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The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion, or manor house after the great hall. Medieval great halls were the ceremonial centre of the household and were not private at all; the gentlemen attendants and the servants would come and go all the time. The great chamber was at the dais end of the hall, usually up a staircase. It was the first room which offered the lord of the household some privacy from his own staff, albeit not total privacy. In the Middle Ages the great chamber was an all-purpose reception and living room. The family might take some meals in it, though the great hall was the main eating room. In modest manor houses it sometimes also served as the main bedroom.
By the seventeenth century communal meals in the hall had been abandoned and the great chamber was the best dining room. There was often a more modest room called the parlour, where the family took its meals when eating alone. Large houses gradually acquired a greater range of specialised living rooms, such as libraries, drawing rooms, and music rooms. By the early 18th century, great chambers had been replaced by rooms called "saloons", and these soon lost their function as dining rooms.
Many great chambers survive. Hardwick Hall has a very large and little-altered example from around 1600. In many other cases they were redecorated and given more specialised functions as drawing rooms or ballrooms or libraries.
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centuries, although by then the family used the greatchamber for eating and relaxing. At that time the word "great" simply meant big and had not acquired its...
adjoining the south side of the mansion. and the restoration of the GreatChamber, which he transformed into a library. Later, he was to become insane;...
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adding at the back (east) a staircase turret and an oriel window. The GreatChamber was also built at this time. At the beginning of the 18th century, the...
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cantilevered Great Stairs to an enfilade of rooms that controlled how far a person could progress into the presence of the King and Queen. The GreatChamber is...
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John and Margaret's son and successor John Sutton II that a chapel and greatchamber were added within the castle walls. Following the death of John Sutton...
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castle's chapel. The northern door led to the great hall, and the western door to a cellar under the greatchamber. There are only fragmentary remains of the...
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contained a range of buildings, probably including a Sergeant's Chamber, a Knights' Chamber, the Great Stable, barns and a granary. Modern visitors to the castle...
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occasions. The main room for the family to eat and live in was the greatchamber, usually on the first floor (above the ground floor), a continuation...
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works. In 1582, brass figures called "terms" were supplied for the GreatChamber fireplace and the windows were glazed with heraldry. There was a water...
vested it with great lawmaking powers. All other branches of government, including the judiciary, were responsible to it. By 1960, the chamber appointed the...
Gwent at Raglan Castle. The Kitchen Tower Great Hall GreatChamber and chapel, as seen from the top of the Great Tower The current gardens to the south of...
A second explosion followed almost immediately in the Commons Chamber, causing great damage—especially to its south end—but no injuries, as it was empty...
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