12. Grand Hall Second Floor and The Poussin Gallery

Mr. Hunt's architectural trademark, called "vistas" provides glimpses of each room accessed from the hall. The irregular shape of the Francis I style hall accommodates the shapes of adjoining rooms.

The doorways are elaborately ornamented with sculptured staff work, grained to match the diamond-paneled oak doors with a cartouche flanked by cherubs leading horses. These motifs appear throughout the castle, exactly 30, the same number as stalls in the stable. In all of the French doors to the former loggia, now the salon, are shutters of green hand hammered cathedral glass matching that in the first floor Grand Hall.