These pieces supposedly belonged to another stately hall situated above the room, but they were built into the reconstructed vaults by 20th-century restorers.

It be a noble and stately hall far from the beaten way.

What was said at airports and in stately halls and in formal toasts was meant to facilitate the private talk.

The crowd wandered from room to room, from stately hall down to pantries and kitchens and bakehouses.

Also in the neo-Classical style is a stately central hall and a parlor with ceiling moldings and a huge white marble fireplace.

Police, alerted to four Russians running around trying to find a stately hall, rounded them up and solved the mystery with the help of an interpreter.

Town clerk records from 1751 describe the building as "very substantial; a fair stately hall."

One had the tiniest niggling apprehension of having to resort to squalid mercenary measures to provide an heir to these stately halls.

All around them was a stately hall with walls of plain white marble.

In short, if an army had sacked it this stately hall could scarce have seemed more ruined.