416 THE HOirSE OF QODOLPHIN. 



flooring of St. Ives Church, at the point of intersection of the 

 nave with the transverse passages leading to the aisles, a circular 

 design representing the Royal Arms of England during the 

 Tudor period. 



It is possible, then, that this circular cracked slab at 

 Godolphin may be a solitary remnant of the paving of a large 

 entrance-hall, into which the ornamental door- way opened. Any 

 design which it may ever have borne has been long obliterated ; 

 and the stone itself may owe its origin to quite other causes. 

 There it lies, however, and its position seems distinctly 



The east wing affords some glimpse of the old interior. The 

 side facing the garden has been completely restored during the 

 present century, but the rooms and wall looking on to the court- 

 yard retain many of their original features. Looked at from 

 the quadrangle this wing presents a perfectly plain face of wall, 

 now covered with plaster, pierced by six windows, three above 

 and three below. The windows of the lower tier are large squares 

 (with the exception of the middle one, which is higher than the 

 others) divided by three mullions into four tall lights. Each light 

 ends above in a very obtusely arched head, with sunken spandrels 

 between the curve of the arch and the continuation of the verti- 

 cal mullion. These are the only windows with pointed lights in 

 the whole existing building. They bear a close resemblance to 

 the window in the South Transept of Breage Church, which win- 

 dow is also of four lights, and differs from these at Godolphin 

 only in the fact that the head of the whole window is a very 

 flattened arch instead of a horizontal lintel, and that the small 

 spandrels between the mullions and the arches of the lights are 

 pierced at Breage and only sunk at Godolphin. It is, however, 

 not an uncommon form of window in Cornish architecture 

 of the XVIth century, and several similar examples may be 

 found in the churches of West Cornwall ; e.g. the aisle windows 

 of St. Buryan Church, which, with the exception of containing 

 three lights instead of four, are counterparts of these at 

 Godolphin house. The upper tier of windows in the east wing 

 consists of smaller squares, each divided by mullions into three 

 plain rectangular lights. Each of the six windows is surmounted 

 by its own hood-moulding, which is rectangular in form with 



