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The elaborate minstrels' gallery in the Lescot Wing's lower main room, Louvre Palace, Paris. A minstrels' gallery is a form of balcony, often inside the great hall of a castle or manor house, and used to allow musicians (originally minstrels) to perform, sometimes discreetly hidden from the guests below.
The Minstrels' Gallery The minstrels' gallery in the nave dates to around 1360 and is unique in English cathedrals. Its front is decorated with 12 carved and painted angels playing medieval musical instruments, including the cittern , bagpipe , hautboy , crwth , harp , trumpet , organ , guitar , tambourine and cymbals , with two others which ...
English: The SS United States was an oceanliner built in 1951. Renowned for her record-breaking trans-Atlantic speed records, the ship has since fallen into disrepair. The photo is taken from the minstrel's gallery on the ship's Main Deck, looking onto the 1st-class dining room a deck below.
Minstrel in the Gallery is the eighth studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1975.The album sees the band going in a different direction from their previous work War Child (1974), returning to a blend of electric and acoustic songs, in a manner closer to their early 1970s albums such as Benefit (1970), Aqualung (1971) and Thick as a Brick (1972).
The surviving ground-floor parts of the 15th- and 16th-century building that are open to the public comprise three rooms. From north to south, they are a small room with a "minstrels' gallery", which now serves as the cinema entrance lobby with ticket office; the main hall; and a small lower-ceilinged inner room beyond.
At the opposing end, at second floor level, was a minstrels' gallery, where a wall of Chinese screens blocked the musicians' view of the room. In front of the balcony was Astor's statue of Venus; around this were potted plants and a small marble waterfall. Before the fireplace stood Louis XVI style candelabra. Between the candelabra was a ...
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After the outbreak of the Second World War the hotel was used to billet troops sent to North Norfolk to guard the coast from invasion. The hotel still retains many of its Edwardian architectural features including a fine main staircase, stained glass windows and a classic Minstrels’ Gallery which are all designed by Skipper.