Saoirse Ronan and James McAvoy in Atonement courtesy Focus Features
The Atonement house mysterious movies and an actor after more than fame Ask FlickChick Question This may sound shallow but after seeing the movie Atonement which I thought was really good and moving the thing I keep thinking about is the house Is it a real place and if so can you tell me anything about it SethFlickChick Tallis House the site of the terrible family betrayal in Atonement is a real house and the filmmakers shot both interiors and exteriors there This is often not the case Crews frequently use the exterior of one place and either build sets for the interiors or shoot them someplace else The house is Stokesay Court which stands on 1000 acres in Shropshire some three hours north of London it was built in 1891 in whats called the Jacobethan style which combined elements of English Renaissance Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture The style is often dismissed as vulgar and ugly in part because it was favored by newly minted mil
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