Forthcoming Events10...

02/06/2012 - 02/06/2012

Opening of From Hamlet to Hollywood: the Diamond Jubilee Celebration

The historic costume exhibition reopens with a glittering new makeover. read more

08/06/2012 - 08/06/2012

A Night of Sense and Sensibility

Hollywood comes to Barley Hall with this special summer evening screening of Jane Austen's masterpiece.... read more

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The Parlour

Look out of the window in this room and you will have a good view of the roof of the Hall. The roof tiles are replicas based on surviving examples and are hung on oak pegs and hand-split oak laths. The tiles are torched underneath with mortar to keep out the weather.

In the roof of this room you will see a brass chandelier from Flanders, with a figure of the Virgin and Child. The original would have been brought into Hull during the period when they were very fashionable with the richer citizens of York. This replicated example was cast from an original, which hangs in St John’s hospital in Bruges. The turned chair, the polygonal table with writing slope, and majolica vase in the Parlour are all based on Flemish paintings. The “red chest” is based on an original 14th century chest, which still retains some of its red colouring, in a church near Ripon.


Map of First Floor

Barley Hall, 2 Coffee Yard, Off Stonegate, York YO1 8AR, United Kingdom.

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