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                                                                      	delicacy;  and the wall behind and arch mouldings striped
                                                                      first and then inlaid with lovelypatterns in dark green,
                                                                      russet green or brown: red and white marble.  There is the
                                                                      closest possible afinity 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
                                                                      a[.]rtists - 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 rese[n]mblinf 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 extrava-
                                                                      gance 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 scu,ptured breacket above;
                                                                      from the shaft projects a conopied niche;  with a statue
                                                                      above the niche, the shaft breaks upwards into aicirclet
                                                                      of leafage, as the cusp breaks into a leaf on the early
                                                                      tomb in St Anastasia, and as frequently as Contances ;
                                                                      I look upon this as one of the strange errors of

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