Gossington Hall (Wherwell Priory), from the 1984 episode The Body in the Library
Gossington Hall is a large house in St. Mary Mead. It was the home of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry (they bought it when Colonel Bantry retired), and later Marina Gregg and Jason Rudd.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Bantry sold Gossington Hall and moved into the East Lodge. The new owners of Gossington Hall tried to run it as a guest house, but it failed. The second owners were four people who tried to turn the large house into four flats, but they had quarrelled too much. After that it was bought by the Ministry of Health to be used for some obscure purpose, but in the end they sold it instead. By that time it was bought by Marina Gregg, but some village gossip claimed that it had been bought by Charlie Chaplin to live there with all his children.
Gossington Hall as a setting for Christie's stories[]
- In The Body in the Library, Arthur Bantry discovers the dead body of an unknown young woman in his library.
- In The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, which takes place during the time when Marina Gregg and Jason Rudd were the owner/occupiers, several people are killed during the course of the story.
- In the authorized continuation short story Miss Marple's Christmas, set during the time of Dolly and Arther Bantry, Gossington Hall is the scene of a jewelry theft which takes place during Christmas.
Filming locations used for Gossington Hall[]
- In the 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd, St Clere Estate in Kent was used as Gossington Hall.
- In the 1984 adaptation of The Body in the Library, Wherwell Priory in Hampshire was used as Gossington Hall.
- In the 1992 adaptation of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Somerley Estate in Hampshire was used as Gossington Hall.
- In the 2004 adaptation of The Body in the Library, Dorney Court in Buckinghamshire was used as Gossington Hall.
- In the 2010 adaptation of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, North Mymms Park in Hertfordshire was used as Gossington Hall.