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The Red Hall and Stairs

The Hall is dominated by a portrait of Evelyn, 4th Countess of Carnarvon, painted posthumously by John Rogers Herbert in 1877. Evelyn Stanhope married the 4th Earl of Carnarvon in 1861. After the death, in 1871, of her brother, whose portrait hangs opposite his sister’s, the Chesterfield estates in Nottinghamshire were inherited by the Herbert family.

The Oak Staircase

Thomas Allom's great oak staircase fills the tall Italianate tower built by Sir Charles Barry in 1842. Designed to appear as if it is at the centre of the Castle, it is actually slightly to one side. Messrs Cox and Son of London took nearly a year to carve and install the staircase between December 1861 and October 1862.

On the lower flight of the staircase is a marble statue of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon as a child, with his sister Evelyn, commissioned from the Italian sculptor Tenerani while they were on a visit to Rome with their father in 1838.

The Bedrooms

There are 11 bedrooms, some of which can be seen by visitors, and 40-50 on the next floors which are no longer used and cannot be viewed by visitors.

The opulent Stanhope bedroom is decorated in rich red, recalling its decoration for the visit of the Prince of Wales in December 1895.

The Arundel bedroom and its dressing room were used as Operating Theatre and Recovery Room respectively during the First World War, when Almina, the 5th Countess, (with Lord Kitchener's blessing) turned the Castle into a military hospital, heading the nursing staff herself.