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                                                                      	small and pinched in and the heavyo or rather awkward
                                                                      pedestal still more pinched close to their edge, while the
                                                                      harsh angles of the vaulting pier going s[s]traight
                                                                      down unbanded produces a combination so awkward and harsh
                                                                      that an Italian eye could not have endured it for a mo-
                                                                      ment.  The section of the capital roughly at p 54 ; in
                                                                      which all above a is a wall plinth which runs as a cor-
                                                                      nice round the edge of the vaulting pier, that being
                                                                      considered as wall  whilt it only crowns the capitals of
                                                                      the shafts, the arrangement is seen in my rude sketch
                                                                      p 55 1 and exactly in the same way, the same cornice runs
                                                                      along this wall above and below the edge shafts of the
                                                                      small arches of the transepts p 52 1.
                                                                          Bases.	Next, note that the same pinched character of base is still
                                                                      more remarkable in the pillars of the[a] apse, which have
                                                                      circular plinths;  quite out of proportion - miserably 
                                                                      mean and turning lathe like.  No vestige of angle leaves
                                                                      in any of these meagre bases:  They are Roman b[v]ases or
                                                                      bits of bog like pedestals - tall or low.  The want of
                                                                      perception of proportion is felt doubly coming from
                                                                      Italy.  The capitals of these apse piers, p 58 1
                                                                      show the same fault.
                                                                      The most curious discovery of all though, was a capital of
                                                                      a short shaft at the west end of the nav[s]e;  with
                                                                      leaves rudely cut;  but almost facsimiles - and abso-
                                                                      lutely the same

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