Fireplace
Category
Stone
Date
1430 - 1450
Materials
Stone
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Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire
NT 579436
Summary
A stone medieval fireplace, 1430–50, located on the first floor dining 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 (grotesques, foliage, animals, wild men and biblical scenes), especially on the cornices and lintels.The carvings of the first floor chimneypiece, along with those of the chimneypiece on the ground floor (NT 579435), 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).