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Description: | Originally at the west end of the hall was a screen, this hid the service end of the house from the Lord's view. This was a partition made of wood with two doors into it; these entrances would have been covered with hides or furs to keep out drafts from the passage beyond. The screen at Gainsborough was removed in the 1790s when the Great Hall was rented out as a 'shewy' Theatre. The wood framing of the hall still bears the evidence of the mortice and tenon joints where screen was fixed. An example of how this screen may have looked can still be seen at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. This image is a reconstruction of what the screen at Gainsborough Old Hall would have looked like. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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