'...on the W. wall also are three groups of carved panels; the middle group (Plate 137) is of nine panels of which five represent scenes from the life of St. Mary Magdalen (a) the Magdalen washing the feet of Christ, (b) Christ at Bethany with the inscription "Martha solicita es et turbaris erga plurima Maria optimam partem elegit" and the date 1541, (c) the Magdalen anointing the head of Christ, (d) Christ appearing to the Magdalen in the garden with the inscriptions "Noli me tangere" and "Rabboni", (e) the Magdalen and the disciples with the inscription "Vidi dominum"... Other panels include Sts John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen, Henry VIII and various heraldic motifs.

The finely carved Jacobean screen at the low end has 5 bays and 2 doorways, flanked by fluted Corinthian columns. The doorways were replaced by Buckler in 1836.

The interior of the great hall facing N after its restoration in the 1960s.

An angel boss from the hall roof, ca. 1959.

Detail of the hall screens showing a section of the elaborate carved shutter-boards from the upper section of the screens, ca. 1959.

Low end of the hall showing the screens with their shutter-boards removed.

The screens passage was reused from the old hall but at the S rather than N end. An entrance porch was added on the E side.

High end of the hall ca. 1959.

View of the hall roof looking N.

'The restored mid 15th-century roof...is divided by trusses with moulded and embattled cambered tie-beams into three bays of which the N. and S. bays are each divided into two subsidiary bays. The tie-beams are carved on the vertical faces with roses and stylised leaf-ornament; they have mid 19th-century braces below forming four-centred arches with traceried spandrels and springing from short wall-posts supported on 19th-century stone angel-corbels. The trusses and two subsidiary pairs of principals have arch-braced collar-beams and king-posts with curved struts. Under the sub-principals are small false hammer-beams carved as angels holding crowned shields charged with the initial letters of the patrons and Foundresses of the College...they have been restored but are for the most part original. The whole roof was coloured in 1875 on the basis of traces of original colouring said to have survived; the gilded lead stars are original.'

The low end of the great hall facing the location of the original abbey church chancel. The moulded ribs and geometric design of the fine plaster ceiling can be seen above the panelling.

The 15th c. doorway at the W end of the S aisle led into the Inner Chamber, now Committee Room I, of the same period. The early 19th c. door in the SW bay leads to a 2-storey Committee Rooms block built ca. 1810.