[29806] Belton House : Library

Belton House, Lincolnshire, 1685-88.

The National Trust.

The Library.

The marble chimney-piece has caryatid supports representing Ceres and Pomona.

 

Formerly the Great Dining Room, altered by James Wyatt in 1778 when it was transformed into a drawing room and again in 1876 when it became a library. The room contains around 6000 books.

 

Belton houses the Trust’s second largest library (11,000 titles, 5,500 of which were printed before 1801), magnificently rich in many areas, particularly in early continental books, music and pamphlets

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