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

THE CONFESSIONARY 9
quatrefoils of the centre are the badges of Anne,
and her initial joined in a true love-knot with that of
Henry VIII. At the left goes up the staircase to
the great hall. The exterior of the hall takes up the
whole of the north side of the court. Low down are
small windows, which light the cellars, then a great
expanse of wall below the great windows. Between
each window rise strong buttresses, which pass above
the battlements and terminate in small pinnacles. At
the east end of the north side are the two large windows
of three lights which go from floor to ceiling
of the dais. The hall is Henry VIII.'s work, not
Wolsey's.
The Clock-tower behind has Wolsey's arms, and the
rooms of the Cardinal himself stretched along from the
Clock-tower to the southern extremity of the building.
These are all now in private occupation. They preserve
not a little of their ancient features of interest.
The fine mullioned windows, therich panelled ceilings,
often gilded and highly coloured, the decorations recalling
the Cardinal's own living in them — the hat,
crosses, and poleaxes, the motto "Dominus Michi
Adivtor" — the charming panelling of different forms
of the linenfold pattern, preserve the appearance of the
rooms when their great builder still lived in them.
There is one delightful room, rich with no inconsiderable
remnants of beautiful decoration, — it has been
identified with the " Confessary," — which is especially
interesting for its preservation of the ancient features.
The " Confessionary," as Horace Walpole calls it in