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(A Man For All Seasons location, Studley Priory)  

Thomas More's cinematic home: Studley Priory

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS filming locations


CREDITS
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, 1966
dir: Fred Zinnemann

Paul Scofield
Robert Shaw
Leo McKern
John Hurt
Wendy Hiller
Orson Welles
Susannah York
Wendy Hiller
Vanessa Redgrave
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s. And if you cut them down, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!

Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Robert Bolt’s play isn't exactly cutting-edge cinema, but it's intelligent and, naturally, well-acted – grabbing six Oscars, including Best Film and Best Direction, as well as Best Actor for Paul Scofield.

Scofield plays Sir Thomas More, confidante of King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), facing a crisis conscience over the King's determination to divorce Catherine of Aragon.

Despite what guide books may claim, there was no filming at Hampton Court – the palace of Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles), seen in the film, is no more than a set.

When Wolsey fell from grace, the palace passed to Henry VIII. You can visit the real Hampton Court Palace at East Molesey in Surrey (rail: Kingston-upon-Thames).

Thomas Moreís house on the Thames at ‘Chelsea’, however, is real. It’s Studley Priory, Horton Hill, Horton-Cum-Studley, about seven miles northeast of Oxford. A one-time Benedictine monastery, more recently a hotel, the priory was sold in 2004 and is now a private home,

The ‘Thames’ is the River Beaulieu, flowing through the estate of Beaulieu Abbey, on the B3504, south of Southampton in Hampshire. The river wall built alongside was reproduced at Studley Priory, allowing characters to leap across counties in one bound!


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FILMING LOCATIONS FOR A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Oxfordshire
Hampshire
 
TRAVEL


Oxford: (rail: Oxford, from London Marylebone)

History of Studley Priory

Visit the real Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey in Surrey (tel: 0870.752.7777) (rail: Hampton Court, from London Waterloo)
 
ASSOCIATED FILMS


See the real Hampton Court in To Kill A King, The Libertine, with Johnny Depp, and Terence Malick's The New World

 

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