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connected with the abacus, show a singular defect of architectural and artistic aptitude on the part of the native English designers who were by this time, apparently, gaining ascendency.
FIG. 144.
Of still different character are the nearly contemporaneous capitals of the transept and eastern end of the nave of Wells Cathedral. Though wrought by a local school, whose influence did not, I believe, extend beyond Glastonbury, yet these
