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                                                                       ST MARKS  ATRIUM DOOR.
                                                                      		but as mikght have been expected, both the horizontal
                                                                      shoulders gave way under the weight of wall:  and the
                                                                      rest, seen in No 116, begins where the leaf upper moulding
                                                                      is broken away behind the angels head;  its course is then
                                                                      concealed by the tracery but the tracery itself is of
                                                                      course broken in its weakest part, behind the angels
                                                                      shortest wing, and so down under its hand coming out in a
                                                                      flaky fracture above the stilt on the other side the same
                                                                      fractures has taken place in the same points, but more
                                                                      destructively - crashing the ornaments to pieces, they
                                                                      have been stuck in again shapelessly, mi[x]xed with bits
                                                                      of the leaf plinth   and the new portion of leaf moulding
                                                                      has been fitted in below the angel.  The entire mosaic
                                                                      of the tympanum has, I suppose been added for support;
                                                                      with the rose and leaf architeave, and the whole further
                                                                      strengthened by a thick iron bar.  The smaller band of
                                                                      jointed masonry round the arch is in a dark li[k]lac
                                                                      brown spotted marble, facing merely, like the rest of
                                                                      the wall.  The leaf traceries which form the background
                                                                      to the figures are deep,y undercut, attached only here
                                                                      and there to the back in the angle of the arch under the
                                                                      angels longer wing, the left hand angels left wing is
                                                                      a recess cut deep down behind the roll, enough to
                                                                      put one’s hand into, of which I cannot conceive the
                                                                      use.  Fig 2 No 116 shows the mode in which the leaf
                                                                      roll stops on the flat dark stone of the wall, and is
                                                                      changed above into

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