Top five National Trust locations for Wolf Hall
The National Trust has produced a map of key locations used for the filming of Wolf Hall, the BBC series based on the novels of Hilary Mantel.
The Wolf Hall map can be downloaded from the National Trust website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355870235583/ and as well as NT properties it also includes privately-owned Historic Houses Association sites and others cared for by English Heritage and Cadw, the Welsh heritage organisation.
There are five National Trust properties that feature in the period drama, about Henry VIII and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell.
They were transformed for the six-part TV series into the homes of Cromwell and his mentor Cardinal Wolsey, as well as Henry VIII, doubling as York Place/Whitehall, Greenwich Palace and Wolf Hall itself.
“The National Trust has been very supportive and around 40 per cent of our overall shoots have been at Trust places,” said producer Mark Pybus.
“It will be a big part of the overall programme, the locations that people see,” he said, and added that using real historic buildings and their gardens helped the cast.
The National Trust has been very supportive and around 40 per cent of our overall shoots have been at Trust places
Montacute House in Somerset plays the part of Henry VIII’s London home, Greenwich Palace with the Elizabethan mansion’s gardens and grounds providing a realistic backdrop to jousting sequences.
Barrington Court, also in Somerset, was used as both Wolf Hall and Cardinal Wolsey’s home York Place/Whitehall.
One of the most recognisable rooms in the Tudor manor house, which was restored in the 1920s, is the Long Gallery.
Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire was used as the exterior of Wolf Hall, the Seymour family seat, and its medieval cloisters were used for the interiors.
It provided the setting for Henry VIII’s bedroom and a banquet room at his lodgings in Calais.
Henry VIII actually sold the 13th century former Augustinian nunnery to Sir William Sharington after the Reformation, when it was converted into a home.
Great Chalford Manor and Garden, a moated manor house from the 15th century, also in Wiltshire, stood in for Thomas Cromwell’s home Austin Friars.
It has previously been used in The Other Bolyn Girl, Lark Rise To Candleford and Tess Of The D’Urbervilles.
Chastleton House in Oxfordshire was also used as the interior of Wolf Hall, and the small stone courtyard was the scene of Cromwell’s childhood bullying by his blacksmith father in Putney, south west London.
The house was built by a wealthy wool merchant between 1607 and 1612, and has remained relatively unchanged for nearly 400 years.
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