A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages. It continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, al
The Great Hall in Barley Hall, York, restored in the late 1980s to replicate its appearance in around 1483
Great Hall at Stokesay Castle
The Great Hall at Stirling Castle built for James IV. The larger windows lit the high table
The Ridderzaal in The Hague is the main building of the 13th-century inner square of the former castle of the counts of Holland called Binnenhof
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
Great hall
…house in the Middle Ages. It continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing. At that time the word "great" simply meant big and had not acquired its modern connotations of excellence. In the medieval…
Georg Janny, Salon in Makartstil
The great chamber of Old Soar Manor