Reconstruction painting depicting the interior of the Great Hall at Kenilworth Castle, also known as John of Gaunt's Hall, as it may have appeared during a feast in the the fourteenth or fifteenth century

Date:
Mar 1986
Location:
Kenilworth Castle, Great Hall, Kenilworth, Warwick, Warwickshire
Reference:
IC053/018
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The hall was originally constructed between 1373 and 1380, during John of Gaunt's ownership of the Kenilworth Castle and his extensive construction works at the site, transforming the medieval castle into a fortified palatial complex. In circa 1400, an elevated floor was inserted into the hall to create a storage basement below, remaining in this form throughout the medieval period, as depicted in this reconstruction. This illustration was reproduced on page 8 of the 1991 and 1997 English Heritage site guidebooks for Kenilworth Castle.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC053 Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden, Warwickshire; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Medieval Great Hall, Medieval Castle