of chancel, south chancel aisle, clere-storied nave, north and south aisle, south and west porches, engaged tower with broached spire at the west end of the north aisle, revestry on north of chancel, and octagonal chapter house or committee-room east of revestry, disengaged on all but the west face. The accommodation is for 700 worshippers; the style Middle-pointed early in character, with geometrical tracery of somewhat novel design. Externally, the broken outline and varied masses of the building present a most picturesque, and, at the same time, truly ecclesiastical appearance. On entering the church, the solemn and religious effect caused by the entire absence of galleries (with the exception of the small western organ gallery), and by the lofty and high-pitched roofs, is exceedingly striking. Polychromic decoration is partially employed at present; and will be carried throughout the building when the walls are in a fit state. Sculpture has also been introduced with the best taste, in bas-reliefs of Thorwaldsen, and in elaborate carving. Altogether this church approximates very closely to the most beautiful models of the Pointed style; and, opposed as it is to the common notions of the utilitarian character of the body by whom it has been erected, is a vindication of the universality and permanence of the ancient architectural manifestations of beauty and holiness.

3. BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH EDUCATION, SCIENCE, &c. THE Mechanics' Institute at Devonport is not, indeed, an entirely new structure, but an enlargement of one that was erected about six years before; nevertheless, as now extended and altered by Mr. Alfred Norman, a young architect of that place, it is essentially a new work. The front towards Duke-street shows a ground-floor crowned by a complete Doric entablature; above which are two series of windows, the lower ones being the smallest-although they can hardly be described as mezzanine ones-they being intended to give light beneath the galleries of the Lecture Hall; and the elevation is terminated by a projecting bracketed cornice and eaves-roof. The composition has three windows in its width, the middle one of which on each floor consists of three openings. The divisions of the one on the ground-floor are formed by two Doric columns immediately beneath the general entablature, whose shafts are rusticated in correspondence with the quoins which form the dressings of the lateral openings, and of the two other windows, also of the angles of the front. In the upper part, the windows in one tier may be said to be coupled with those in the other, the cornices and consoles of the smaller or mezzanine ones serving to support the balustrades or balconies belonging to those which are immediately over them. Here, too, the middle window in each tier consists of three openings, the upper one being an arched Venetian window, with whose central opening the other window on either side corresponds, it having pilasters, a richly moulded arch-head, and ornamented keystone. In the interior there is upon the ground-floor, towards the street, a library 60 feet long and 15 high, or rather three rooms connected with each other by two large open arches. Of these divisions only the two end ones are for books, the middle one being intended for a

museum. The remainder of this floor is occupied by a class-room, and some dwelling-rooms. The whole of the upper floor in this new portion of the building is occupied by the great Lecture Hall, whose dimensions are 61 by 46, and 30 high, and which, on each of its longer sides, is lighted by six windows-viz., three smaller ones beneath the galleries, and as many above. There is an enriched frieze, cornice, and cove, and the ceiling is divided into compartments, by carved beams. One large central and two smaller ventilators serve not only to carry off foul air, but also to decorate the apartment, they being made ornamental objects. Although all the dressings of the front are of Portland stone, and the rest of limestone rubble masonry, faced with Portland cement, the total outlay will not exceed £2,500.

The new buildings for the College at Brighton, designed by Mr. G. G. Scott, of which the first stone was laid June 22nd, 1848, are partly erected. They are situated on the east cliff, facing the sea, and the south front will ultimately form three sides of an open quadrangle, partly surrounded by a cloister as an ambulatory for the scholars. At present only the central building is finished, containing the hall and staircase below, and library above, with classrooms and other apartments on each side of them on both floors. The upper floor of the west wing will be entirely occupied by the great school-room, marked externally by a large pointed window of four lights, beneath the southern gable of that division of the structure, which runs north and south, whereas in the other wing the roof of the chapel will extend transversely to the one just mentioned, and parallel to the general line of front, consequently its gables will face east and west, in conformity with the disposition usually observed for church architecture. The Principal's residence (who is at present the Rev. Arthur Macleane) will also form a part of the east wing. The style is, in general—that is, as regards the principal features that of the 14th century; and the materials are flint and Caen stone.

