. Archaeologia cantiana. the value of this work 1 And would it not be farbetter to limit our nineteenth-centuiy carvers of foliageto rather less work in amount, and considerably morein merit, than that which they are wont to give us 1 Thesculpture at Stone was no contract work: no exhibitionof the gieatest skill in covering the largest possiblenumber of stones with the greatest possible quantity ofcarving : and it was executed with a delicacy of hand, afineness of eye, a nervous sensibility so soft, that no per-functory imitation can ever be in the least degree likelyto rival its beauty. The s
. Archaeologia cantiana. the value of this work 1 And would it not be farbetter to limit our nineteenth-centuiy carvers of foliageto rather less work in amount, and considerably morein merit, than that which they are wont to give us 1 Thesculpture at Stone was no contract work: no exhibitionof the gieatest skill in covering the largest possiblenumber of stones with the greatest possible quantity ofcarving : and it was executed with a delicacy of hand, afineness of eye, a nervous sensibility so soft, that no per-functory imitation can ever be in the least degree likelyto rival its beauty. The small bosses of foliage whichadorn the smaller spandrils in this arcade are very wellcarved. I give engravings of three of them, and it is CHUKCH OF ST. MARY, STONE. 123 worthy of remark that the same design is repeatedseveral times. No 1 is repeated four times, No. 2 sixtimes, and No. 3 seven times; besides which the samedesign is used, simply reversed. It looks as though amodel had been cut, and then copies made of The walls of the chancel are only 2 ft. 3 J in. thick,but the great size of the buttresses amply compensatedfor this, and preserved them from suffering at all by thethrust of the groining. Before the restoration the stateof the chancel was a sad falling off from its old arcade at the base of the walls was perfect allround. The lower part of the groining-sliafts remained,as also did the whole of a cluster of shafts on each 124 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE side between the short western bay akeady mentionedand the next. The groining was all destroyed, butmarks of it remained against the wall, and it was easytherefore to obtain its exact section. The treatment ofthe western bay was peculiar. It was clearly nevercovered, as the rest of the chancel was, with a quadri-partite vault. The mark of a vault remained againstthe wall above the chancel arch, whilst the side wallsshowed that a barrel vault had sprung from them. Thecluster of three shafts between this bay and
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