Wythenshawe Hall
Located in Cheshire : Whythenshawe Hall
Private Residence
Performance Space: Hall
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Description / History (pre-1642)
The 3-bay hall was probably entered through a screens passage from a porch at the N end. 'The architect and antiquarian Henry Taylor (1837--1916) saw evidence in the 1880s of a timber screen at the northern end of the Dining Room which, together with the survival of the screens passage arrangement (only altered <i>c.</i> 1867), led him to conclude that the kitchen and buttery ... were located in the area of what are now the Anteroom and stone-flagged hall' (Taylor, 'Wythenshawe Hall' 4).
The hall was remodelled in the Victorian era with Jacobean-style panelling and fireplace. The ceiling is also 19th c.