. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the room, but the floor, which ii fl reel, is the level throughout, the only mark of the dais being a wood seat attached to the wall between the two doors opened into the west wing and the fine carved canopy above. The canopy projects about 5 ft. and the line of the front is carried up to the roof, forming a 'secret chamber' behind in the gable, to which there are now no visible means of approach.' The screens occupy the usual position at the east end, the passage-way being separated from
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the room, but the floor, which ii fl reel, is the level throughout, the only mark of the dais being a wood seat attached to the wall between the two doors opened into the west wing and the fine carved canopy above. The canopy projects about 5 ft. and the line of the front is carried up to the roof, forming a 'secret chamber' behind in the gable, to which there are now no visible means of approach.' The screens occupy the usual position at the east end, the passage-way being separated from the hall proper by ' speres' st:inding out 4 ft. from the walls, and the space between, 14 ft. in width, occupied by a movable oak screen 7 ft. wide. There is no holding shields. The posts forming the spcrcs arc octagonal on , standing directly on the floor, and are cut out of two oak trees of slightly different girth, one being 24 in. and the other 20 in. in diameter. They are moulded and panelled their full height on each face with small trefoil-headed panels and embattled at the top. The tie-tcams to the roof principals have also embattled mould- ings, but the detail is such as might belong to any period between the end of the 15 th and the middle of the i6th century. In the age behind the screen are five doorways originally opening to the kitchen wing, one only of which is now in use, the others being made up. The door heads, which are Late 15-^Cenrory ^ 162'Century E5] 1662 EZZl lo21. Plan of Rlfford Old Hall in'r.^trels' garcr\-, the speres going up to support a moulded cambered tic-beam. The roof of the hall between the screen and the is divided into live equal bavs by four hammer-beam roof principals, the spaces being plastered between the spans and filled in with shaped wind braces, forming large quatrefoils. .AH the timber work in the hall is richly moulded and caned, or otherwise ornamented, the hammer-beams terminating in figures of an
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