Editing Bolton Abbey (section)

== Bolton Abbey in culture ==

The views and setting of the priory's remains have been immortalised in painting and poetry.

Most notably a painting by [[Edwin Landseer]] and several watercolours by [[J. M. W. Turner]] one of which, ''Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire'' (1809), is held at the British Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bmimages.com/results.asp?txtkeys1=bolton+abbey+yorkshire|title=Gallery – Bolton Abbey Yorkshire by The British Museum Images stock photo and image search.|website=British Museum Images}}</ref>
The young [[Brontë sisters]] are believed to have visited the estate while Landseer was in residence.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Knights |first1=David |title=New research into Brontes and Duke |url=https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/17423555.new-research-brontes-duke/ |access-date=10 February 2021 |work=Keighley News |date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
(Researching for his painting ''Bolton Abbey in Olden Times'', the young authors were escorted on an exclusive guided tour by an unnamed 'E'.) The following year [[Charlotte Brontë]] exhibited a drawing 'Bolton Abbey' alongside stars of the day at the Royal Northern Festival of Arts, Leeds. When first discovered by Jane Sellars and Christine Alexander in 1994,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Art of the Brontës|first1=Christine|last1=Alexander|first2=Jane|last2=Sellars|date=23 February 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|id={{ASIN|0521438411|country=uk}}}}</ref> it was thought based on Turner's view of 1809, but further research, and detail of a drifting heron relates the drawing more closely to Landseer's oil-sketch of the same scene, which shows a heron drifting toward Charlotte's reciprocal bird, as if to embrace. Landseer's sketch was never exhibited or reproduced, it reiterates therefore that the Brontës met the influential artist in 1833. [[Wordsworth|William Wordsworth's]] poem ''[[The White Doe of Rylstone]]'' was inspired by a visit to Bolton Abbey in 1807.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/london/art45928|title=Rare Wordsworth Manuscript Secured By Wordsworth Trust – Culture24|website=www.culture24.org.uk}}</ref>
*In [[Anthony Trollope]]'s ''[[Lady Anna (novel)|Lady Anna]]'' (1874), an excursion is made to Wharfedale, and a dramatic incident takes place on the banks of the river that encircles the Abbey.
*Characters played by [[Richard Harris]] and [[Rachel Roberts (actress)|Rachel Roberts]] picnic at Bolton Abbey in the 1963 film ''[[This Sporting Life]]''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CfBAgAAQBAJ&dq=Bolton+Priory+%22this+sporting+life%22&pg=PT16|title=A Yorkshire Miscellany|first=Tom|last=Holman|date=14 October 2010|publisher=Frances Lincoln|isbn=9781907666353|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2KHDAAAQBAJ&dq=Bolton+Priory+%22this+sporting+life%22&pg=PA154|title=The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure: Habermas and Leisure at the End of Modernity|first=K.|last=Spracklen|date=7 May 2009|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230239500|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*The abbey appears in episodes 28 and 29 of [[Emmerdale|Emmerdale Farm]] in January 1973, appearing as a fictional abbey ruins that are within walking distance of the local village of Beckindale.
*In episode 6 of the BBC series ''[[The Trip (2010 TV series)|The Trip]]'', Bolton Abbey is visited.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701118/plotsummary|title="The Trip" The Angel at Hetton (TV Episode 2010)|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>
*A blurred photo of the Abbey is used for the cover of ''[[Faith (The Cure album)|Faith]]'' by [[The Cure]], an album from 1981, with the picture taken by Andy Vella.
*The 1985 music video for the Love and Rockets song "If There's A Heaven Above" was filmed at Bolton Abbey.
*The [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Gunpowder (TV series)|Gunpowder]]'' (2017) used Bolton Abbey as a location.<ref name="hordley">{{cite web|last1=Hordley|first1=Chris|title=Where was BBC's Gunpowder Filmed?|url=http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/story/Where-BBC-Gunpowder-filmed|publisher=[[Creative England]]|access-date=29 November 2017|date=20 October 2017|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504014308/http://creativeengland.co.uk/story/Where-BBC-Gunpowder-filmed|url-status=dead}}</ref>