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These columns were presumably acquired for the Victorian Eaton Hall designed by Alfred Waterhouse, which was demolished in 1961. Rupert Morris, in his Guide to Eaton Hall, notes the pavement of the Entrance Hall is composed of choice fragments of antique marbles, brought from Rome and Pompeii, red and green porphyry, siena, green serpentine, blending with white parian, Spanish Jasper and Sicilian to make an exquisitely charming mosaic, our own country has no unimportant share in the work. Wales provides further colour in the green marble from Anglesea; Derbyshire contributes slabs of alabaster for the panelling of the walls; Scotland is worthily represented in the seats of the Central Hall and some of the columns of the Grand Staircase, and the South of England has supplied pillars of granite from the Dartmoor quarries.