Moore donated two clocks, built by Thomas Tompion, which were installed in the 20 foot high Octagon Room, the principal room of the building.

The Suffolk firm of A. G. Joy & Sons, which is just about to start on the plaster work in the castle's newly designed Octagon Room, is a family affair that involves three generations.

Giles Downes, the architect from Sidell Gibson who designed the Octagon Room, has planned a contemporary interpretation of a cathedral vault: each of the arches has five arches within it for a soaring effect.

At Twickenham he designed the pavilion at Orleans House, called the Octagon Room, for a Scottish patron, James Johnston (1655-1737) former Secretary of State for Scotland, about 1720.

Parallel to these rooms and to the northwest are the Dining Room, with an apsed anteroom leading to the Octagon Room.

Rittner saw the work in the artist's studio shortly before it was installed in the Tate Gallery's Octagon Room last October, and suggested its title with Seville in mind.

The Gallery, a triple cube room, 72 by 24 feet, was built to display the family's acquisitions, which overflow into the Cabinet Room, the State Bedroom and the Octagon Room.

The room to the north of the Drawing Room was originally the common parlour, and is now known as the Octagon Room.

It contains the Octagon Room, designed by Wren, and the nearby Sextant Room where John Flamsteed (1646-1719), the first astronomer royal, made his observations and calculations.

The difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great.