Wyatville's design retains three rooms originally built by May in the 17th century in partnership with the painter Antonio Verrio and carver Grinling Gibbons. The Queen's Presence Chamber, the Queen's Audience Chamber and the King's Dining Room are designed in a Baroque, Franco-Italian style, characterised by "gilded interiors enriched with florid murals", first introduced to England between 1648 and 1650 at Wilton House.Watkin, p. 345. Verrio's paintings are "drenched in medievalist allusion" and classical images.Nicolson, p. 128. These rooms were intended to show an innovative English "baroque fusion" of the hitherto separate arts of architecture, painting and carving.Rowse, p. 95.
