418 THE HOUSE OF GODOLPHIN. 



wall which now forms the western face of the scullery was built 

 when that portion of the house was taken down, and was lighted 

 with the mullioned windows obtained from the parts destroyed. 

 In the first place this piece of wall is unplastered, whereas the 

 whole of the east face of the quadrangle, with which it is con- 

 tinuous, is coated with plaster, as if to protect an older and more 

 decaying surface from the weather. In the second place the 

 windo^vs in the scullery wall, if regarded as belonging to the 

 series within the court-yard, entirely destroy the symmetry of the 

 latter. The upper window, it is true, might be one of the upper 

 tier in the east wing, being simply a plain square-headed win- 

 dow of three lights, with nothing distinctive about it, and 

 apparently the commonest form of window in the old house. 

 But the inclusion of the lower window would be fatal. Not only 

 would it thrust the taller middle v/indow of the wing out of its 

 commanding position in the centre ; but also it would conclude 

 a series of pointed four-light windows, distinctly ornamental 

 in character, with a plain square-headed window of three 

 lights similar to the window above. Finally, if the old house 

 occupied the ground to the south of this embattled wall, as I 

 have shown reason to believe, I cannot conceive upon what these 

 windows can have looked out, if they were in their present 

 position at that time. 



Such, then, appears to have been the house of Sir William 

 Godolphin ; and as such, probably, it passed into the hands of 

 his nephew Sir Francis. The existence of a west wing might 

 be conjectured to complete the symmetry of the house : but the 

 present west wing differs considerably from its fellow across the 

 court-yard, and is considered by Mr. Whitley to be Jacobean. 

 The surface of the wall facing the court-yard is here relieved by 

 three attempts at decoration ; a small moulded cornice, which 

 sets off the top of the wall, a moulded string-course between 

 the upper and lower stories, and another string-course running 

 just below the lower tier of windows. The windows are all 

 mullioned and square-headed. Those of the upper storey are of 

 the ordinary three-light pattern, and do not call for any particu- 

 lar notice, except that there are four instead of three as in the 

 east wing. Below the southernmost one is a doorway with a 

 pointed arch, which led into the building from the court-yard. 



