Location Of Church In Haunters Of The Deep (1984)

[billy farmer]

I wondered if anyone knows the location of the Church that was featured in the CFF Film Haunters Of The Deep (1984), below are some screencaps from Haunters Of The Deep featuring the Church (where the character of Billy Bray was buried), i would be very grateful to anyone who could help me find the location of the Church which featured in Haunters Of The Deep.





The Cornish Village of Portloe was used to represent the Village where the character of Josh Holman (played by Gary Simmons) lived with his family in Haunters Of The Deep, the cottage where the character of Captain Tregellis (played by Andrew Keir) lived in Haunters Of The Deep was also in the Cornish Village of Portloe.

[billy farmer]

I wondered if anyone knows the location of the Church that was featured in the CFF Film Haunters Of The Deep (1984), below are some screencaps from Haunters Of The Deep featuring the Church (where the character of Billy Bray was buried), i would be very grateful to anyone who could help me find the location of the Church which featured in Haunters Of The Deep.

Has anyone got any idea.

[ghughesarch]

I'm finding it far more difficult than I'd thought. It's obviously a Victorian church, not a mediaeval one, in the Early English style, with a crossing tower which has blind arcading, and no clerestoreys but unbroken roofs which suggests no aisles. The problem is that although those are all distinctive features, I can't find any church in Cornwall or Devon that quite matches it. (I'm assuming all the other location filming was done in the south west, so there should be no reason for the crew to up sticks to somewhere further afield just for a churchyard).
Are there any other views which show a bit more context?

[billy farmer]

I'm finding it far more difficult than I'd thought. It's obviously a Victorian church, not a mediaeval one, in the Early English style, with a crossing tower which has blind arcading, and no clerestoreys but unbroken roofs which suggests no aisles. The problem is that although those are all distinctive features, I can't find any church in Cornwall or Devon that quite matches it. (I'm assuming all the other location filming was done in the south west, so there should be no reason for the crew to up sticks to somewhere further afield just for a churchyard).
Are there any other views which show a bit more context?

The two screencaps which you can see in post 1 are the best views of the Church that i was able to do screencaps of, i have thought that maybe the Church might not be far from the Cornish Village of Portloe (which was used to represent the Village that appeared in Haunters Of The Deep).

[carryonconfidential]

You may want to drop the webmaster of The Churches of Britain and Ireland a line about this one. I was having a devil of a job trying to locate the church Kenneth Williams lands on in CO Emmannuelle and the nice people at that site found it for me in less than 48 hours!

[billy farmer]

You may want to drop the webmaster of The Churches of Britain and Ireland a line about this one. I was having a devil of a job trying to locate the church Kenneth Williams lands on in CO Emmannuelle and the nice people at that site found it for me in less than 48 hours!

Thank you carryonconfidential, i sent an email to an email address that was provided on the site you suggested, the two screencaps i did of the Church from Haunters Of The Deep are now on the site (that you provided in the link), hopefully it won't be long before the Church is identified.

[SainT]

Hi Billy,

Yesterday, I looked your query in Churches of Britain and Ireland website.

First of all, I'm asking the mods do NOT close my BritMovie account.
But for my health reasons, I'm not active anymore with my location discoveries in BritMovie forum.
It is much better for my health to participate in location hunting on other web forms than forums, because the online thing is causing a huge nerve problems.

When I quit with my location discoveries in BritMovie forum last February, I found Churches of Britain and Ireland website. Now I'm a regular contributor in this website and you can see my credits for the unknown churches.
Because of these matters, a website like Churches of Britain and Ireland suits me much better and the reason is that it gives a opportunity for the same church query more than one person to be involved of the identification credits.

Yesterday, when I looked the church query, I realised it must be from some BritMovie location hunter. I found that the church query is from you Billy.
If you remember on 21 December 2010, I discovered the location from Location Of Village In Vanity Dies Hard - The Ruth Rendell Mysteries after 34 minutes from your query!
Because you send your church query in Churches of Britain and Ireland website, I decided to reply here in BritMovie forum. That is the only reason.

I want to inform you that couple of hours before I'm writing this text, I discovered the church featured in the CFF film Haunters of the Deep (1984).

The church is not in CORNWALL, but in SURREY!!!

The church is:
Church of Holy Trinity
Lyne Lane
Botleys and Lyne
Surrey
KT16 0AJ



SURREY PLACES OF WORSHIP: Holy Trinity Church, Lyne Lane, Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey
GEOGRAPH: Holy Trinity Church, Botleys and Lyne, Chertsey
GEOGRAPH: Holy Trinity, Lyne



Very best wishes,
Greg Mishevski
(doing all the location work from Macedonia).

[mariocki]

Well done Greg - good to see you're still around.

[billy farmer]

Thank you very much SainT, and also thank you for the links, i wonder why they decided to film at a Church so far from Cornwall.

I can remember you identifying the Village which featured in the story Vanity Dies Hard (1995) from the ITV series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.