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HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 851 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle) , a term which has two significations in England and is applied sometimes to the manor
house
 , the residence of the lord of the manor, which implied a territorial possession, but more often to the entrance
hall
  of a mansion. In the latter case it was the one large room in the feudal castle up to the middle of the 15th century, when it served as audience chamber, dining-room, and dormitory. The
hall
  was generally a parallelogram on plan, with a raised
dais
  at the farther end, a large bow window on one side, and in one or two cases on both sides. At the entrance end was a passage, which was separated from the hall by a
partition
  screen often elaborately decorated, and over which was provided a minstrels' gallery; on the opposite side of the passage were the hatches communicating with the serveries. This arrangement is still found in some of the colleges at Oxford and
Cambridge
 , such as those of New College, Christchurch, Wadham and Magdalen, Oxford, and in Trinity College,
Cambridge
 . In private mansions, however, the kitchen and offices have been removed to a greater distance, and the
great
  hall is only used for banquets. Among the more remarkable examples are the halls of Audley End; Hatfield; Brougham Castle; Hardwick; Knole Stanway in Gloucestershire; Wollaton, where it is situated in the centre of the mansion and lighted by clerestory windows; Burton Agnes in Yorkshire; Canons Ashley, Northamptonshire; Westwood Park, Worcestershire; Fountains, Yorkshire; Sydenham
House
 , Devonshire; Cobham, Kent; Montacute, Somersetshire; Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire (vaulted and with two columns in the centre of the hall to carry the vault); Longford Castle, Wiltshire; Barlhorough, Derbyshire; Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, with a bow window at each end of the
dais
  and a third bow window at the other end; Knole, Kent; and at Mayfield, Sussex (with stone -arches across to carry the roof), now converted into a Roman Catholic chapel. Many of these halls have
hammer
 -beam roofs, the most remark-able of which is found in the Middle Temple Hall, London, where both the tie and collar beams have
hammer
 -beams. Of other halls, Westminster is the largest, being 238 ft. long; followed by the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, 110 ft; Wolsey's Hall, Hampton Court, ro6 ft; the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House; the hall at Lambeth, now the library; Crosby Hall; Gray's Inn Hall; the Guildhall; Charterhouse; and the following halls of the London City CompaniesClothworkers, Brewers, Goldsmiths, Fishmongers. The term hall is also given to the following English mansions:Haddon, Hardwick, Apethorpe,
Aston
 , Blickling, Brereton, Burton Agnes, Cobham, Dingley, Rushton, Kirby, Litford and Wollaton; and it was the name of some of the earlier colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, most of which have now been absorbed in other colleges, so that there remain only St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.


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