FDA-A.172-2012
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.172-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Chamber Table
Description
Medieval oak table with eight planks and two holes for strapping boys for beating; Edwardian base and legs
Comments
[Many boys carved their names onto walls at Eton College...] 'What none might do, however, was to carve his name or anything else on Chamber table, which was round and massive, was of oak black with age, and scarred deeply over its broad surface; there was a single gaping wound in particular which looked as if one of those before us had wrought mightily with such a poker as three men of the present day should scarcely brandish. But all the scars and wounds were smooth and polished; Chamber table in our day had become a relic and sacrosanct. How old it might be in reality I cannot guess; we certainly supposed it to be coeval with the Founder himself.'
[See: Parker, Eric. Eton in the 'Eighties. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1914, pages 11-12]
[See: Parker, Eric. Eton in the 'Eighties. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1914, pages 11-12]
Description
Dimensions
diameter: 1500mm
height: 690mm
height: 690mm
Material
oak
Physical description
Oak circular low table; with eight planked top and two holes, on a later base with four turned tapering legs and bulbous turned feet
