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The Great Hall in Barley Hall, York, restored to replicate its appearance in around 1483 The great hall of The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay in 1906, filled with hunting trophies Great Hall at Stokesay Castle. A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages.
The hammerbeam roof of the great hall is the third-largest of its type in England, and the Art Deco interior of the house has been described as a "masterpiece of modern design". [1] The house is owned by the Crown Estate and managed by English Heritage, which took over responsibility for the great hall in 1984 and the rest of the site in 1995. [2]
The largest clearspan medieval roof in England, Westminster Hall's roof measures 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). [3] Oak timbers for the roof came from royal woods in Hampshire and from parks in Hertfordshire and from that of William Crozier of Stoke d'Abernon , who supplied over 600 oaks in Surrey , among other sources; they were assembled ...
The oldest surviving part of the palace is Westminster Hall, which dates from the reign of William II (r. 1087–1100). The palace was the principal residence of the English monarchs in the late Medieval period. In 1512, during the early reign of Henry VIII, a fire destroyed the royal apartments of the palace. [4]
The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion, or manor house after the great hall. Medieval great halls were the ceremonial centre of the household and were not private at all; the gentlemen attendants and the servants would come and go all the time.
The Marble Hall, named from its black and white marble floor, was completed in 1755 and forms the lower and southern part of the former medieval great hall, which was divided by an internal wall in the early 18th century into Staircase hall and Marble hall. Originally it was double height, as high as the staircase hall to the north, before the ...
The great hall replaced an earlier sequence of great halls on the same site, and was strongly influenced by Edward III's design at Windsor Castle. [16] The hall consists of a "ceremonial sequence of rooms", approached by a particularly grand staircase, now lost. [17] From the great hall, visitors could look out through huge windows to admire ...
The Great Hall ceased to be the venue for criminal trials after the Winchester Law Courts were erected, just to the east of the Great Hall, in 1974. [18] Behind the Great Hall a medieval-style garden, called Queen Eleanor's Garden, was created in 1986. [2] Winchester Castle is located in close proximity as well to the Westgate, part of the ...