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                                                                      				   BACON PALACE
                                                                      		fig 3 p 11 in which the shaded projection marked the positn[io]
                                                                      of a trace on the soffit of every arch, which appears
                                                                      like that of a cusp or tracery chiselled awry:  the arches
                                                                      are bricked up:  so that the depth to back of capital
                                                                      cannot be seen:  I regret the injury of this palace more
                                                                      than all I have seen yet.
                                                                      I did not get up to the top story on the facade, seen
                                                                      in Dog: but I did behind, when a noble single shaft
                                                                      in the middle of the alley bridge carries a horizontal
                                                                      plinth fig 1 P 12 1 Palace book with magnificent bold
                                                                      dentil.  The shaft is like one of those of the upper story
                                                                      of facade noble leaf head - simple and swelling Fig 2
                                                                      same page - with a base - fig 3 same page - having
                                                                      leaves to the angles as usual - but especially single ones
                                                                      hard edged.                  so but thoroughly well out and
                                                                      very grand - and this shaft stands on plinth fig 4 with
                                                                      anothergrand dentil below, under this come the arches des-
                                                                      cribed at p 112 above, and vid Dog;  the thing in
                                                                      the centre is a large antique like Roman emperor head -
                                                                      under a starred semicircular canopy, and supported on
                                                                      a vast bracket set on a small shaft in the form of a
                                                                      capital, between the two arches, as opposite:[%]  the carving
                                                                      of the huge capital is very fine.

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