Howsham Hall, the Porch

Slide 3a: The porch gives diginty to the front with its round headed doorway, its shields of arms and its coupled fluted columns of Ionic and Corinthian orders. The rooms are flooded with sunlight and the outlook to the woodland surroundings is singularly rich and beautiful. Jacobean architecture has given us much that is delightful in the English form of the Renaissance but nothing better than such exquisite work as we observe in the pricipal front of Howsham Hall.