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                                                                      	of the upper arcade (inside) by Marc Antonio Menno) 1625)
                                                                       Now the three lower arches, of which b is the first pier,
                                                                      are round; and equable and they are face work, set in
                                                                      front of the three openings which are seen in the old
                                                                      plan between the piers p. qp r. 8. which I have coloured
                                                                      red for clearness.  Now these old piers still remain (with
                                                                      the arches they carried) and I cannot see why the pier r is
                                                                      made so much wider in the plan than the pier q though it
                                                                      is so a little; both have face shafts on the inside to
                                                                      carry the vaulting, and the pier r, measured round the
                                                                      facesshaft thus             is about 5 " 10 across;
                                                                      and the pier q in same way 5 " 8  They are all part of the
                                                                      Carta door work, the passage through being all of apiece,
                                                                      except the face shafts and sub arches of the  vaulting,
                                                                      about which especially as the shafts are not in the old
                                                                      plan, I have some doubt;  there is an awkwardness about
                                                                      their junctions which however I thought it not worth while
                                                                      to examine The old piers carry pointed arches;  two
                                                                      wide and one narrow beteen: stilted to raise ti to same
                                                                      height, with banded capitals and cherubs heads of rich and
                                                                      delicate work the whole, though of late and bad Gothic,
                                                                      still quite good in feeling, with coloured marbles and
                                                                      manly workmanship

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