Cherie's Place » The High Great Chamber http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Royal Arms http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2013/05/10/the-royal-arms/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2013/05/10/the-royal-arms/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 10:18:40 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=10635 The Royal Crest

The Royal Arms are supported by a lion and a dragon.  The fireplace, which can be seen here is quite plain in comparison.

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Doorway Detail

]]> http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2013/05/09/entrance-to-the-high-great-chamber/feed/ 8 Hardwick Hall – The High Great Chamber http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/08/15/hardwick-hall-the-high-great-chamber/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/08/15/hardwick-hall-the-high-great-chamber/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:25:06 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3961 This room is so large and elaborate that photographs don’t do it justice. The theme on the frieze depicts a forest with the court of Diana, amid attendant deer, lions, elephants, camels and other animals along with scenes of country life and deer and boar hunting.

The court of Diana, the virgin goddess and huntress, is probably a deliberate allusion to Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen.

To either side of the window recess, and rather more skilfully modelled than the rest of the frieze, are allegorical figures of Venus chastising Cupid, and Summer, based on Flemish engravings by Crispin van der Passe from designs by Martin de Vos. The hunting scenes elsewhere in the frieze are based on engravings by Philip Galle after Johannes Stradanus. *

Bess would have sat under a canopy like this although this one actually made in the early seventeenth century and pre-dates her. It was placed here by the bachelor Duke in the nineteenth century.

Loyalty in Plaster

Canopy

Fireplace

*From the National Trust guidebook.

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