Belvoir Castle’s Chinoiserie wallpaper and “Chinese Rooms”

I’ve just been reading Catherine Bailey’s The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery (a good read by the way – though more about World War One than anything overtly Gothic). The book centres around  Belvoir Castle (the Duke of Rutland’s residence) and notes the castle as being famous for its Chinoiserie rooms (Bailey notes several “Chinese rooms”) and, in particular, the exquisite Chinoiserie wallpaper that covered many other rooms. Belvoir (in Grantham Leicestershire)  has been overhauled quite a bit and seems to do a nice turn in weddings and I’m afraid I don’t have any old shots – but the wallpaper remains Chinoiserie.