What kind of building is this and where??

[d.weaving]

I'll stand being corrected on this one but my father was a pargiter by trade and he called that type of ceiling Angel Beams...it was a very expensive job in its day and he designed and worked on many churches with similar ceilings.
the same effect could also be achieved by very fine netting draped over the beams..tightly .
Derek.

[PrueM]

I still stand by the assumptions that:

a)  this is a mock-up of some kind, or at least a staged piece.  Such a thing needn't necessarily have been particularly good or realistic, especially considering this may have been an amateur photographer.  All the props and their positions indicate this to me.

b)  it's in a crypt and doesn't have a glass ceiling!  (note there are no windows either).  It could also be a Victorian construction made to look like a gothic crypt, but which turned out more like a pastiche of lots of different styles, thus the Eastern/Western church motifs and designs.

c)  that's a lady or a dressmaker's dummy in the back corner - but I think whoever mentioned a double exposure might be right...I wonder then whether this is a deliberate double exposure, attempting to create a "spirit" photograph?  Would fit with the owners of the house....

Doesn't explain why this appears to be a photo of a photo though  

[Paul E]

I think this is one of the guest rooms in a hotel that might be in Sheffield... 

[d.weaving]

Does it come with 'free spirits as well' Paul E. 

[Paul E]

I think we need them so much I might even have to pay for them, derek!

Paul

[d.weaving]

  ...I've just had a spirit on the phone who thinks its worth 20 grand... thats a lot of spirit..time to call the ghost busters in I think..

[LizzieW]

This is all getting very weird!

Liz

[martianuk]

I think the picture is a "double exposure", possibly unintended.

The main picture looks like a reused private chapel, possibly high up in a timber-framed building, causing the warping to the floor.  

Or I could be entirely wrong ...?

I like your way of thinking DW 

As for the rest of you, you've kept me in good spirits all evening 

Kirsty

[dennford]

I think this is one of the guest rooms in a hotel that might be in Sheffield... 

We couldn't even find that one, so what chance on this ?

                                                   Denn