Lady Spencer's Room
The private drawing room where Lady Spencer received her guests, this room was described by Arthur Young in 1772 as 'fitted up with great taste; scarce anything can be more beautiful than the mosaic ceiling, the cornices and all the ornaments'. The ceiling is one of Stuart's best designs, based on a ceiling in the Baths of Augustus in Rome, while the frieze is adapted from that of the Erechtheum in Athens.
