[M2.139L]                                                             [M2.139]								139
                                                                      
                                                                      		of the upper arcade (inside) by Marc Antonio Memmo) 1625)
                                                                      		Now the three lower arches, of which b is the first pier,
                                                                      		are round; and equable and they are face work, set in
                                                                      		front of the three openings which are seen in the old
                                                                      		plan between the piers p. q. r. s. which I have coloured
                                                                      		red for clearness.  Now these old piers still remain (with
                                                                      		the arches they carried) and I cannot see why the pier r is
                                                                      		made so much wider in the plan than the pier q though it
                                                                      		is so a little; both have face shafts on the inside to
                                                                      		carry the vaulting, and the pier r, measured round the
                                                                      		face shaft [?] thus [diagram] is about 5 " 10 across;
                                                                      		and the pier q in same way 5 " 8  They are all part of the
                                                                      		Carta door work, the passage through being all of a piece,
                                                                      		except the face shafts and sub arches of the  vaulting,
                                                                      		about which especially as the shafts are not in the old
                                                                      		plan, I have some doubt;  there is an awkwardness about
                                                                      		their junctions which however I thought it not worth while
                                                                      		to examine The old piers carry pointed arches;  two
                                                                      		wide and one narrow between: stilted to raise it to same
                                                                      		height, with banded capitals and cherubs heads of rich and
                                                                      		delicate work the whole, though of late and bad Gothic,
                                                                      		still quite grand in feeling, with coloured marbles and
                                                                      		manly workmanship

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