Special Tours at Knebworth House.

The Banqueting Hall was vividly described by Edward Bulwer Lytton when he first saw it as a child: ' The character of the house was in itself a romance. The antlers of stags, so vast that their genus seems to have vanished from our parks and forests ...were ranged below the grim gothic masks that served as corbels to the beams of the lofty ceiling that domed the desolate banquet-hall.'

Banqueting Hall 1844

Some forty years later he had redecorated it as shown in this photograph.

Today the banners have gone, the suits of armour have been moved to the armoury and the dark stain removed from the wood paneling, but otherwise this, the oldest room in the house, remains much the same.

Special Tours