he allegorical theme here is Administration of Justice, and we see it reflected first in the keystone over the entrance that symbolizes Sympathy. Flanking the keystone are reliefs of an anchor and a balance indicating Hope and Justice.

bove the portal, at the second story spandrels, a bowed and bearded figure with outstretched hands demands Repentence from a youthful figure with chin in hand. A mother scolds a child in a display of Admonition in the other spandrel..

assing back through the portal toward the courtyard, notice the inset panels on either side of the archway. Carvings of thorns, thistles, and writhing serpeants are there to remind transgressors that difficult times are ahead. Two ferocious lion heads protrude from the walls and appear to guard against any passage back to the outside. Directly ahead, in the keystone above the archway to the single story chamber, is the "deep lined featured, painfully intense" figurehead representing Remorse - complete with chains about its forehead. Even the gray granite walls of the portal seem cold and foreboding, and the iron grating covering windows and doors complete the feeling that this enterance was never intended to be inviting.