[NB.2L]                                                               [NB.2]							2
                                                                      
arches [Apse?] too heavy triforium                                          & Choir
with [?] the basest I                                                 Nave    ^  Vaulting. Amiens.
[I have never seen ?]                                                 				p. 104. l .
                                                                      
[drawing]		[diagram]	 a                                               [drawing]
                                                                      
                                                                      
		note battlement                                                     
		effect                                                              Vaulting has look of being stilted
                                                                      above shafts [bends ?] too much and
    Triforium. Amiens [?] apse.  Note                                 does not bear on them. It looks flat
at its base the ugly battlement effect of                             between & blank and destroys all
the knee high bases: Then  the barbarous                              sense of elevation. seen that
intersection of the vertical shafts and                               if it did rest on the shafts I
clerestory: larger at a: and then the                                 could not stand [?]
extraordinary receding & stepped base
of clerestory windows looking as if they
were half blocked up with planks.
This filling is about one 5th  of the
height of clerestory window.

I have never seen so base a triforium.

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