[St M.27L]                                                            [St M.27]							27
                                                                      
	[drawing]                                                            			First Porch
                                                                      
				It is                                                             [diagram]
			not easy to                                                        Plain slab  no dentil
			draw however                                                       inch joint
			but it is in this                                                  Bead moulding [runs onto Page 27L] rude
			way                                                                wall
		and interstices touched                                             
		with gold                                                           					  This is one of
                                                                      					  the rudest leaf mouldings
                                                                      					  though rich which
                                                                      					  I have met with
                                                                      					 It is all worked in rude
                                                                      					ridges like the Fass white
                                                                      					palace near Rialto.
                                                                      					but exquisite effect given to
                                                                      					   it by the gold mosaic. rudely
                                                                      					cemented into its interstices.
                                                                      					It joins the time of all the rude
                                                                      					   leaf cornices
                                                                      
                                                                      		- rolled leaf border. in ruder
                                                                      		ridges in
                                                                      		the leaves
                                                                      		no bearing
                                                                      the ridges in centres	[diagram]
                                                                       - instead of depressions
                                                                      a form quite new to me
                                                                      i e	[diagram]
                                                                       - and perhaps the simplest possible
                                                                      
                                                                      					Done

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