The Jacobean Costessey Hall inherited by Sir Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford (1802-84) in 1851, had been partly gothicised by Sir George, 8th Baron Stafford with assistance from the architect John Chessell Buckler (d.1894). This chimneypiece which celebrates the Stafford lineage, was commissioned around the time of his marriage to Emma Eliza Gerard in 1859, and bears their combined arms on the far right top escutcheon.

A design for a Gothic fireplace in the Drawing Room at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire from the Office of John Gregory Crace (1809-1889) to the Design of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), was sold at Christie's London, 13 December 1988, lot 151.