Cultural References
In 1969, Compton Wynyates appeared in the film Carry On Camping as a monastery.
In 1977, Compton Wynyates served as a filming location for Disney's Candleshoe, starring Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster and David Niven.
The facade of Compton Wynyates was used briefly at the beginning of the 1978 film Death on the Nile, as the new country home of the heiress Linnet Ridgeway.
Compton Wynyates was also used in the opening sequence of the 1980s television show, Silver Spoons as the Stratton mansion.
Compton Wynyates also plays a central role in the second narrative of Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998).
Compton Wynyates is also featured at the beginning of the Miss Marple film The Mirror Crack'd (1980), with Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Kim Novak.
The facade of Compton Wynates appears in two episodes of the first series of the television series The Tudors, providing a backdrop to fictionalised incidents in the life of William Compton, friend of Henry VIII.
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