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                                                                      	early, and full of interest.  On the south side:  still fin
                                                                      but less perfect:  To the front,  very far inferior:
                                                                      These are three:  only the difference between the north
                                                                      and south sides not well defined:  Then the corcketing and
                                                                      statues on the finials are of the latest and most
                                                                      extravagant tone, of most delicate marble, while the
                                                                      archivolts are of Istrian stone.  They are wonderfully
                                                                      cut in and out - but utterly vulgar and distorted in
                                                                      thought and execution - if I saw them on Milan cathedral
                                                                      of which they strongly remind me;  or in a stone
                                                                      mason’s yard in the New road, I should speak of them with
                                                                      nothing  but detestation.  They have heads of the common-
                                                                      est classical types - and every now and then in the cast
                                                                      of their draperies - reminded me of the statue of George
                                                                      Canning at the Hostelrie so named of Cold Har[s]bour lane.
                                                                      The finial statues and upper parts of the finials which
                                                                      have the late bracket ornaments  are of the same date;
                                                                      finally in the curious niches with cabled shafts leaning
                                                                      against the curve of the archivolts, on the north side,
                                                                      have been inserted some modern monstrosities of statues,
                                                                      with storm gutters worked in the same piece with them,
                                                                      literally fit for nothing but a ship captain’s garden at
                                                                      Bermondesey.
                                                                      San Giotto.  Its beautiful little cloister has a         section used in
                                                                      round arches, but has not altogether      a genuine
                                                                      look.  Its

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