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Mr. PETEIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



affords of an acquaintance with this form in Ireland, and which is the more 

 curious inasmuch as no example of its architectural use occurs in this country. 

 Similar instances of its use, as an ornament on capitals, occur in England, as in 

 Appleton church, Berks, circa 1190. 



The capitals which follow are those of the single columns in the same door- 

 way, and are but little varied in their designs. 



The next two are more remarkable, particularly the second, which in its sub- 

 division into small shafts, has an approximation to the clustered column of the 

 pointed style. 



The capitals of the smaller north doorway, or that leading into the northern 

 tower, are ornamented, like those of the larger doorway, chiefly with varieties 

 of the Norman truncated and inverted semicones, with escallopped edges ; but 



