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                                                                      		equally deep, but much more simple:  one of their
                                                                      Traceries with relative depth of moulding outside at
                                                                      p 40 1 N fig 1  The pe[a]netrations are about the right
                                                                      size, and the tracery should be so adjusted as to be of
                                                                      equal breadth:  the design is not a bad one:  remarkable
                                                                      	 chiefly for the pesistance of the round arch, and for the 
                                                                      throwing up of the lateral foils of the 4 foil a in or-
                                                                      der to make its upper and under foils equal:  the
                                                                      effect of the tracery is howver a good deal spoiled by
                                                                      its bad and singular rib section b;  the cusps separate
                                                                      clumsily by the widening of the cavetti and are of the
                                                                       same section, as seen in dotted line;  it affects also
                                                                      the lateral shaft, c though the central ones are cylin-
                                                                      drical, another curious point about these windows is
                                                                      that the stipes of serpentine with which the whole façade
                                                                      is barred horizontally slope down to the outside of its
                                                                      moulding in voussoirs fig 2 p 41 1.
                                                                      		The cornice running up each side of the broad gable
                                                                      pediment isvery beautiful, though quaint, and the eye
                                                                      does not enough feel the bracket support of its
                                                                      columns, p 40, and profile 50 1 fig 2 N.  The quatrefoil
                                                                      squares with rhomboid between are not adjusted to the
                                                                      niches below;  but come in all manner of places;
                                                                      rather more than two squares to each arch:  their 4 foil
                                                                      remarkable for its narrow and broad leaves, p 40 1 fig 3
                                                                      Shadows taken at one in the afternoon to-day.

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