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This was indeed a GREAT Banquet Hall, with a 1916 Skinner organ no less. It boasts three fireplaces, a seventy-foot high ceiling, an organ gallery.... and remember, it's a personal residence, not a palace! The Flemish tapestries are from the 1500s.
The Banquet Hall measures 72 feet long, 42 feet wide with a 70 foot high barrel vaulted ceiling. This is one of the three grandest rooms in the house, any work of art is pale in comparison to the architectural art within the Banquet Hall. Hunt also designed the furnishing, an oak dining table with 64 chairs and two throne chairs in gilt trim. There are five Flemish tapestries dating between 1546 and 1553. A triple fireplace is at the opposite end of the hall supporting an over the mantel, high relief panel entitled “The Return from the Chase” carved by artist Bitter.
Bitter also created the oak mural on the organ gallery at the opposite end of the hall. Large arched windows divide the stoned walls, from the barrel-vaulted ceiling. Lining the upper hall are trophy heads, stone sculptures of knights and wall carvings.
Below the organ gallery is a built-in sideboard displaying a collection of 18th and 19th century brass and copper vessels.
The Banquet Hall measures 72 feet long, 42 feet wide with a 70 foot high barrel vaulted ceiling. This is one of the three grandest rooms in the house, any work of art is pale in comparison to the architectural art within the Banquet Hall. Hunt also designed the furnishing, an oak dining table with 64 chairs and two throne chairs in gilt trim. There are five Flemish tapestries dating between 1546 and 1553. A triple fireplace is at the opposite end of the hall supporting an over the mantel, high relief panel entitled “The Return from the Chase” carved by artist Bitter.
Bitter also created the oak mural on the organ gallery at the opposite end of the hall. Large arched windows divide the stoned walls, from the barrel-vaulted ceiling. Lining the upper hall are trophy heads, stone sculptures of knights and wall carvings.
Below the organ gallery is a built-in sideboard displaying a collection of 18th and 19th century brass and copper vessels.