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                                                                      			Vienne Cathedral
                                                                      
                                                                      		I shall have it here at Lyons;  and thus I can deduce the
                                                                      		noble rocky plinths of Rouen from the first chimney lifting
                                                                      		of a shaft on its pedestal at Valence.
                                                                      		The profile of spur at P2 and plan of it at fig 2 p 81 1
                                                                      		both belong to the shaft of the aisle, remarkable also
                                                                      		{its complicated double base and} for the Gothic rise in
                                                                      		its cavetto edge at e;  is lower in proportion to the
                                                                      		roll;  as fig 1 in all cases, the greater number of the
                                                                      		spurs are cut into a rude nut or leaf - once or twice into
                                                                      		richly grotesque heads.  The pilaster a is fluted -
                                                                      		so [drawing], It runs yp close to the bottom of the triforium, and
                                                                      		there carries a group of three vaulting shafts {of
                                                                      		exactly the height of triforium} which on most grotesque
                                                                      		capitals bear the three vaulting ribs:
                                                                      		All the other members of the pier except the fluted
                                                                      		pilaster are banded at the impost of the nave arches by
                                                                      		the cornice whose general section is fig 2 but it is varied
                                                                      		slightly in all the piers;  This cornice is carved with
                                                                      		Greek ornaments or Roman of the most severely and learnedly
                                                                      		classical character;  it looks like a modern revived
                                                                      		Greek [?] cornice;  it has various leaf and head work
                                                                      		and is always rich;  though severe in its classicality.
                                                                      		This is the only beading of the parts of the pier which
                                                                      Bases		below have only the base below, x this main idea of which
                                                                      		appears to be simply this cornice, as at all events, the
                                                                      		Valence one,

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