The building, by Mr. E. Walters, for the Cavendish-street Schools, Manchester, may be considered an architectural acquisition to that town. The front, which extends 127 feet in length, and is in what may be called the Collegiate style, shows two floors, in the lower one of which is the entrance door, with four square-headed mullioned and transomed windows on each side of it, consequently nine windows above, of which the extreme ones are embattled oriels, with a smaller window and gable over them. Internally, the upper floor is occupied by a hall or school-room, 80 by 40 feet, with a library at one end and a lecture-room at the other, separated by a glazed screen, so as to admit an uninterrupted view in that direction from end to end.

At Oxford-where the talked-of Choristers' School seems to have been adjourned sine die-a small building, from the designs of Messrs. J. C. Buckler and Son, and to be called Magdalen College School, was commenced last September. And we may here mention that report announces the intention of founding and erecting another public Museum, in addition to the Taylor Institute. Pem

broke College in that university has acquired architectural importance by the erection of a new Hall on the western side of the new court; the architect of which is Mr. J. Haywood, of Exeter. The hall itself is 74 by 27 feet, and 42 high from the floor to the ridge of its timber roof, the main ribs of which last spring from stone corbels. It is lighted on each side by four four-light transomed windows, and by a spacious bay or oriel on the dais at its south end. The north end is divided off below from the rest of the apartment by an oak screen, behind which is the ante-hall or lobby, entered through a porch in the tower at its east end, and the ascent to which is by a flight of steps placed in the re-entering angle formed by the tower's projecting from the body of the plan. The north side of the court consists of a range of entirely new buildings (160 feet long), containing the common-room, lecture-rooms, lodgings for fellows, &c. The other buildings are not new ones, but have been improved in their appearance.

4. BUILDINGS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES.

Little visible progress has been made with the works at the Palace at Westminster; and what has transpired is now likely to cause their retardment, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury having learnt, "with considerable surprise," that the probable expense of completing the works is estimated at upwards of two millions. It is objected by some that now the river front is finished, its elaboration, which seems to have been calculated for a very different site, where it could have been closely inspected, does not at all show itself, but very far less effectively than much plainer, yet also much bolder features and details would have done. It would, therefore, have been more judicious to have reserved such minute elaboration for the west and accessible side of the pile. At last, however, the commissioners for that building promise, that the "strictest economy" shall be observed; and such portions as are not absolutely necessary be postponed, which, we fear, looks very much like a stoppage to the noble Victoria Tower. The House of Commons is nearly completed; and the frescoes which have been decided on are in course of execution.

In a new building at Aylesbury for the "Judges' Lodgings," Mr. E. B. Lamb has shown that it is possible to secure a more than ordinary degree of artistic character and effect with the strictest regard to economy, and without any of the usual appliances in the way of decoration, on which alone architects are too apt to rely. The building stands southwards of, and at the rear of, the Town Hall, in the market-place, and is approached through a very handsome and bold arch, with open metal gates, which conducts through a larger arch of peculiar character to the north or entrance front of the Lodgings." The entrance itself is a happy and artist-like conception-perfectly simple, yet strikingly picturesque. Space has been so well economized and turned to account, that the building appears within much larger than the exterior promises, and also presents many exceedingly striking points. Serviceableness and accommodation have been completely provided for.

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The Post Office at Devonport, which has just been erected by

