Where was The Importance of Being Earnest filmed

The Importance of Being Earnest was filmed in London in the United Kingdom.

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Algy Moncrieff's Flat (interior)

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Algy Moncrieff's Flat (exterior)

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Street

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Scene was shot Somerset house is a large neoclassical building that was designed by Sir William Chambers and constructed in 1776 in the Strand on the River Thames. For over two centuries the structure housed various learned societies and public offices including the Royal Academy, the Geological Society, the Navy Board, and the Stamp & Tax offices. In the mid 1980s the house was redeveloped into a centre for the visual arts.

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Library

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Scene was shot The Athenaeum is a private club for men pursing intellectual interests, focusing on members who have earned distinction in the sciences or arts. Women weren't allowed as guests in the club until 1972, and were denied membership until 2002. The clubhouse was constructed in 1830 by architect Decimus Burton in the Neoclassical style with the top two smaller floors added later at the end of that century.

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Lady Bracknell's Mansion

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Scene was shot Lancaster House is a neo-classical mansion constructed in 1825 for the Duke of York and Albany designed partially by Sir Robert Smirke before he was replaced by Benjamin Dean Wyatt. The interior wasn't completed until 1840 with the help of a third architect Sir Charles Barry. The house has become a popular stand-in for Buckingham Palace in films and TV playing that role half a dozen times.

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Arches

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Scene was shot The Chapel at Lincoln's Inn was constructed in 1623 by Inigo Jones to replace the earlier structure which had become too small for its purpose. The chapel was constructed atop a vaulted undercroft which is open to the street and serves as a public gathering place. The undercroft is also a crypt which was used for burials of members of the inn until 1852.

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Hatfield House

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Scene was shot Hatfield House was constructed in 1611 for Robert Cecil and has remained in the Cecil family ever since. The house was constructed from the bricks of the former Royal Palace of Hatfield which was mostly torn down to allow its construction. The house is an example of Jacobean architecture and is surrounded by extensive gardens.

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Pub

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Scene was shot Crocker's Folly is a Northern Renaissance style pub and inn built in 1898 by architect Charles Worley. The pub was originally known as The Crown, but was renamed in 1987 to its longstanding nickname based on an false story about the original owner, Frank Crocker, building the pub on this site due to a false tip-off about it being near the new terminus of the Great Central Railway and losing his fortune when that turned out to be wrong.

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Jack Worthing's Country Estate

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Scene was shot West Wycombe Park was constructed for sir Francis Dashwood between 1740 and 1800 encompassing a unique combination of Palladian, Neoclassical, and Greek Revival styles. Different architects designed different parts of the house including Nicholas Revett for the west portico and Roger Morris who designed the east end of the house. Surrounding the house are the idiosyncratic gardens designed by Nicholas Revett that contain several smaller "Temples" based off Greek and Roman architecture as well as a Gothic chapel constructed later.

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Street

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Casino

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Scene was shot The house on the Luton Hoo Estate was designed in the neoclassical style by architect Robert Adam and constructed for John Stuart, the 3rd Earl of Bute starting in 1767. The exterior of the house was renovated by architect Robert Smirke in 1830 to its present form. The house was gutted by a fire in 1843 and in the subsequent rebuild the interior was modernized to match Smirke's exterior. The interior was redesigned once more in 1903 by new owner Sir Julius Wernher in the belle epoque style. Currently the house is operated as a 228-room luxury hotel, while the surrounding estate is still owned by the Wernher family.

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Can-Can Performance

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Scene was shot Wilton's Music Hall was constructed in 1859 by architect Jacob Maggs, and was rebuilt in 1878 after being destroyed in a fire. The hall remains one of the few saloon-style music halls that has not been extensively changed since its original construction. The hall was turned to other purposes including a soup kitchen and rag storage warehouse for over 100 years but was finally returned to a performance venue in 1997.

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