Great Hall - Screens Passage. A screens passage usually separated a formal dining area such as the Great Hall from the cooking, food preparation and storage areas. Today, it serves as a window onto the life of a fifteenth-century merchant for the thousands of tourists who pass through the snickelway on busy summer days.

The door visible across the passage leads to the pantry and buttery, which served as staging areas for the Hall's banquets.

Photo, Lynda Pidgeon, used with permission.