Hall Of Chivalry And King Arthur's Great Exhibition Hall

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TINTAGEL TINTAGEL SX 08 NE 4/179 Hall of Chivalry and King Arthur's Great Exhibition Hall II King Arthur's Great Exhibition Hall and shop; open to the public and used as a masonic lodge. Built as the headquarters for the Fellowship of the Round Table.

Circa late C19, the hall to rear added in 1929-1933, the erection of which was inspired by Frederick Thomas Glassock.

Roughly coursed slate with granite dressing, slate roof with gable ends and parallel range to rear with slate roof with gable ends. Slate stacks with moulded caps on gable ends and rising from valley forming front lateral stacks to rear range.

Plan: Original plan much altered and extended. The original building was possibly of a single depth 2 room plan with central entrance, extended to rear in circa late C19 or early C20 to form a double depth plan. In 1929-1933 the building was extended further to the rear when King Arthur's Great Exhibition Hall was added.

2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3 window front, the central range set forward.

Central 2 storey canted bay. Ground floor has 2 canted bay windows in central entrance with 4-centred arch. First floor with two 4-light mullion and transom windows flanking central canted bay window. 2 full dormer windows in hipped roofs with central gabled projection with 2-light window.

Interior in the smaller hall is a collection of oil paintings which were commissioned from William Hatherell illustrating the principal symbolic events associated with King Arthur and his Knights.

There is a wide collection of Cornish stones used in the Great Exhibition Hall, the walls largely of local Tintagel stone and polyphant stone. The floor is of polyphant stone decorated with a pattern of the Round Table in red mottled porphyry and 1 of the cross of the Knights in white elvan. There are a total of 73 stained glass windows by Miss Whall; 49 windows in the corridor portraying heraldic deuces of the Knights of the Round Table or with some reference to their ideals and 3 large windows at each end of the hall. The roofs are waggon vaulted with moulded oak ribs. Fine collection of Arthurian literature.

Williams, Michael Tintagel 1971 King Arthur's Great Exhibition Hall leaflet

Listing NGR: SX0576988430

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1952 IOE Records taken by Ian G Stokes; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Ian G Stokes. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project