420 THE HOUSE OF GODOLPHIN. 



gateway, set in a square-headed frame with ornamental spandrels, 

 is flanked by two pillars half engaged in the wall. Two sets of 

 heavily-moulded rings embrace each shaft ; one just below the 

 roof of the present colonnade, which runs immediately above 

 the square frame of the gateway, the other about two-thirds of 

 the way up. The upper set of rings seems hardly of sufficient 

 importance to have ever been the true capital of the shaft which 

 probably ran up for some distance higher. But the whole of the 

 upper portion of the gateway, together with the top of the wall, 

 would necessarily have been removed when the colonnade and 

 the rooms over it were added. 



In our attempt to follow the growth of the house, we have 

 now reached the stage depicted in Dr. Borlase's sketch of the 

 picture of Pengersick Castle, a copy of which sketch is given 

 by Mr. Whitley in his paper referred to before. A. reproduction 

 of this copy is shown in fig. 2. Mr. Whitley regards this sketch 

 as a view of the house looking north, in accordance with his 

 opinion that the old house faced south. With all deference to 

 his authority, I persist in regarding that sketch as a view from 

 the north looking south : and I maintain that it is no bad repre- 

 sentation of the house at the stage we have reached, though in 

 his hurry the artist has omitted all the chimneys, which gives it 

 a curious appearance. The plain embattled wall with its 

 large central gateway in the foreground I regard as the north 

 wall and gateway that I have just mentioned. Within this wall 

 is the central quadrangle flanked by the two wings, and at the 

 back is the main body of the house, now represented by the 

 ruined south wall. The little transept-like buildings running 

 out from the wings have since disappeared in the general ruin of 

 the house, with the possible exception of one of those on the 

 right-hand side of the picture, which may represent a still- 

 existing gable-end projecting from the King's Eoom, above the 

 entrance leading from the King's Garden. 



According to Mr. Whitley's view of the sketch, the building 

 in the back-ground is represented by the southern face of the 

 present south wall ; and consequently all the rest of the sketch 

 must represent parts of the house which have been entirely 

 destroyed, and of which the features are now beyond conjecture. 

 It is, of course, impossible to adduce any positive evidence as to 



