Stone doorway in the south-west corner of the Great Hall

The sixteenth-century doorway in the south-west corner of the Great Hall. There are iron pins for hinges on each side, on the back of the stone jambes, which suggest that the doorway had double doors. Presumably this provided access from the area immediately behind the high table of the hall to the parlour or parlours in the east range. The doorway was blocked and covered over in the seventeenth century.

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