'...on the west side of the Hall there is an exceptionally fine plaster frieze symbolizing Grenville's return from the hurly burly life of a campaigner with Maximillian in the Middle East to the cloistered surroundings of Buckland. The frieze, allegorical in its concept, depicts a knight under a vine, his arms piled and his horse at rest. His shield and a skull hang from the tree. It is a work of exceptional quality' (Cumming, <i>Buckland</i> [6]).