Woman of Stone
Date: 2024
Director: Mark Gatiss
Production Company: Adorable Media, BBC Film
Stars: Celia Imrie, Monica Dolan, Éanna Hardwicke, Phoebe Horn, Mawaan Rizwan, Ryan Ellsworth, Ashley Jarvis
Location(s): Berkshire
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
A newly married couple move to a village where their superstitious housekeeper tells them that the marble effigies in the church come to life on Christmas Eve.
Additional Information:
Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson
An episode broadcast as part of the BBC’s ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ series which received a special screening at BFI Southbank
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Moving from London, Jack Lorimer (Éanna Hardwicke) unloads furniture into the cottage that he and his Wife have taken. Shottesbrooke Park in Berkshire.
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Dr. Zubin (Mawaan Rizwan) calls on the new arrivals. Facing the gateway to the lane outside St. John the Baptist church in Shottesbrooke Park.
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Sensing a problem between the newly weds, the Doctor shows them around the village. The church of St. John the Baptist in Shottesbrooke Park.
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Dr. Zubin takes Laura Lorimer (Phoebe Horn) and her jealous Husband around the church where, inside, she draws back when touching a marble effigy of an unknown Knight. The Grade 1 listed, 14th century St. John the Baptist church at Shottesbrooke between Twyford and Maidenhead.
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That evening, housekeeper Mrs. Dorman tells a tale explaining that the Knights' effigies in the church come to life at 11 o'clock on Christmas Eve and walk to the home where they found that their wives had been unfaithful all those years before. Shottesbrooke Park, as detailed in an interview with Mark Gatiss on the BBC Media Centre.
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As he cycles across the park, Dr. Zubin spots Mrs. Lorimer and joins her. Shottesbrooke Park with the pond to the left and St. John the Baptist church in the right background.
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Sitting in front of the cottage that stands on the site of the Knights' house, Mrs. Dorman (Monica Dolan) picks up a newspaper and reads about Jack Lorimer being hanged for Laura's murder. Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire.