"IF WINTER COMES."
In "If Winter Comes," A. S. M. Hutchinson states that the building occupied by Fortune, East and Sabre, stood inside "The Precincts,'' as the space surrounding a cathedral is called. To make the atmosphere realistic in the William Fox screen version of the novel, which will have its first showing at the Grand Theatre on Saturday, Harry Millarde, who directed the picture, selected none other than Canterbury Cathedral.
Standing on the site where St. Augustine built his church in 597, Canterbury Cathedral is among the most famous religious edifices in England. It was the scene of the murder of Archbishop Becket in 1170, and has been the shrine of devout pilgrims since the days when Chaucer celebrated in song a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The main entrance to the precinct 3 of Canterbury Cathedral is through an ornate gateway at the southwest, called. Christ Church Gateway, and built by Prior Goldstone in 1517. Another building in Canterbury that was utilised in the making of "If "Winter Comes" was the public library. This characteristically English structure was made to do duty as the exterior of the office building of Fortune, East and Sabre.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 12
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