House Tour
Dining Room
The Dining Room was the Parlour of the 17th century house and is an addition made by Sir Arthur Ingram.
It retains its Jacobean plaster ceiling and frieze, probably by Francis Gunby and his team who worked for Sir
Arthur Ingram at his other Yorkshire houses including Sheriff Hutton. Much of the panelling is contemporary,
too.
In 1889-91, the room was altered for Mrs Meynell Ingram by the architect C E Kempe. He installed a built-in
sideboard and a handsome chimneypiece and overmantel, the latter based on the one in the hall at Hardwick in
Derbyshire. It has the arms and motto of Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Lennoxes, and was intended
to reinforce the connection of Temple Newsam with some of the leading characters of Elizabethan England. The
room has a pair of sideboard tables made for it perhaps by Thomas Chippendale the younger in about 1804, and
is furnished much as it was a hundred years ago.
Serving Room
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