Editing Sizergh (section)

== Details ==
[[File:Sizergh Castle against a blue sky, July 2016.jpg|thumb|The tower at Sizergh Castle, as viewed from the South]]
The earliest part of the building is a tower of fourteenth or fifteenth century date.<ref name="EH" />

=== Woodwork ===

Some of the early furnishings date from the time of [[Walter Strickland (died 1569)|Walter Strickland]] (1516–1569) who married Alice Tempest in 1560. She made inventories of the house after her husband's death. These mention three oak armchairs and three chests still in the house.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Megan |last=Wheeler |url=https://regionalfurnituresociety.org/publications/journal/backjournals |title=Early Elizabethan Chests at Sizergh Castle |journal=Regional Furniture |volume=32 |date=2018 |pages=103–25 |publisher=Regional Furniture Society |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>

There are [[oak]]-panelled interiors, including the Inlaid Chamber, where the panelling is inlaid with floral and geometric patterns in pale
poplar and dark [[Bog oak|bog-oak]]. The contents of the Inlaid Chamber were sold to the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in the 1890s and it was displayed as a reconstructed [[period room]].
The return of the panelling to its original location at Sizergh was advocated by among others [[Mark Girouard]], an authority on England's country houses. The panelling returned in 1999 under a long-term loan.<ref name="VandA">{{cite web | url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/l/loans-and-exhibitions/ | title=Inlaid Room at Sizergh Castle | publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum | access-date=31 March 2015}}</ref>  In 2017 it was reported that transfer of ownership to the National Trust had been made formal.<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/02/va-returns-tudor-bedroom-to-original-sizergh-castle-setting |title=V&A returns Tudor bedroom to original Sizergh Castle setting |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |date=2 January 2017 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

The [[bargeboard]]s probably date from the seventeenth century.

=== Paintings ===
The Castle contains a variety of paintings, including the following:

* a collection of portraits of the [[Jacobite succession|Catholic Royal Stuart family]] reflects the Strickland family's links to the Jacobite court in exile at [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]. There are portraits by [[Alexis Simon Belle]], [[painter in ordinary]] to [[James II of England|James VII & II]] and the [[Old Pretender]], of Queen [[Mary of Modena]] and her daughter [[Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart|Princess Louisa Maria]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Belle, Alexis-Simon |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/46466 |first=Edward |last=Corp |date=23 September 2004}}</ref>
* Strickland family portraits, including 
**works by local artist [[George Romney (painter)|George Romney]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/998426 |title=Walter Strickland (1729–1761) |publisher=National Trust Collections |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Savannah |last=Nicholson |date=19 March 2020 |url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/18316954.18th-century-romney-painting-returns-sizergh-castle/ |title=18th century Romney painting returns to Sizergh Castle |newspaper=Westmorland Gazette |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref> 
**a portrait of Mrs. Anne Strickland (the artist's mother) by [[Harriet Strickland]] (1816–1903),<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Cholmeley (1796–1829), Mrs. Jarrard Edward Strickland (the artist's mother) |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/anne-cholmeley-17961829-mrs-jarrard-edward-strickland-132140 |access-date=23 June 2021 |publisher=Art UK}}</ref> and a portrait of Lady Edeline Sackville.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lady-edeline-sackville-18701918-lady-strickland-132135 |title=Lady Edeline Sackville (1870–1918), Lady Strickland |publisher=Art UK |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

=== Portraits gallery ===

<gallery mode="packed" heights="220px">
Image: Mary Matthews (1823-1890), Madame de La Chère (05).jpg|Mary Matthews (1823–1890), Mrs. Julien-Francois-Bertrand de La Chère
Image: Alice de La Chere.jpg|Marie Louise Geneviève Alice de La Chère (1856–1943), wife of Alfred Joseph Gandolfi-Hornyold (1850–1922)
Image: Lord Thomas Strickland Standish (1763-1813).jpg|Thomas Strickland Standish (1763–1813), Lord of [[Standish Hall]]
Image: Henriette Rose Peronne de Sercey (05).jpg|Henriette Rose Peronne de Sercey (1770–1849) by [[François Gérard]]
Image: Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh (1792-1835).jpg|Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh (1792–1835)
Image: Gasparine Ursule Ida de Finguerlin de Bischingen (05).jpg|Ursule Ida de Finguerlin de Bischingen (1805–1846), Mrs. Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh
</gallery>