Half-tester bed
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1858 (using some earlier elements)
Materials
Oak
Measurements
320 x 153 x 221.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998030
Summary
An oak half-tester bed, English, dated 1858, and reputedly made in that year with fragments of timber removed following restorations and renovations at the Parish Church in Kendal, and incorporating Sizergh armorial motifs - a holly tree and Strickland scallops to the footboard, the date '1858', the motto 'SANS MAL' and the initials 'WCS' for Walter Charles Strickland - and other motifs, like lion masks and grotesque masks, reminiscent of other carved motifs of the late 16th century to be found at Sizergh. The high half-tester of two panels with four turned 'ball and spire' pendant finials, the headboard of six panels with applied beading and with applied masks; the footboard of three large and three small panels, applied with armorial motifs; the uprights topped by turned acorn finials.
Provenance
Bearing the date 1858, and the initials 'WCS' for Walter Charles Strickland (1825 - 1903) and reputedly made from fragments of the Strickland pew when restoration work was undertaken in the parish church at Kendal in the 1850s. Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.