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chevrons meet. On each of the keystones of the three orders is sculptured 

 a human head in relief, surmounted by a square block like an abacus. 

 The insertion of the doorway into the wall has been very clumsily effected ; 

 the change of masonry is so obvious as to be an eyesore (see the photograph, 

 Plate XI, fig. 1 ; for this photograph I am indebted to Mr. Crawford). A bow- 

 tell moulding runs up the angles of the jambs in each of the orders, termi- 



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nating upwards in a small human head. There is a similar moulding 

 running up the inner angles, terminating upwards in a snake's head recurved 

 on itself (see the drawing, Plate X, which also shows the very peculiar 

 terminal of the moulding behind the bowtell of the inner order). As in the 

 doorway of St. Brigid's, many plain modern voussoirs have had to bo 

 inserted to supply the place of lost stones. 



