![]() Lorna Doone's fictional shooting during her wedding ceremony was inspired by the very real case of a 17th-century bride in Chagford, Devon, who was fatally shot on her wedding day. The novel has a happy ending, for Lorna survived, and John Ridd got his revenge on Carver Doone. ![]() At the time Blackmore wrote his novel there was no tower, only a west window. I was blocked entirely from going to see Lorna whereas we should have fixed it so that I as well might have the power. It is also likely that it would have been unglazed, making Carver Doone's shot easier.Īn alternative theory is that the shot was fired through a window at the west end of the nave, where the tower door is now. In the 17th century the church was much smaller, and the window would have looked onto the high altar. During the couple's wedding ceremony at Oare Church, Lorna's half-brother Carver Doone shot her through a small lancet window in the south wall. In Blackmore's enduring romance, set at the time of Monmouth's Rebellion in the late 17th century, a local farmer named John Ridd falls in love with Lorna, the adopted daughter of the outlaw Doone family. ![]()
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