Farnley Hall, Stone Table on the West side of the Hall

Slide 6 – On the west side, facing the flower garden, is an old building with gables and mullioned windows exhibiting the Tudor features of the older portion of the house . In front of this is a stone table supported on pillars. On top is a brass plate engraved , and reads as follows: “At the table, which formerly stood in the orchard at Menston Hall, the seat of Colonel Charles Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, according to a tradition carefully handed down, dined June 30th 1644, two days preceding the decisive Battle of Marston Moor.”