Upper staircase hall - Scagliola columns and pilasters
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Saloon - Columns, pilasters, frieze and urns
The great triumph of the saloon, however, is the use of scagliola, including the richly coloured and figured Sienna shafts of the eight fluted Corinthian columns...and the urns, entablature and balustrade to the second-floor landing which gives access to four plaster-vaulted ante rooms serving the main bedrooms. All this scagliola was produced by Richard Feroze, England's leading contemporary scagliola-maker for Hayles and Howe.
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The quality of the scagliola columns in the central rotunda has been compared with the finest craftsmanship of the imperial palaces of St. Petersburg.
Giles Worsley - The English country house rises once more - The Daily Telegraph November 2, 2004
The colours of the columns and panels were chosen to complement existing marbles in the chapel, and the apse is lined with curved panels which look like red and black marble but which are, in fact, Scagliola, a man-made material used to simulate marble since the late 16th century. Scagliola can be found in many European churches of the Baroque period.
Church Building – Issue 93 May/June 2005