Mansion House, London the columned "Egyptian Hall", was so named because Dance used an arrangement of columns deemed to be "Egyptian" by Vitruvius. No Egyptian motifs were employed. It has twenty niches for sculpture. There was originally an open courtyard, later occupied by a saloon. The residence used to have its own court of law, since the Lord Mayor is the chief magistrate of the City while in office. There were eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed "the birdcage", for women). A famous prisoner here was the early 20th-century suffragette women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst. Mansion House is home to
Mansion of the Doomed car-accident. Mansion of the Doomed Mansion of the Doomed (UK theatrical title: The Terror of Dr. Chaney; also known as "Massacre Mansion", "Eyes of Dr. Chaney" and "House of Blood") is a 1976 American horror film directed by Michael Pataki and starring Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. An insane surgeon finds himself cutting up people for their eyeballs in the hope of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in