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Lord
Risley gets into trouble: The Black Friar, EC4
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MAURICE
filming locations
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CREDITS
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England
has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Flushed with the success of A
Room With a View, the Merchant-Ivory
team turned another EM Forster book, the posthumously
published gay novel Maurice, into a lush Mills
and Boon romancer.
The Cambridge scenes were actually filmed at Forsters
old University. Exterior shots are of Trinity
College, Cambridge, at the Quad
and under the Wren Library.
The Gothic William IV Porters
Lodge can be seen at Kings
College, where the Latin grace was also filmed,
in the Dining Hall.
The punt trip is on the River
Cam at Clare Bridge,
and the romantic scene between Maurice Hall (James
Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh
Grant) in the field is near Ely
in Cambridgeshire.
Clives country house, where Maurice attracts the
attention of groundsman Alec Scudder (Rupert
Graves), is Wilbury Park,
Newton Toney, a private house owned by actress
Maria St Juste, on the A338 halfway between Andover
and Salisbury, Wiltshire.
The boathouse in the grounds where they meet up is,
however, in the grounds of Crichel
in Dorset.
In London,
Maurice bumps into his old schoolmaster (Simon
Callow) by the Assyrian statues in the British
Museum, Bloomsbury.
The marvellous art-nouveau drinking den, where Maurice
and Clive's aristocratic pal Lord Risley runs into problems
when he tries to indulge his taste for the military,
is the Black
Friar, 174 Queen Victoria
Street, EC4, just across the road from Blackfriars
railway station.
The Black Friar
is a real gem. Sitting on a small triangular plot at
the northern end of Blackfriars
Bridge, it's a Victorian pub, built on the
site of the Dominican Priory which gave its name to
the area. The interior is a delirious fantasy of coloured
marble, with copper bas-reliefs of industrious monks,
admonishing the drinkers with stern little homilies:
"Finery is foolery", "Haste is slow".
It can get a bit crowded with the after-office crowd:
best to visit on a quiet afternoon, or check out its
unique architecture.
Clives London home is the Linley
Sambourne House, 18 Stafford
Terrace, just off High Street Kensington,
W8 (which previously featured as Daniel
Day-Lewis's home in A
Room With a View).
The family meal, before Clive sets off for the Continent,
is in the extravagantly gilt Grill
Room of the Café
Royal, 68 Regent Street, W1. Opened in 1865,
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw dined here. It's
where Jack Hawkins assembles his crew in the 1960 caper
The League of Gentlemen,
and where Rupert
Graves celebrates his new post in Louis Malle's
1992 melodrama Damage.
Clive's European travels take him to a 'Grecian' amphitheatre,
actually at Segesta,
near Castellammare in northwest
Sicily.
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Maurice
catches up with Scudder: historic Gloucester
Docks
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While Clive settles for conventional married life, there's
a happy, if unlikely, ending for Maurice. The docks,
where he just manages to reach Scudder before he emigrates,
are the historic Gloucester
Docks on the Severn.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR MAURICE
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TRAVEL
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London:
The Black
Friar, 174 Queen Victoria
Street, EC4 (tel: 020.7236.5474)
(tube: Blackfriars, Circle and District Lines)
Built in 1875 on the site of the Dominican priory
that gave the area its name, what makes the pub such
a treasure is that, in 1902, the pub was given a makeover
that is, frankly, high camp. The gilt and marble interior
is overlaid with bronze art nouveau friezes depicting
piously industrious monks. Take note that the City
becomes a ghost town at weekends and few, if any,
pubs open.
The Linley
Sambourne House, 18 Stafford
Terrace, just off High Street Kensington,
W8 (tube: High Street Kensington, District and
Circle Lines). A perfectly preserved Victorian
townhouse built in 1874, with its original furniture
and fittings intact. Once home of cartoonist Edward
Linley Sambourne, its now owned and maintained
by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The
house was closed for major renovation work in 1999
but reopened in April 2003.
The Grill
Room of the Café
Royal, 68 Regent Street, W1 (tel: 020.7439.1865)
(tube: Piccadilly Circus, Piccadilly and Bakerloo
Lines)
Cambridgeshire: Rail:
Cambridge, from London King's Cross or Liverpool Street
Visit
Cambridge
University
of Cambridge: Visitors' information
Gloucestershire: historic
Gloucester
Docks, Gloucester (admission free; tel:
01452.311190) (rail: Gloucester from London
Paddington)
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