Sanvey Gate, Leicester
According to Elliott O’Donnell in his Haunted Churches (1939), a ‘ghost used to haunt a house in Sanvey Gate and also the immediate vicinity of St. Margaret’s church, but of this I have no details.’
I have come across a haunting reference to the old vicarage for St Margaret’s Church which has been demolished, so perhaps this was the ghost referred to above.
When I was little, I lived at the cobbler’s shop at 10, Sanvey Gate. We had a ghost in the roof, a place nobody could go. There was the original 2 up, 2 down dwelling, and my grandfather bought the blacksmith’s next door and the cafe behind, so we had a strangely shaped, large house. We had a slate yard, which could be seen until recently. I was friends with the verger’s son at the vicarage, which used to be the official domicile of the Bishop of Lincoln before Leicester became a cathedral city. There were certainly ghosts there, often seen, more often heard.