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                                                                      	The capitals are various in their spirals and leaves, but
                                                                      the central shafts, all agree in one main and most remarka-
                                                                      ble 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 orf course one of the facial angles de-
                                                                      manded, 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 l[,]eaves a fillet - even expand-
                                                                      ing a little at the top, none at the bottom.  It is drawn
                                                                      by eye, about real size, on No 153.
                                                                      Thr[o]ee 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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