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                                                                      	  No 183, 184  LYONS  CATHEDRAL  VIENNE CATHEDRAL
                                                                      
                                                                      	of pure Gothic, over the northern door in the side;  a row
                                                                      of signs of zodiac indescribably rich - sharp and quaint -
                                                                      centaur for Sagittarius as usual, is alost too pure in
                                                                      cutting to be Romanesque - some rose leaf capitals in the
                                                                      door way are also exquisite but the gem of the whole is
                                                                      a bracket at the east end of the north aisle;  in the
                                                                      elevated part of it, up the steps, this bracket is a per-
                                                                      fect basketful of rose leaves and stems - undercut - and 
                                                                      thrown out with a precision and lightness which the Byzan-
                                                                      tines never attained.
                                                                       Lyonz Cathedral:  Nave piers No 183.  The coloured part is the pier it-
                                                                      self - the space between the little detached shaft being 
                                                                      about ½ or ¾ of an inch clear of the great one, and a b 
                                                                      fig 1 about 2 " 0½ I can pretty well guess at relations of
                                                                      all.
                                                                      	In order to understand the relations not that the vaulting
                                                                      is as in fig 3, so that the nave piers carry alternately
                                                                      one vaulting rib, and three;  The transverse rib is always
                                                                      carried by the shaft A:  Now the nave arch is of two orders[,]
                                                                      as far as I could see of the section fig 1 No 184  Of
                                                                      these the sub arch is always carried by the shaft B: (fig
                                                                      1. No 183) and the first order by the shaft C.  In addi-
                                                                      tion to this, when there is on the diagonal vaulting rib
                                                                      in the alternate piers, the shaft C.

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