Reconstruction illustration showing the upper floor of the New Hall at Pickering Castle in use as a courtroom, as it may have appeared in the fourteenth century. A case is in session, overseen by an official seated in the presidential chair to right.

Date:
circa 1990 - circa 1993
Location:
Pickering Castle, New Hall, Pickering, Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Reference:
IC080/003
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

Built in 1314, the New Hall was referred to in Tudor surveys of the site as the King's Hall or the Mote (Meeting) Hall. This illustration was reproduced on page 10 of the 1993 English Heritage guidebook for Pickering Castle.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC080 Pickering Castle, North Yorkshire; 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