Interior -view of sitting room
BL 10151
Description Interior -view of sitting room
Date 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 10151
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Library, Kilnside House, Seedhill Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Kilnside House, a large mansion built c.1836, was altered and extended in the 1880s for Stewart Clark, a partner in Clark & Company, the Paisley threadmakers. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890. This room, with dark dado panelling, has a wooden fireplace surround with patterned tile panels around the grate, and a huge mirrored overmantel. It is lit by gas wall brackets, and an elaborate central 'gasolier' (gas light fitting) whose ceiling support is tasselled and decorated in material. Wooden fireplace surrounds were usually found in secondary rooms of grand houses, and were varnished or painted, depending on the quality of the wood. The overmantel, with its central mirror and complicated array of columns and display shelves, became popular in the late Victorian period. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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