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[St M.66L]                                                            [St M.66]							66
                                                                      
4th  Porch.  the vault arch great central                             [4th Porch]
	on clock side                                                        
	Right side of it - Upper small shafts - -                            			And their opposites.
                                                                      
                                                                      	a -	3  “  6	-	3  “  5
Their opposites                                                       are	b -	2  “  11 -	2  “  9 ½		Round
                                                                      	c -	3  “  1 -	2  “ 11			halfway up.
e	3  “  5			O	   O	   O                                               	d -	3  “  0 ½	3  “  3			and an inch
b	3  “  9 ½		g	   f	   e                                              	e -	3  “  2		3  “  1			more at their
c	2  “  11					d O                                                    	f -	2  “  10		3  “  0			bases
                                                                      	g -	2  “  7 ½	2  “  6 ½
d	3  “  3					c O                                                     
                                                                      	The gs are of course the
e	3  “  1					b O                                                     	bracing shafts of arch
                                                                      	The small bs are curious
f	3  “  0					a O                                                     	in their marked effect on the eye.
                                                                      
[diagram]                                                             On the sea side -
                                                                      On.	a has a square base. but no angle leaves
		[diagram] a  y   y3  m                                              	b  -    -    -    -            with ridges   -
		a little too long should be                                         	c. has a round basic plinth
								[diagram]                                                     	d and e are as b.
								Vide next                                                     	f as c.
								    Page.                                                     	g as b.
                                                                      		But on opposite side all
						+ This completes. very flat                                     	have square bases with leaves
						dentil when the archivolt                                       
						joins the square ending                                             The stone work of this niche - interlaced
						it, dies in the quaint                                              balls with interstices filled with mosaic
						old fashioned way into                                          is very curious in its use of small circular
						the half dentil  y2                                                 white points and of graduated greens
						leaving plinth y coincides                                         & blues. points of pale in the middle
						with y3.                                                           of crosses of deep blue & green
                                                                      .
                                                                        The section of its archivolt opposite . only observe
                                                                        the portion x  y , follows the square a  and when
                                                                      the arch leaves the square. it has an  n. only
                                                                         the flat space below dentil being occupied
                                                                          by wreathed ornament. & the border
                                                                      above soffit the same leaf wreath as at
                                                                         p.27. Then. Vid opposite +

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