Virtual tour: Behind the scenes
The internet gives us a wonderful opportunity to show areas of the hall not currently accessible to day to day visitors. Here are a few examples...
| This fireplace, part of the chimney stack forming the fireplace in the Star Chamber below, is one of the many indicators of the wealth and importance of the Radclyffe family. The stack, built around 1360, is nearly 12 feet square and provides a smoke escape for no less than five large fireplaces on three floors. |  |
| This rare and unusual plaster ceiling can be found in a bedroom of the east wing. This section of the building was added in the early 1600s and the ceiling added sometime prior to around 1750. |  |
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An oil on panel painting of Ordsall Hall by John Ralston (1789-1833). Note the moat, still in existence when this painting was painted around 1830. The painting is currently on loan to Salford Museum and Art Gallery. |
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On the third floor of the east wing, again constructed in the early 1600s, you can find this heraldic plaster panel above yet another fireplace. The panel displays the traditional Tudor rose design and a central coat of arms of Radclyffe quartering Legh, Arderne and Sandbach. NB: The photograph is a negative image to improve the detail. |
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This page was last updated on 24 February 2011
