The gallery dates back to the late 14th century. It has two floors and surrounds the inner quadrangular courtyard. Originally, there was a well in the middle of the courtyard.
The "Rescue maintenance works on the Lidzbark Castle's gallery" project executed in the years 2010–2011 contributed significantly to broadening knowledge about the gallery. Archaeological works, the aim of which was to search for the medieval well in the courtyard, confirmed the chronicle mentions of a waterline built as early as in the times of Bishop Henryk Sorbom (1373 –1401), which carried water to the castle via two routes. The no longer existing wooden well in the middle of the courtyard created during the time when an orphanage operated there in the 19th century probably contributed to the removal of the previous one.
The gallery, dating back to 1380, has two floors. On the bottom floor it is vaulted in a cross-rib fashion, whereas on the top floor – using triple supports, while the arcade arches are supported by octagonal pillars of Gotland limestone giving the impression of Gothic palatial architecture of the highest class.
Presented in the bottom part of the gallery are cannon barrels signed with the crest of Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski (1741–1746), the last but one great resident of the Lidzbark Castle. The paintings discovered during the project decorate all the walls of twenty spans of the gallery's upper floor level, and their legibility amounts to about 75%. These over six-hundred–year-old paintings with religious themes, created on the initiative of Henryk Sorbom and executed by Czech masters, enrich the castle to reach a scale unseen in this part of Europe. Opposite the gate neck there is the patron of the residence – St. Catherine with the Saints Dorothy and Barbara. Other scenes include: Lamentation of Christ, St. Agatha with the Saints Agnes and Apolonia, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Saints Elizabeth of Turin and Mary Magdalene, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, Dormition of Mary, the Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Scourging, the Gethsemane Prayer, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus at the Temple, Scene from the crucifixion, the Final Judgment – the saved, the Final Judgment – hell, Crowning with Thorns. Noteworthy in the west wing of the gallery are the Gothic portals and the later one funded by Bishop Szymon Rudnicki, as well as two funded by Cardinal Michał Radziejowski (1679–1689). In the south wing, under the main roof, on the face of the wall there is the sundial funded by Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski in 1746.
The "Rescue maintenance works on the Lidzbark Castle's gallery" project executed in the years 2010–2011 contributed significantly to broadening knowledge about the gallery. Archaeological works, the aim of which was to search for the medieval well in the courtyard, confirmed the chronicle mentions of a waterline built as early as in the times of Bishop Henryk Sorbom (1373 –1401), which carried water to the castle via two routes. The no longer existing wooden well in the middle of the courtyard created during the time when an orphanage operated there in the 19th century probably contributed to the removal of the previous one.
The gallery, dating back to 1380, has two floors. On the bottom floor it is vaulted in a cross-rib fashion, whereas on the top floor – using triple supports, while the arcade arches are supported by octagonal pillars of Gotland limestone giving the impression of Gothic palatial architecture of the highest class.
Presented in the bottom part of the gallery are cannon barrels signed with the crest of Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski (1741–1746), the last but one great resident of the Lidzbark Castle. The paintings discovered during the project decorate all the walls of twenty spans of the gallery's upper floor level, and their legibility amounts to about 75%. These over six-hundred–year-old paintings with religious themes, created on the initiative of Henryk Sorbom and executed by Czech masters, enrich the castle to reach a scale unseen in this part of Europe. Opposite the gate neck there is the patron of the residence – St. Catherine with the Saints Dorothy and Barbara. Other scenes include: Lamentation of Christ, St. Agatha with the Saints Agnes and Apolonia, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Saints Elizabeth of Turin and Mary Magdalene, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, Dormition of Mary, the Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Scourging, the Gethsemane Prayer, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus at the Temple, Scene from the crucifixion, the Final Judgment – the saved, the Final Judgment – hell, Crowning with Thorns. Noteworthy in the west wing of the gallery are the Gothic portals and the later one funded by Bishop Szymon Rudnicki, as well as two funded by Cardinal Michał Radziejowski (1679–1689). In the south wing, under the main roof, on the face of the wall there is the sundial funded by Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski in 1746.
