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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
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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.
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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