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                                                                      	Finally, on Nos 152 159 is given  the cross bar of the
                                                                      tracery of the lateral windows;  on the side of the passage
                                                                      round the church:  The heads of these windows are the
                                                                      same as those of the lower story of apse, as far as I could
                                                                      see - at least they are in general plan;  but the style of
                                                                      the management is evidently immensely late;  note on No
                                                                      152 the shallow rolls now become pure semicircles, the
                                                                      elaborate pendant finial fig 2 square instead of octagon,
                                                                      its plan turned up above its profile with tracery falling
                                                                      on it - note the same principle however k[j]ept of half
                                                                      separating the rolls - characteristic of early work?
                                                                      The lions heads are less spirited by far though still good
                                                                      and bristly - but beginning to melt down.  The capitals
                                                                      have same sections - but are more ela[b]borate and cu[a]rly
                                                                      in lobes.  They are well ribbed.
                                                                      The jamb section fig 3 is highly interesting;  the turn
                                                                      of the bottom of the window is shown below;  it is worked
                                                                      all in brick below the jamb;  and some section in s tone
                                                                      on the archivolt;  having the banded plinth between, fig 4
                                                                      and fig 5, is the length of a dentil;  each dentil a double
                                                                      square and with two dogt; to it a very perfectly organized
                                                                      system.

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