Smithells Hall 
THE ELAN OF THE GROUNDS 
SMITHELLS HALL 
ment is now divided into two and is used for 
other purposes, and has lost all the character¬ 
istics of its original appearance. Its parts, 
however, can easily he traced, and it would not 
he a difficult matter to restore it at any time 
to something like its condition in medieval 
days. Across its west end are the screens and 
ancient passage through the building from 
north to south. 
At the other end 
of the great hall 
was the high 
table, and from 
this was entered 
the lord’s cham¬ 
ber, or smaller 
hall, now cut up 
into small apart¬ 
ments and used 
as a cottage. On 
the east side of 
the courtyard is 
a fine room, with 
a square bay win¬ 
dow, used per¬ 
haps as a with¬ 
drawn! g-room, 
and beyond this, 
at the south end of the east wing, is the 
domestic chapel. The chapel is still used 
by the family and tenants, but the interior 
having been greatly injured by fires is not 
of much interest, the new work being un¬ 
pleasantly modern. 'Idle withdrawing-room, 
and the apartments on the first floor of this 
east wing, are in a more or less dilapidated 
state, the former 
room having 
been stripped 
of its panelling, 
which is now 
in one of the 
rooms on the 
other side of the 
house. 
The west side 
of the quad¬ 
rangle consists 
of a range of 
ancient apart- 
ments built 
originally with¬ 
out any corridor. 
In Jacobean 
times a passage 
was built on 
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SMITHELLS HALL 
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