Penrhyn Castle Tour Session #5

This is the dressing room next to the bedroom in the previous post. I like spending time in here when I can. The atmosphere is most pleasing and I like the way the light filters in through the shuttered windows.

This fitted wardrobe is filled with drawers and shelves used for clothing and bed linen storage. The carvings are mixed geometric simpleness with complex freeform areas.  Moustached faces are repeated throughout each section, adding a sort of wood-spirit impression. This is a fairly large piece at 12’ long and 7’6” tall.

The large dress mirror continues some of the castle column theme, repeat arching and so on.

This Hopper desk seems out of place here and of course with the arched kneehole being so low, it was obviously not used in the common way. But there are aspects to the desk that I really like in that it’s a masculine desk and has a 1” thick slate work surface. The wallpaper in the background is by William Morris.

The chapel

The arched ceiling in the chapel is vaulted with segmented arching supported on typical columns that continue into graceful proportions that then culminate in central rosettes. Arched windows and doorways and recesses further define the arching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This balustrade unites the entrance with the main chapel body via a small set of stairways and each column is independently carved in its own unique characteristic carving.

Stained glasswork forms the window panels, but just look at the vivid blues and yellows and purples.