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[St M.19L]                                                            [St M.19]							19
                                                                      
[landscape orientation]                                               [landscape orientation]
			d                                                                  
[diagram]  (3)  a  b  c  ^  innermost                                 now putting this square abaci to the shafts on last page.
		line of upper cornice                                               the narrow table plinth + above them is th as below (1)
		x x. great pier                                                     corresponding in all but the dotted line with the lower plinth
		wall                                                                and of course [leaving?] a great frieze
		y y y. cornice of                                                   overhanging at the angles. while
		wall. helping                                                       it falls within.
		to support the plinth                                               under the soffit
                                                                      The dotted line is
Observe below the uncoloured part of the flat                         lower plinth
	      on its edge                                                    
upper plinth  has ^ the double dentil which joins the abacus          [diagram] (1)   (2)	From the side
of the Carta A. B.  & C. shafts. But at the junction                  			of the capital abacus
j. the coloured part is the flower plinth which                       			to the edge of the
thenceforward traverses the church facade.                            			cornice at a. fig 1. there
 - that is to say having on its edge the pattern ( as I think) of     			is about 10 inches
        here                                                          			but this fig 1. should
p 21.    which is the ornament of the great central plinth            			be as above. fig 3
but I must have referred to this somewhere.                           			in the abacil ie abaci
                                                                      			in contact, only fig 1
                                                                      			represents the shafts
                                                                      			and abaci in position
                                                                      			above with each other
                                                                      			and meeting the edge of
                                                                      			the plinth behind.
                                                                      				but fig 1
                                                                      				is right in
                                                                      				relations
                                                                      				of upper &
                                                                      				lower plinths
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      + called
                                                                      tall plinth
                                                                      above.
                                                                      
                                                                      Then the architrave volt walls are laid on this narrow
                                                                      slab + so (2) The bearing parts of the pillars are truly marked
                                                                      The thin slab looks like a crust of ice
                                                                      The span W. W . is the great wall of the main story

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