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ST MARKS ATRIUM DOOR.
but as mikght have been expected, both the horizontal
shoulders gave way under the weight of wall: and the
rest, seen in No 116, begins where the leaf upper moulding
is broken away behind the angels head; its course is then
concealed by the tracery but the tracery itself is of
course broken in its weakest part, behind the angels
shortest wing, and so down under its hand coming out in a
flaky fracture above the stilt on the other side the same
fractures has taken place in the same points, but more
destructively - crashing the ornaments to pieces, they
have been stuck in again shapelessly, mi[x]xed with bits
of the leaf plinth and the new portion of leaf moulding
has been fitted in below the angel. The entire mosaic
of the tympanum has, I suppose been added for support;
with the rose and leaf architeave, and the whole further
strengthened by a thick iron bar. The smaller band of
jointed masonry round the arch is in a dark li[k]lac
brown spotted marble, facing merely, like the rest of
the wall. The leaf traceries which form the background
to the figures are deep,y undercut, attached only here
and there to the back in the angle of the arch under the
angels longer wing, the left hand angels left wing is
a recess cut deep down behind the roll, enough to
put one’s hand into, of which I cannot conceive the
use. Fig 2 No 116 shows the mode in which the leaf
roll stops on the flat dark stone of the wall, and is
changed above into
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