High Place Hall, Casterbridge

High Place Hall, Casterbridge

Source of photograph: The Mayor of Casterbridge in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 158

High Place Hall, which Lucetta Templeman leases, was apparently drawn from Colliton House, Dorchester. 'The Hall, with its gray facade and parapet. . . was entirely of stone . . . its rooms overlooked the market-place.' An interesting and curious feature is the bricked-up doorway in the wall and the mask which adorns the keystone [now on display in the Dorset County Museum on the main floor is the entire wall, saved when the house was torn down].

[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].

References

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Story of a Man of Character. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.


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