[NT] Nostell Priory. Tapestry Room (04)

When Robert Adam designed this room in the 1760s, it was intended to be the best drawing room. The ceiling plasterwork and wall decorations were completed by 1774, but the room remained unfinished.

 

Sir Roland Winn and Sabine had planned this as a grand 'withdrawing room' for guests to retreat after an evenings entertainment, but the project ground to a halt when he died in 1785. Only the ceiling and fireplace remain. Whilst Rowland's Nostell was shaped by new, British designers, tasted changed in the following century. Later generations were keen to promote their family history and good taste by filling rooms with a mix of prized inheritances and newly purchased artistic treasures. These included Continental antiques such as Flemish tapestries which give the room its name.

 

Of the four largest tapestries, three date from 1750, the other is a period replacement after the fourth in the set was damaged by fire in 1920.

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