Netflix’s ‘Narnia’ Filming Inside 900-Year-Old Anglican Church in London
NarniaWeb has learned that St. Bartholomew the Great, a 900-year-old Anglican Church in London, has been serving as a filming location for Netflix and Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. Production has reportedly been taking place over the past week.
According to the church’s official website, St. Bartholomew’s has been closed to the public since September 9th and is scheduled to reopen on September 18th. At this time, it is not known which scenes are being filmed.
The historic church has appeared in several major films, including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Snow White and the Huntsman, 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, and Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace.
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If it weren’t for the brighter and more Roman-esque design elements of Jadis’ costume, I’d be absolutely certain this is for Charn.
The vibe is just spot-on for what I imagined Charn looking like in the book. However I guess it’s always possible that the church is being used as an actual church in the movie!
Please be Charn, please be Charn!!
It does remind me a lot of Pauline Bayne’s illustrations of Charn (especially the image of Digory and Polly standing as small figures in the courtyard when they first arrive in Charn). I too hope it’s Charn!
Everyone is saying it’s Charn!
It’ll be fascinating to hear whether they are using 65mm to shoot some select sequences because the reels of film in the behind the scenes are all vertical
Maybe it’s NOT Charn!
Considering two things.
1. They have done a lot of on-site filming in London for MN thus far.
2. Jadis looks like she walked out of a 50s sci-fi movie, not an Anglican church.
I don’t think this is for Charn. But we shall seeeeee……
I’m guessing and hoping this is for Charn.
I certainly hope they are not using a church for Charn…that would be weird. This movie’s going to be a mess.
It looks fairly old, being built 900 years ago, so might do the job if tarted up with wall decorations, maybe, not to mention the hall of statues.
I can definitely see how this could be used for some parts of Charn, especially the palace and hall of statues, though I hope they add some Babylonian or Egyptian touches to make it more otherworldly. But they could just use it as a regular church in the movie. Maybe they will show the cabby praying?
I’m leaning towards it being for Charn since the filming schedule is for about 7 days there. If it were just a small church scene, then it would take 1-2 days at most. I think it could be an extensive scene due to the duration of filming. That’s my guess.
I could only assume it’s for Charn, (which I don’t think weird at all).
It would be disappointing for the first location that really looks like how I pictured a place in the book, to be for used for a random scene in London.
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I don’t have many thoughts on this news story, but it’s certainly a beautiful location! Wonder how long we’ll see it on screen in the final cut.