Fountain Court at Hampton Court Palace, March 2004

Fountain Court

Fountain Court was designed by Sir Christopher Wren for William III to replace Henry VIII's courtyard which stood on the same site.

Above the arched cloisters are the tall windows of the State Apartments. The smaller square windows at attic level lit lodgings provided for important courtiers. Carved frames in the form of lion skins surround the circular windows and on the south side the wreaths frame 12 panels which depict (now much faded) the Labours of Hercules, painted by the French artist Louis Laguerre in 1691-4.

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