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The Globe Room Panels

Unknown artist, 1637–1700

The Globe Room, one of the most celebrated of early seventeenth century English rooms, formed part of the Reindeer Inn, Parson's Street, Banbury, from about 1637 until 1912, when it was sold by the Hook Norton Brewery Company to the London dealers Lenygon and Morant. Its chief features, described in a number of standard architectural textbooks, were the oak panelling, particularly the cherub-capped overmantle, and the ornate plaster ceiling. In 1964, Banbury Borough Council purchased the panelling for the planned new Civic Centre in Banbury, where it would be accessible to the public. Although the ceiling is believed to have been destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War, there is a copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Title of artwork, date

The Globe Room Panels, 1637–1700

Date supported

1964

Medium and material

Oak

Grant

1000

Total cost

2500

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