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    • 'Ferdinand Lured by Ariel', John Everett Millais
    • 'A Sunny Corner', Frederic Lord Leighton
    • 'David Strangling the Lion', John Rogers Herbert
    • 'Circe and Scylla', John Melhuish Strudwick
    • 'Tobias and the Fish', John Rogers Herbert
    • 'Ruth and Naomi', Ary Scheffer
    • 'In a Convent Garden', George Dunlop Leslie
    • 'O Swallow, Swallow', John Melhuish Strudwick
    • 'The Garden of Gethsemane', William Dyce
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  • 'Ferdinand Lured by Ariel', John Everett Millais
  • 'A Sunny Corner', Frederic Lord Leighton
  • 'David Strangling the Lion', John Rogers Herbert
  • 'Circe and Scylla', John Melhuish Strudwick
  • 'Tobias and the Fish', John Rogers Herbert
  • 'Ruth and Naomi', Ary Scheffer
  • 'In a Convent Garden', George Dunlop Leslie
  • 'O Swallow, Swallow', John Melhuish Strudwick
  • 'The Garden of Gethsemane', William Dyce

Garden hall

Photograph of the hall showing paintings and fireplace

This was once the front entrance of the house, but George Holt made the new front entrance used today. We don’t know why he made this change. This left the staircase at the wrong end of the hall, a long way from the front door.

So Holt built a wall across part of the hall and rebuilt the bottom part of the staircase against it, at a right angle to where it had been before. On the other side of the new wall he added a fireplace.

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