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Rh capitals cannot be overlooked in any just survey of the art at this time in England. Their characteristics, of which Fig. 145 exhibits an illustration, differ widely from anything at Lincoln or elsewhere with the exception of Glastonbury itself. Much in them recalls French work, though they are very different from the French capitals of Lincoln. The polygonal abacus, supporting angle crockets, and certain

FIG. 145.

peculiarities of detail and execution, are conspicuously French; while the excessive projection of the crockets is an English characteristic.

A very common type of capital in England in the thirteenth century is that which is simply moulded without any foliate sculpture, as at Westminster Abbey, Salisbury, Beverley, Southwell, and many other churches. It is rarely a capital of good profile, and there is often no well-marked division into bell and abacus. It consists largely of a series ill related of mouldings of various profiles and dimensions, which look as if they might have been turned out on