Interior-general view of Dining Room of Curling Hall, now demolished
B 64196
Description Interior-general view of Dining Room of Curling Hall, now demolished
Date 1893
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number B 64196
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 12111
Copies SC 702747
Scope and Content Dining Room, Curling Hall, Largs, North Ayrshire (latterly the Marine and Curlinghall Hotel and now demolished) Curling Hall, a large mansion overlooking the seafront at Largs, was built in 1812. In 1892 the house was extended by the architect, Thomas Graham Abercrombie, and refurbished by Wylie & Lochhead, Glasgow, for John Clark. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1893. This 17th-century style dining room has an elaborately panelled ceiling and dado, and a chimneypiece with a richly carved mirrored overmantel. On either side of the fireplace, doors with stained glass panels lead through to the conservatory. The room is lit by a pair of ornate brass electroliers. Harry Bedford Lemere's photograph provides an invaluable record, not only of the interior of a late 19th-century Scottish dining room, but also of the florist's art of elaborate table decoration and the formal dinner settings that were popular in wealthy middle-class households of the day. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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