The magnificent hall seat is Gothic-fretted and crocketed in the romantic 'Elizabethan' style promoted with George IV's aggrandisement of Windsor Castle. In particular it relates to a pattern in the 1826 edition of Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, etc., which was dedicated to the King. Ackermann noted certain ancient chairs that 'are remarkable for the beauty of their design and the richness of their ornaments'. His patterns for 'Gothic Chairs' were admired for their 'tracery' and 'massy' grandeur and were 'composed from the best authorities in the florid style'. No doubt the inspiration of both A.C. Pugin and A.W.N. Pugin (d. 1852) lay behind these florid compositions, and the younger Pugin in particular favoured the form of chamfered edge found on this seat.