Visitors can access A&E reception via the clearly signed path or the signed entrances in the main corridor accessed from the
Cheverel Entrance."
In "Mr Gilfil's Love Story" the reader is presented with Eoxholm, a landscape lacking any pretension to gentility such as that exhibited by
Cheverel Manor; it instead "conforms to the reassuring Gainsborough or Stubbs ideal of well-fed, clean, contented country people" (87), with Dorcas and her children all red chubby cheeks, signifying their harmony with the rustic idyll.
So wrote the novelist, George Eliot, of
Cheverel Manor in Mr Gilfil's Love Story, first published in 1857.
The relation between the heroine and her guardians is likewise parallel, for in each narrative, the lord and lady of the estate are benign but imperceptive figures; Austen's heavy Sir Thomas and her passive sofa-bound Lady Bertram are but slightly altered in Eliot's portrayals of Sir Christopher and Lady Chevereh Both Lady Bertram and Lady
Cheverel are chiefly distinguished by their useless embroidery-work, much of which they require Fanny and Caterina in their turns to finish for them.
There, when Cesario tries to correct Feste, Feste, a prolific purveyor of chiasmus, congratulates himself: "So thou mayst s ay the king lies by a beggar if a beggar dwell near him, or the church stands by thy tabor if thy tabor stand by the church.[...] A sentence is but a
cheverel glove to a good wit, how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward" (3.1.7-12).
Mrs Talbott, who lived in
Cheverel Place, Nuneaton, died the following day.
For example Arbury Hall becomes
Cheverel Manor in Mr Gilfil's Love-Story and Griff House (another Arbury estate property) was used in The Mill on the Floss.
She immortalised the mansion as
Cheverel Manor in her short stories Scenes Of Clerical Life.
The hall and the estate were the inspiration for
Cheverel Manor in her earliest stories, Tales of Clerical Life where it is described as a 'castellated house of grey--tinted stone' with 'architectural beauty like a cathedral' and carved ceilings 'like petrified lace-work'.
Police say the drugs were snatched from the car of a health worker who was visiting the
Cheverel Nursing Home, in
Cheverel Place.
The latter-day Queen Victoria and her escort, "Mr Brown", played by Dorothy and Mike King, were accompanied on their visit by Sir Christopher and Lady Henrietta
Cheverel, alias Helen and Clive Woodward, who came to inspect the heraldic shield of the Newdegate family and to listen to readings from George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life.