Editing Sizergh (section)

=== 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.