The beautiful fan vault ceiling of the entrance porch. 'The spaces between the ribbing of the fans are filled alternately with an anchor and a slipped trefoil bearing the initials W.S. The presence of the anchor places the completion of the porch after the year 1523, when Lord Southampton [ie, Fitzwilliam] became High Admiral, while it is not likely to be later than 1530. In the spandrels and bosses, we find Queen Catherine's pomegranate badge, which a favourite of the King would not have used after the divorce question took definite shape'
(Tipping, 'Cowdray' 93--4).