. Devon notes and queries. Ford House:- Room adjoining the Princes Bedchamber. Devon Notes and Queries. 43 mantelpiece. Although the orange room is otherwise byno means picturesque, the adjoining green room, whichwas probably his audience chamber, is a most inviting. A Panel from the Orange Room. apartment. It is 21 feet long by nearly 14 feet wide, andhas a beautifully designed ceiling, the clustering ribs unitingin three most graceful pendants banded with flowers andleafage and lions faces. This room may have been, in thefirst instance, either Lady Reynells boudoir, or else themusic room. An
. Devon notes and queries. Ford House:- Room adjoining the Princes Bedchamber. Devon Notes and Queries. 43 mantelpiece. Although the orange room is otherwise byno means picturesque, the adjoining green room, whichwas probably his audience chamber, is a most inviting. A Panel from the Orange Room. apartment. It is 21 feet long by nearly 14 feet wide, andhas a beautifully designed ceiling, the clustering ribs unitingin three most graceful pendants banded with flowers andleafage and lions faces. This room may have been, in thefirst instance, either Lady Reynells boudoir, or else themusic room. And, when adorned with its carved furnitureand rich tapestries, what an exquisite room it must havebeen ! Its very walls seem still to ring with the dulcetnotes of the harp and the guitar, and the sounds of refinedsocial intercourse pertaining to the most glorious period ofour language and literature—that reposeful era congenial tothe development of an ideal life, when human labour ceasedat sunset and was set aside by ail ranks in favour of theamenities and the delights of the home. Another of the upper rooms is called the blue room,doubtless, like the rest, so designated from the colour of itsformer hangings. The only remaining apartment with a traditional n
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