The dining-room is well proportioned, being 50 feet by 37 feet. The simplicity of its design is not owing to any deficiency of ornament; on the contrary, its several enrichments are gorgeous; but in comparison with the other state apartments, which are profusely decorated, it is characterized by a simplicity peculiarly elegant. Springing from the corners of the room, four ribs extend their ramified tracery over the ceiling, in the centre of which their borders of wreathed foliage unite, and thence from a richly carved boss is suspended a large and noble chandelier. The sideboard stands in an arched and highly enriched recess, and placed at each end of the room are two canopied niches, containing statues by _Westmacott_. At the lower end are those of Sir Robert le Grosvenor, who distinguished himself in the crusades, and of Mary, Lady Grosvenor at the time of the Revolution. Those at the upper end of the room represent Sir Gilbert le Grosvenor, who came over from France at the time of the Norman invasion, with his uncle, Hugh Lupus, and Joan or Jane Lady Grosvenor, heiress of Eaton in the reign of Edward the Fourth. The room contains full-length portraits of the late Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, by _Jackson_, _R.A._; Abigail meeting David, by _Rubens_; and the Judgment of Paris, after Rubens, by _Peters_. The walls of the dining-room are richly ornamented. The ante-drawing-room is very elegant; its decorations, in the Alhambresque style, are peculiarly rich. It contains three most beautiful bookcases, chaste in design and exquisitely finished.