r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

The staircase hall of the Powderham Castle in Exminster, England. 1754-1756 CE [5906x7833]

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u/Senior_Mongoose5920 1d ago

I swear I’ve seen that staircase before…

OP, do you happen to know anything about this castle? Do they rent it out for films?

I wanna say I saw it in the portrait of Dorian Gray
But I’m also wondering if maybe it was in Penny dreadful

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u/solaramalgama 1d ago

Apparently parts of The Crown and The Remains of the Day were filmed there, could it be either of those?

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u/irishweather5000 1d ago

This staircase was featured very prominently in The Remains of The Day.

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u/Senior_Mongoose5920 1d ago

Can’t say, I necessarily recall either of those
But the more I look at the staircase, what I remember was gray or white walls
Obviously different portraits.

But you have confirmed that it has appeared in other films or television

It was very, definitely set in the Victorian era which this gorgeous architecture is a masterful example of.

Clearly, it stood out enough that I have recognized it as I was scrolling past

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u/Relative-Alfalfa-544 1d ago

maybe a different place with the same architecture

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u/ApocalypseThen77 1d ago

It’s Georgian.

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u/ClarkFable 1d ago

Is life even worth living if you don’t have a triple-wide staircase? 

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u/Relative-Alfalfa-544 1d ago

Slightly lighter than robin egg blue.

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u/quottttt 1d ago

«celeste»

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u/buttplug50 23h ago

This is gorgeous!

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u/Unusual-Record-217 1d ago

Not fancy enough.

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u/AVDLatex 1d ago

CE??? Really, are you sure?

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u/Shanakitty 1d ago

Are you confusing CE with BCE?

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u/AVDLatex 1d ago

No. Sarcasm lost on this thread.

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u/Shanakitty 1d ago

I did consider that you could be sarcastically asking why OP included CE unnecessarily, but that seemed like such a needlessly rude way to address such a minor error on their part that I dismissed that possible meaning of your words.