Bedingfield Inn

Kitchen

Exterior view of the Kitchen attached to the Inn by raised and covered walkway.

The original two room kitchen had been removed. This one is the same period and is the gift of Mrs. J.D. Singer, Sr. of Lumpkin. It was the kitchen to the Irvin home in Lumpkin. The room on the southis set up as a functioning kitchen. The room on the north is a dining room for servants or quick casual family meals.

South Room

The roasting jack hanging in the fireplace was used to rotate meat over the open fire.

The pastry roller is earthenware, about 1820, is on loan from Mrs. Mary Burns of Columbus, Georgia.

Cooking fireplace in the Kitchen (South Room)

North Room

The Table in the center of the room is a work table. It is a gift from Mrs. Hamp Barr.

In the dining room is a local store display case, dated 1848 on the inside. It is signed by Mr. T.G. Barr for J & B Clark. It is pine painted yellow, has paneled doors and glass paneled upper doors. It was given to the Bedingfield Inn by the Roanoke Chapter of the DAR. Note the many imperfections in the hand blown glass of this unique piece.

The collection of Staffordshire in the cabinet was a gift from Mrs. Christopher Sheridan and De Sales Harrison.

The yellow side table was in the house when the Historical Commission purchased it and may have been in the Inn originally.

Local store display case located in Kitchen dining room

The unusual pottery pieces were originally from Mrs. Bill Singer’s family in Pennsylvania.