December 2009
This year the decorations at the castle were based on fairy stories and were again ably put together by the Castle Heritage Manager, Nic Fulcher. They are to be seen inside the castle from 1st December until Christmas. Because some of the rooms can be used for functions in the Christmas period, certain rooms were decorated with trees only.
Heraldry Room: Christmas tree
Lower Corridor: Fairies on the windowsills
Lower Corridor: A doorway to fairy land
Queen’s Room: Little Red Riding Hood
Queen’s Room: The Big Bad Wolf
Queen’s Room: Little Red Riding Hood
Queen’s Bathroom: Snow White – the wicked stepmother
The Courtyard: A snowy scene
The Queen’s Gallery: Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother
The Queen’s Gallery: The Fairy Godmother
The Queen’s Gallery: The step-sisters
Chapel: Nativity scene
Seminar Room: Sleeping Beauty
Seminar Room: Sleeping Beauty
Lady Baillie’s Dressing Room: A fairy
Lady Baillie’s Bedroom: View of room
Lady Baillie’s Bedroom: The Frog Prince
Lady Baillie’s Bedroom: The Frog Prince
Catherine of Aragon Bedroom: Beauty and The Beast
Catherine of Aragon Bedroom: The Beast
Catherine of Aragon Bedroom: Beauty
Upper Corridor top of stairs: Rapunzel
Upper Corridor: Fairy decorations
Upper Corridor Fairies adorn the windowsills
Front Hall: Large Christmas tree
Yellow Drawing Room: The elves and the shoemaker
Thorpe Hall Drawing Room: Christmas decorations
Library: Christmas tree
Dining Room: Christmas tree
Front Door: Festive decorations
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Danses Caractéristiques – Dans (from ‘The Nutcracker’)