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 The Long Gallery |
No great house of the early years of the seventeenth century would have been considered complete without a Long Gallery. Robert Cecil made his as long as he could and it runs the entire length of the South Front. Fortunately the room has survived unaltered from the time it was built, except in two particulars. The ceiling, orignally white, was covered with gold leaf by the 2nd Marquess; and the panels between the pillars at each end were removed and the rooms which had formed them incorporated into the Gallery. |
