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Rh England. The lower member of the base is commonly round in plan, and of the superposed courses of which the

FIG. 150. base is made up, one or more are usually moulded, as at A, Fig. 150 from the aisle of the choir of Lincoln, and B, in the same figure, from the choir of the Temple Church in London.

The square plinth being omitted, there was, of course, no place for the angle spur, and the base in the early pointed architecture of England lacks, in consequence, that perfect expression of firm foothold, which is so marked in the bases of the French Gothic. In a few instances, however, where square plinths occur, as in the north porch of Wells, the angle