Cherie's Place » The Red Drawing-room http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sat, 02 May 2026 22:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Burton Agnes Hall – The Drawing-rooms http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/07/14/burton-agnes-hall-the-drawing-rooms/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/07/14/burton-agnes-hall-the-drawing-rooms/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:30:07 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3657 The first photograph shows the Elizabethan carving above the chimney-piece in the Red Drawing-room:

The main panel is a gruesome Dance of Death, showing a skeleton trampling on the symbols of earthly vanity, such as a papal crown, orb and sceptre, mitre, weapons of war,  etc.  The figures on either side are the Just, being received by angels, and the Unjust, claimed by the devil.  *

The other two photos show the Upper Drawing-room which contrasts to the other main rooms in the house due to the removal of the seventeenth-century panelling.  It was redecorated by the 3rd  Baronet in the early eighteenth century.

The Red Drawing-room

The Upper Drawing-room

Some Detail

*From the Burton Agnes guidebook.

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