<<< Back
Title: Burton Agnes Hall, the Entrance Hall - HLS05716
Click on the photo to enlarge. Click here to Comment
To license a hi-res version of this image or order a print: Copy the full title, including the number and quote this when contacting us. Not all images are available to license or print.
Title
Burton Agnes Hall, the Entrance Hall - HLS05716
Description
Slide 11 - Having viewed the exterior, let us now enter this ancestral home by the southern porch. The true note of the place is struck when we enter the Entrance Hall, and find a richness of carving, and an elaboration of effect which is quite unusual.
The chimney-piece of stone and marble is truly a wonderful work, coupled Ionic columns support a very elaborate carved panel, which represents the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, and, below, the five senses. Above the carving are three armorial panels, and a pediment completes the design, with the arms and quarterings of the Boyntons on a shield in the middle, and the whole of the work being of exceeding richness.
On each side of the chimney-piece hang the recently painted portraits of Mr & Mrs Wickham Boynton, the present owners.
The chimney-piece of stone and marble is truly a wonderful work, coupled Ionic columns support a very elaborate carved panel, which represents the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, and, below, the five senses. Above the carving are three armorial panels, and a pediment completes the design, with the arms and quarterings of the Boyntons on a shield in the middle, and the whole of the work being of exceeding richness.
On each side of the chimney-piece hang the recently painted portraits of Mr & Mrs Wickham Boynton, the present owners.
Creator
George Hepworth
Source
Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society
Date
1905 , 1900s
Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HLS05716.tif
Collection
Citation
George Hepworth, “Burton Agnes Hall, the Entrance Hall - HLS05716,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7112.
Comments