Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, A[lfred] H[enry], [from old catalog] ed · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 54
e screen supporting the Minstrels Gallerey,over which one loves to throw, Paolo Veronese fashion, heavydraperies of crimson velvet ! The Hall had included the presentoutside passage under the Gallery. The Hall measurements mayhave interest:— Length, including screen and gallery . . . 61 ft. ic4 in.… … 2 2 MoIIaton Iball doors leading into it, you are in a room private almost as a bou-doir ; for its only gallery, the Minstrels [?] at one end, holdingthe old organ (last repaired in 1799), is not necessarily a passage.So, in summer, when you escape the glare by down-drawnscreens to the high…
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