Mr. G. Wightwick of Plymouth, an architect known as a writer on various topics connected with his profession, exhibits some skilful contrivance as well as novelty of design. The building stauds at the junction of two streets, having Fore-street on its north and Chapel-street on its east side; but may be said to present three distinct elevations combined together into a whole, as viewed diagonally. Instead of the corner being merely rounded off, it is made to form the centre as it were of the general composition, that northeast elevation being made somewhat wider than the others, and showing a semicircular portico or porch, whose columns and entablature are after the Tivoli example of the Corinthian order. This portico forms internally a complete rotunda with ten intercolumns, five of which are open towards the street, and of the others, the middle one is occupied by a niche, containing a clock placed upon an ornamental pedestal, and the remaining ones by doors. Besides the novelty of its plan (and we know of no other instance of a semicircular portico being made a complete circle within), much positive advantage and obvious convenience are here obtained by it, namely, double the space and shelter, and we may add, effect also, that there would have been had there been merely the external semicircle. As regards place and purpose, Mr. Wightwick has here improved upon what he seems to have had in view at the time, namely, that" master-bit" of Soane's, the north-west corner of the Bank of England; and had the dimensions been doubled, so that he could have made his portico twice its present diameter, and its order twice as high as it now is, to serve as that of the entire elevation, with columns thirty feet, instead of only fifteen high, a superlatively fine and striking effect would have been produced. It is obvious that it was utterly impossible to carry up the portico higher than the ground-floor; for unless the whole plan had been upon twice its present scale, that would have been practicable without reducing the portico to a mere upright strip, a curved distyle in antis, with two very narrow side intercolumns. There are two floors above the ground-floor and portico, the upper one of which is of mezzanine proportions. In the curved part of the general elevation, which is over the portico, there are three windows, or what may be so called, although the centre one on both floors is, in fact, a blank filled in with sculpture, that below with various ornaments and symbols allusive to commercial intercourse, and the upper and smaller one with the royal arms. The north and east elevations are precisely similar to each other, and show a single triple window on each floor; and that belonging to the first or middle floor has its central opening flanked by Corinthian columns, and crowned by an angular pediment. The whole is finished by a rich and tastefully designed cornice. The columns, cornices, and all the other architectural members and dressings, are of Caen stone, and the walls of lime stone and brick covered with Portland cement. Notwithstanding the decoration bestowed upon it, the whole structure has been executed for the remarkably small sum of 1,6501. exclusively of the fittings up of the office and the architect's commission,

The Exchange at Manchester, although not entirely new, is so greatly extended and otherwise altered as to be no longer what it was. It was originally built about forty years ago by Harrison of Chester, who was of some repute as a classical architect. His feel ing for the Greek Doric, the most intractable of all styles, consisted in this building of sticking up "engaged" columns of that order against what was in itself of most un-Doric physiognomy. That order has still been retained for the exterior, by the present architect (Mr. Alexander Mills), who has introduced it in one front for a pedimented octastyle portico (whose columns are 28 feet high). Yet if it there shows sufficiently well, being attended with some of the relief essentially requisite for it, it is quite out of place in the lateral elevations (where it exhibits itself only in the shape of antæ), they being in themselves quite of Italian character, and presenting a single range of large arcades filled in with triple windows. Greatly better is the interior, which, although sparingly decorated, is more than usually scenic and picturesque in its arrangement and ensemble. It is not very easy to describe it in words alone, therefore we can only pretend to give some idea of its general design by saying, that its plan is divided longitudinally into three compartments, each of which opens into the side divisions or aisles of the plan, by a distyle in antis, with columns after the Erechtheum Ionic example. Between each of these compartments, which are covered by pendentive lantern domes of tasteful design, so as to leave a large lunette or semicircular space over each of the side openings, is a pier decorated with antæ, between which is a smaller arched opening, whose arch is corbelled upon consoles, and which forms an open niche for the reception of a statue, whose pedestal is formed by a slightly projecting break in a dado included within the arch; a happily applied idea if borrowed, an enviable one if original.

The new Bank at Northampton, although confined as to frontage (38 feet), and neither particularly remarkable or pretending as re gards design, is a more than ordinarily good specimen of what may be called street architecture. Its elevation presents an unusually lofty, rusticated ground-floor, with a Venetian window, set in an arcade, and an arched door, similarly enclosed within a larger arch, on each side of it. The first floor has three pedimented windows with columns; the two upper floors merely architraved windows; and the whole is crowned by a rich entablature, and a roof with Italian tiles, and chimneys treated architecturally. The design might, no doubt, be improved by a few slight corrections and artistic touches; still it is quite equal, if not more than equal, to architectural productions of the same class in the metropolis. The same may be said, and far more strongly, of Sir Benjamin Heywood's Bank in St. Ann'ssquare, Manchester, by Mr. J. E. Gregan; for it makes, and successfully, far more pretension to architectural design and finish than any of our private banking-houses do here in London. The design is of exceedingly pleasing character, less remarkable as a composition than for elegance of treatment, for a happy union of simplicity and richness, and for careful attention to detail throughout.

The new Branch Bank of England at Liverpool is from the