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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 lift-
                                                                      ing 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 o;  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, 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 learned-
                                                                      ly[t] classical character;  it looks like a modern revived
                                                                      Greek corsair;  it has various leaf and head work
                                                                      and is always rich;  though seve[r]e in tis classicall[i]t[y]y.
                                                                      This is the only beading of the parts of the pier which
                                                                      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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