Chair
Hall chair, oak, of sgabello form, plain rectangular seat with shaped vertical front and back boards held together by a stretcher fixed at each end by a tusked tenon joint, the back board set into a long notch at the back of the seat and held in place by two inset pieces of oak joined in the middle by a single sliver; the edges of the seat moulded, the front and back boards and stretcher shaped in Gothic form, the boards each divided into two feet by a pointed Gothic arch, the upper back of quatrefoil form with chamfered edges and inset panel painted with A W N Pugin's coat of arms, gules a martlet sable on a bend or.
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