Cornbury House interiors on iPlayer

Mon 2 Jan 2017, 08:26

The 2016 Christmas special edition of the Father Brown amateur detective series was largely shot in Cornbury House and around its deer park. Its interior scenes retain many of the Rotherwicks' family portraits.

First shown on BBC1 on Dec 23, it stays on iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08742hb/father-brown-series-5-1-the-star-of-jacob) till Jan 12.

The series relocates the early 20th century short stories by GK Chesterton to an early 1950s Cotswold village that the Reformation somehow passed by. It's mostly shot in Blockley and its (in the real world, solidly Anglican) medieval church.

The action in this Xmas edition is mainly in the ancestral home of the local Duke - modelled on the Norfolks rather than the Marlboroughs. Cornbury looks much nicer to live in than Blenheim or Arundel.

Perfect midwinter eye candy with a fire, a box of chocs and a couple of dogs.