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[diagram]                                                             		delicacy;  and the wall behind and arch mouldings striped
                                                                      		first & then inlaid with lovely patterns in dark green,
                                                                      		russet green or brown: red and white marble.  There is the
                                                                      		closest possible affinity in the character of the whole with
                                                                      		the north door of the west front of Rouen: to that degree
                                                                      		that I suspect that door to have been worked by Italian
                                                                      		artists - for the curious hexagon moulding pierced with
                                                                      		holes which I never could account for of the Rouen door, is
                                                                      		almost a facsimile of a similar hexagonal moulding here,
                                                                      		worked instead with inlaid crosses of white on its black
                                                                      		bars, and vice versa, as opp, fig 1 and underneath these
                                                                      		Genoa doors are panels with leafage and other details as
                                                                      		closely as possible resembling those of Rouen.
                                                                      Foliation.	 Further, a foliation of some small pointed arches above
                                                                      		is in its early luxuriance, just like the rich wreaths of
                                                                      		the Rouen door, it is curious to compare this extravagance
                                                                      		of early workmans with similar extravagances of the
                                                                      		late plantagenet as at Cisors.
                                                                      		At the south west angle there is a detached shaft carried
                                                                      		on a lion, with an elaborately sculptured bracket above;
                                                                      		from the shaft projects a canopied niche;  with a statue
                                                                      		above the niche, the shaft breaks upwards into a circlet
                                                                      		of leafage, as the cusp breaks into a leaf on the early
                                                                      		tomb in St Anastasia, and as frequently at Coutances ;
                                                                      		I look upon this as one of the strange errors of

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