[M2.184L]                                                             [M2.184]							184
                                                                      
[diagrams]                                                            Thin bells	great fault of this capital is its edge bell - looking 
                                                                      		a tin saucepan utterly mean and weak.
                                                                      		I must look for what papellote means in the account of
                                                                      		Lucifer above p 181, and see if I can find origin of these
                                                                      		knots, for they are not the least like leaves, and are utterly
                                                                      Dotty		harsh in all their contours.  The principle of dotting
                                                                      architecture	all the mouldings is a bad one to begin with and must be
                                                                      		criticised in detail but if it is to be done, better with
                                                                      		ball flowers as at Salisbury then with curl papers   Flat
                                                                      		roses however also occur often in the hollows of the
                                                                      		mouldings here;  Bourges and are very beautiful
                                                                      		the cavettos of the wheel window over central porch have
                                                                      		them:  these are very deep, and in their under turns,
                                                                      Restorations	each cavetto has a little gutter to let water out of it.
                                                                      		Portions have been restored in which the gutter is of
                                                                      		course missed.  The foliage round this window is in
                                                                      		severity - sweep and simplicity, the most admirable {of the
                                                                      		cathedral} in the style opposite cut as deep in the lobes
                                                                      		as section a and the curves swept with the most admirable
                                                                      		precision, the centre of the window is restored with
                                                                      		this foliage imitated, miserably inferior - the sweep
                                                                      		of the curve missed and the ridges jagged and all its
                                                                      		beauty gone.
                                                                      		Fig 7.  No 194.  is the junction of a second order of 
                                                                      		tracery

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