a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
surely the only bedroom in London with a minstrel gallery
Examples of 'minstrel gallery' in a sentence
minstrel gallery
The house has sky-high, heavily leaded mullioned windows and a double-height ballroom as big as a church, with a minstrel gallery.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It has three bedrooms, a minstrels' gallery, kitchen, dining room, library and conservatory.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Yet the minstrels' gallery was virtually unused.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
There's another reception room, with a minstrels' gallery and mullioned windows stretching up to a vaulted ceiling.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The beamed main reception room has a double-height ceiling, red tiled flooring and a minstrels' gallery with a library area below accessed via a staircase.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The main building has a baronial hall which seats up to 100 people, a minstrels' gallery and flagstone floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Recent occupants had built mezzanines upstairs and down, slotting eight double bedrooms along a minstrels' gallery beneath the 19ft-high ceiling of the main receptionroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The house has 10 bedrooms, six receptions, a minstrels' gallery and a heated 12-car garage.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The band were more authentic: viols, sackbuts, cornets, bagpipes and serpent, stylishly tootled or tickled from the minstrels' gallery.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The room most frequently used by the production team was the hall, which has a minstrels' gallery.