Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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by heavy curtains of magnificent stuffs. Tapestries
covered the walls; and of these at Hampton Court
splendid specimens survive.
Ill
Of the external grandeur of the building which
Wolsey designed, perhaps the best impression can be
obtained from the roofs, or from the north-west of
what was once the tilt-yard. The extent of the
buildings is amazing, and the dignity and magnificence
of the design is no less impressive. The palace, says
Mr. Law, " covers eight acres, and has a thousand
rooms." 1
Such a general view as is obtained from the roof
gives an impression which is certainly not lost when
the details are observed, and when the Palace is
inspected at leisure.
IV
We pass through the "trophy gates" — poor specimens
of the early Hanoverian age at its least interesting
epoch — into the outer Green Court, by theunattractive
barracks at the left (which may have been stables in
their earliest history), to the great Gate-house. On
each side project the beautiful buildings, with their
fine windows, picturesque turrets, and the dull red of
1" History ofHampton Court Palace in Tudor Times," p. 49.