Editing Chartwell (section)

==== Entrance hall and inner hall, library and drawing room ====
Designed by Tilden, replacing a wood-panelled earlier hall, the halls lead onto the library, the drawing room and Lady Churchill's sitting room.{{sfn|Garnett|2008|pp=46–47}}
The library contains some major pieces of Churchilliana, including the 1942 [[siren suit]] portrait by [[Frank O. Salisbury]]{{efn|A. L. Rowse described the picture in a record of his visit in 1955. Churchill had invited Rowse to comment on the [[Tudor era|Tudor]] sections of his ''[[A History of the English-Speaking Peoples]]'' and Rowse subsequently described the visit in a memoir.<ref name="auto" />}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1102450|title=Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, DL, OM, CH, PC, MP (1874–1965) -Item 1102450|author=National Trust Collections|publisher=The National Trust|website=www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk|access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> and a wall-mounted model of [[Arromanches-les-Bains|Port Arromanches]], depicting the [[Normandy landing]] site with its [[Mulberry harbour]] on D-Day + 109, the 23rd of September 1944.{{sfn|Fedden|1974|pp=29–30}} The drawing room was used mainly for receiving guests, and for playing bezique. It contains one of the house's most important paintings,{{sfn|Fedden|1974|p=25}} a view of [[Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series)|Charing Cross Bridge]] by [[Claude Monet]].{{efn|Robin Fedden's 1968 guide describes this as a view of [[London Bridge]] and David Lough's study of Churchill's finances, ''No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money'', titles it ''Ponte de Londres''.{{sfn|Lough|2015|p=406}} The National Trust Collection records it as Pont de Londres (Charing Cross Bridge).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1102455|title=Pont de Londres (Charing Cross Bridge, London) 1102455|author=National Trust Collections |publisher=The National Trust|website=www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk|access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref> The painting was a gift from [[Emery Reves]], Churchill's American publisher.{{sfn|Fedden|1974|p=25}}}}{{sfn|Garnett|2008|p=52}} This unfinished work, undertaken by Monet from his balcony at the [[Savoy Hotel]], subsequently formed a significant element in the negotiations between the executors of Churchill's estate and the [[National Land Fund]] over the gifting of many of Chartwell's contents to the National Trust in lieu of [[death duties]].{{sfn|Lough|2015|p=406}}