For the first time in all my visits to the hall, I found myself alone in The Long Gallery. I tried so hard to get a shot of the uneven floor but couldn’t quite manage it, so went for this instead to show off the lovely ceiling and light.
“The ornate moulded plasterwork on the Long Gallery ceiling is one of the many original features of Jacobean Aston Hall. Having been lovingly restored to its former grandeur, this magnificent room leaves visitors with a lasting impression, and this would have been the designer, John Thorpe’s exact intention. After visiting the Hall in 1793, John Byng commented “my eternal delight, the long gallery, the glory of every old house, which we now never make part of a new building – altho’ the finest sitting room in summer, and the finest walking room in winter.”
