Fireplace
Category
Stone
Date
1430 - 1450
Materials
stone
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Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire
NT 579435
Summary
A stone medieval fireplace, 1430–50, located on the ground floor lesser hall of Tattershall Castle. One of four carved chimney pieces at Tattershall Castle, each topped with crenelations feauring heraldic coats of ams and motifs reflecting good and evil (foliage, animals, wild men and biblical scenes), especially on the cornices and lintels. The frieze of the groundfloor chimneypiece features carvings of the Treasurer’s purse, Gromwell weed and motto – 'Nay je droit' ('Have I not the right'). The carvings of the groundfloor chimneypiece, along with those of the chimneypiece on the first floor (NT 579436), are the most elaborate as these floors would have hosted the majority of visitors. See also NT 579437 (second floor great chamber) and NT 579438 (third floor bed chamber).