended.
Timber Analysis:
Dendrochronological analysis of twelve timbers from the roof of Eastbury House, undertaken by English Heritage in 1997, produced a tree-ring chronology for the period AD 1250-1565.
The timbers used in the building were felled in the spring of AD 1566.Source: English Heritage tree ring analysis
All the obove text and photographic images are the copyright of:
Civic Centre. Dagenham. Essex. RM10 7BN.
