414 THE HOTTSE OF GODOLPHIN. 



towers were falling into disrepair, or that the house was not 

 sufficiently commodious to support his increasing dignity in the 

 county, determined to rebuild and enlarge his premises. He 

 therefore built forward the east wing, which seems to have re- 

 placed the east tower about this period ; and probably enlarged 

 and re-faced the front of the house, if he did not rebuild it 

 altogether. Whether he added a west wing at the same time or 

 not, it is difficult to say. Considerations of symmetry would 

 seem to call for it, but the present west wing certainly differs in 

 many respects from the east wing, and is generally considered 

 as of later workmanship than it. 



So far as we can trace it, then, the home of Sir William 

 Godolphin appears to have consisted of the main house itself, 

 part of the north face of which survives as the present ruined 

 south wall ; possibly of two wings running south from this, which 

 Mr. Whitley indicates as " ruins," but which have now entirely 

 disappeared ; and the present east wing which ran forwards and 

 contained the dining hall below and a set of apartments above. 

 Mr. Whitley thinks that the ruined wall represents the south 

 and not the north face of the original building ; the rooms of 

 which, in his opinion, occupied the site of the present courtyard. 

 Careful examination of the wall in question leads me to a wholly 

 opposite conclusion. This wall bounds the south side of the 

 courtyard, connecting the present east and west wings. It is 

 now but a single story in height, and is surmounted by a battle- 

 ment with continuous vertical and horizontal capping. This 

 capping, however, is finished only on the northern face of the 

 battlement, and is not worked on the other side which was most 

 probably invisible in its original position. In the wall is a door- 

 way, eastwards of the true centre, and the portion between the 

 door-way and the east wing is mere blank wall. This portion, 

 with the exception of the lower foot or two, has been rebuilt, 

 and may have originally contained a window similar to those on 

 the other side of the door which are about to be mentioned. 

 Between the door- way and the west wing the wall contains three 

 windows, square-headed, and with stone muUions. The two 

 lateral windows are large four-lighted openings, while the 

 central window of two lights is of the same height as the others, 

 but half the width. Below the windows on the southern side the 



