A UNESCO award-winning heritage building with proven acoustics and modern heating, lighting and sound. The Great Hall hold four different venues aside from Main Hall which carries different capacities based on event natur; Main Hall the venue which your event took part at hold up to 480 people. Commonly the fireplace would have an elaborate overmantel with stone or wood carvings or even plasterwork which might contain coats of arms, heraldic mottoes (usually in Latin), caryatids or another adornment. There was often a minstrels' gallery above the screens passage. This decoration clearly marked the window as belonging to the lord's private hall. At that time the word "great" simply meant big and had not acquired its modern connotations of excellence. From the Westgate and into the Great Hall through to Queen Eleanor's Garden and up to the Military Museums - there is a rich history to explore. At the other end of the hall was the dais where the high table was situated. Gryffindor Hufflepuff Ravenclaw Slytherin. Read more. The staff table was at the front, where the entire Hogwarts staff sat. Many French manor houses have very beautifully decorated external window frames on the large mullioned windows that light the hall. In Scotland, these devices are called a laird's lug. All Rights Reserved. The Great Hall has hosted numerous formal dinners, as well as corporate training sessions and it can seat up to 120 people for a sit down meal and 150 people theatre style. On the right side of the Hall stands a raised gallery th… JOB TITLE. We took the best part of a whole day in the whole castle. By the late 16th century the great hall was beginning to lose its purpose. ft. venue is equipped with a full kitchen that can be used for food preparation and service, or simply as a bar and seating area, making it perfectly suited for a business lunch, evening reception, or quiet meeting retreat. Please share your resume to Jobs@thegreathall.ca. Holding the primary feasthall, war room, meeting chamber, and armory, the Great Hall was the first line of defense should the outer fortifications fall. The "high table" (often on a small dais or stage at the top of the hall, farthest away from the screens passage) seats dons (at the universities) and Masters of the Bench (at the Inns of Court), whilst students (at the universities) and barristers or students (at the Inns of Court) dine at tables placed at right angles to the high table and running down the body of the hall, thus maintaining the hierarchical arrangement of the medieval domestic, monastic or collegiate household. These include: The Great Hall offers breakfast, lunch and dinner à la carte, and an extensive selection of wine, craft beers and cocktails. The primary function of a Great Hall was as a place to hold official audiences, to host the court which decided local legal matters, and to provide an elegant setting for banquets, but the room’s wider importance to medieval society at large is here summarised by the historian C. Phillips: The early Great Halls were not only a symbolic centre of the community but also a very real one as all the castle residents ate and slept in it. Buy The Great Hall tickets at Ticketmaster.ca. 62. pinned by moderators. Love is in the air throughout our four wedding spaces, each one a perfect marriage of elegance and versatility. Later, the hall reserved for the lord and his high-ranking guests was moved up to the first-floor level. Please contact us to discuss your requirements. The hearth was used for heating and also for some of the cooking, although for larger structures a medieval kitchen would customarily lie on a lower level for the bulk of the cooking. SUBMIT. 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