'Old Mrs Burton'

'BENEDICTINE CELL AT DINTON'

There was once a Benedictine “cell” in Dinton, probably between the church and the present Phillips House. Old Mrs M. A. Burton lived most of her life at “The ‘Kennels” a cottage on the south side of Dinton Park.
For many years she worked as a maidservant for the Wyndhams at Phillips House, then called Dinton House. She died in the winter of 1959 at the age of 92.
She several times affirmed that she had often heard singing coming from a place, which she described as “between the church and Dinton House”. Mrs Burton was present at the burial of Mr Engleheart outside the private chapel at Little Clarendon, Dinton. When she heard the priest chanting the funeral mass, she turned round and said to a mourner standing by, “That is the music I heard within the park”. I believe Col Chettle cut a trench between Phillips (Dinton) House from the church and found some foundations and a holy water stoop (now in Little Clarendon private chapel).