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                                                                      	          BOURGES CATHEDRAL
                                                                      
                                                                      	note that in the piers described on No 188 which have the
                                                                      three ribs to carry - diagonals added;  are larger than
                                                                      the alternate ones, and their lower shafts are set further
                                                                      apart.  Therefore in the small pier the section is as fig 1
                                                                      No 189, in the large the basic members are as fig 2 and
                                                                      the rest of the arrangement the same.
                                                                       The figures in fig 1 show levsls in No 190 where same
                                                                      letters are used.  I have not before seen a case of system-
                                                                      atic projection of the roll c over d. all round except
                                                                      at angles.
                                                                      Bases.	It is better than the irregular projection at Lyons - the 
                                                                      outer line at g2 is right, and e e2 should be parallel
                                                                      with it.  In No 190 the straight cut hollow of the upper
                                                                      section is a certain fact in some of the bases;  the
                                                                      elliptical line is conjectural one in other.  This whole
                                                                      hollow is a mistake; in architecture, as most of the rest
                                                                      of the bas, but the hollow especially looking as if the
                                                                      shaft were loose in the socket;  It is a curious
                                                                      instance of beautiful lines misapplied.  The angle leaves
                                                                      are varied fleur de lis, but now so worn that their real
                                                                      outline cannot be traced.
                                                                       Now the bases are in their while system, far in advance
                                                                      of Lyons, and yet, as noted at p 171 the traceries of
                                                                      the front of Bourges are far behind Lyons, while its
                                                                      sculpture appears more recent  Is then ths facade of Bourge
                                                                      an example of an earlier manner taken up and richly develop
                                                                      ed by later architects?

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