The ceiling has a rich entablature, the frieze of which is of rinceaux of acanthus leaves, with a small family coat of arms flanked by ostrich and a dragon in the centre of each wall, this supports the deep octagonal coffered-cove, each coffer containing a rosette, rising to 32 feet in height to the flat area of the ceiling, also coffered but with a mixture of octagonal, hexagonal and square coffers.