“The bricked-up fourteenth-century “doors of the dead” are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims – bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.”

“The bricked-up fourteenth-century “doors of the dead” are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims – bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.”

— Frances Mayes