[M2.84L]                                                              [M2.84]								84
                                                                      
                                                                      		The capitals are various in their spirals and leaves, but
                                                                      		the central shafts, all agree in one main and most remarkable
                                                                      		point they all have the leaves with fillet and spiral
                                                                      		 (Corresponding in manner and treatment to the capital
                                                                      		on No 112):  on the alternate angles of the octagon only;
                                                                      		and as this leaves of course one of the facial angles denuded,
                                                                      		the whole capital looks squinting.  I never saw
                                                                      		this before;  The side pillars have the pure Lombard leaf.
                                                                      		Connected thus with Byzantine work both by its capitals
                                                                      		and its curious excavate mouldings - yet how rude
                                                                      		they are compared with the Byzantine panelling, and yet
                                                                      		how like in arrangement - (fig 2)  this tracery reminds
                                                                      		me also of my unique window in St M. Mater Domini, in the
                                                                      		treatment of its cusp which leaves a fillet - even expanding
                                                                      		a little at the top, none at the bottom.  It is drawn
                                                                      		by eye, about real size, on No 153.
                                                                      		Three of these pairs of arches being set one above the
                                                                      		other up the window;  at the top of all is put, in the
                                                                      		pointed arch, a very barbarous tracery;  in the windows
                                                                      		of the chapel in recess nearest the apse it is as fig 1
                                                                      		No 151 There are two such and all the others are as
                                                                      		fig 5 No 151 [n o?].  The shafts and capitals of these
                                                                      		traceries are just the same as those of all the rest.

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