was a campanile 72 feet high, with a lantern finial of 20 feet, near the south-east end of the building. But a day or two after completion the tower fell, crushing in its fall a portion of the roof and the great chancel arch. A formal inquiry was of course instituted, but it resulted, as is usual in such cases, in the discovery that no one was to blame. There have been too many of these mishaps lately for the credit of our architects and builders. The Tyndale Memorial must now be added to the list of such disasters, having succumbed before reaching half its intended height.

St. Philip's, Kennington-road, Lambeth, is a First Pointed church. It is of Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings; has a tall spire at the south end, and some good carving. It has 1,000 sittings, and cost, with the parsonage, about 6,000%. Mr. H. Coe was the architect. At Battersea, a new district church, St. John's, has been erected from the designs of Mr. E. C. Robins. It is First Pointed in style; faced with red, black, and grey bricks; has north and south aisles, semioctagonal chancel, and a bell-turret; has 730 sittings, of which 500 are free; and cost 3,7007. At Wimbledon, Mr. Johnson has erected a district church, Second Pointed in style; of hammered rag, with Bath stone dressings. It is rather unusually picturesque and effective, though a little too irregular in outline. At Aldborough Hatch, Barking Side, on the margin of Epping Forest, a pretty little church has been built, partly at the cost of the Government, for the accommodation of the occupants of the reclaimed forest lands. It has 220 sittings. The architect was Mr. Ashpitel.

Several new churches are in course of erection in London, and some of them promise to be of interest in various ways. St. Jude's, Gray's Inn-road, by Mr. J. Peacock, is of brick, with a lofty tower, and a picturesque but foreign-looking western façade. It has a nave and aisles, a deep chancel; 900 sittings, and will cost 6,000l. St. Gabriel's, Pimlico, is to be erected from the designs of Mr. Cundy, at a cost of about 12,0007., which will, it is said, be defrayed by the Marquis of Westminster and Mr. G. Cubitt, M.P. A church of a highly decorative character is erecting for the district of St. Michael, Shoreditch, from the designs of Mr. Brooks.

The Government have completed during the year two or three military churches of a higher architectural character than such buildings usually possess. Chief of these is the New Garrison Church, Woolwich, designed by Messrs. T. H. and Digby Wyatt, and which lays distinct claim to be " an adaptation of Lombardic architecture to the materials and processes in use in the 19th century." It is of red brick, with stone dressings, and has some character externally. But the chief effect is in the interior. The area is spacious, and the vision unimpeded, save by the light iron columns which carry the clerestory arches. A gallery is carried round three of the sides. There is a good deal of coloured decoration, which culminates in the apsidal chancel. Altogether the effect is very striking, but hardly ecclesiastical. The building has cost about 16,000l. Ten windows of painted glass have already been inserted. All Saints, Aldershott, is Second Pointed in style, and altogether more in accordance with the usual ecclesiastical type. It is a large building, being 143 feet by 68

and consists of nave and aisles, chancel, and south transept, and has a tower and spire 121 feet high. The exterior is of red brick, with Bath stone dressings. The pillars which divide the aisles from the nave are of Portland stone, and there is a good deal of quiet decoration about the chancel. It has 1,200 sittings, and has cost about 14,000l. The architect was Mr. P. C. Hardwick. A Mission Church has also been erected at the camp.

In the provinces several churches have been built which deserve a fuller notice than we can possibly afford them. Buckland St. Mary is one of the most magnificent modern churches in Somersetshire. It has been nearly ten years building, and is at once solid in structure, rich in decorative work, and carefully finished in every part. It is Second Pointed in style, and consists of a nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, a south porch, and a massive western tower. The roof is of oak. Statues of Christ and his Apostles occupy niches in the gable and over the clerestory arches. Coloured marbles are freely employed. The chancel is decorated in polychromy, and separated from the nave by an elaborate stone screen. The principal windows are of painted glass. The church has cost about 20,000l., nearly the whole of which has been defrayed by the rector, the Rev. Prebendary Lance. The architect was Mr. Ferrey.

Another important addition to the ecclesiastical architecture of Somerset is the church of St. John the Evangelist, Taunton, like that just mentioned erected at the sole expense of a clergyman, the Rev. F. J. Smith. It is a substantial stone building, Second Pointed in style; is 110 feet long and 56 wide; consists of a nave and aisles, chancel with chapels, and a tower and spire about 150 feet high. There is much excellent carving both externally and in the interior; coloured marbles are freely employed for shafts and surface ornament; the chancel is elaborately decorated in polychromy, and several of the windows are of painted glass. It has 650 sittings, and cost about 10,000l. The architect was Mr. G. G. Scott, R.A.

At Nocton, Lincolnshire, Mr. Scott has erected a handsome church at the cost of the Countess of Ripon, as a memorial of her husband, the late Earl of Ripon. It is in Mr. Scott's favourite style, the Second Pointed modified by French colouring; is built of local stone, with dressings of Ancaster stone, and is finished throughout with great care. There is a mortuary chapel in which an altar tomb of Devonshire marble, designed by Mr. Scott, bears a recumbent statue of the Earl of Ripon executed by Mr. Noble. The church has cost about 6,000l., but the spire is left to be erected at a future time.

Mr. Scott has also finished the chapel at Wellington College. Like his chapel at Exeter College, Oxford (engraved in Companion to Almanac for 1861, p. 234), it bears a marked resemblance to the Ste. Chapelle, Paris. The chapel stands apart from the college, but is connected with it by a cloister. It is a very elegant building of its kind, though strictly imitative, and imitated from a different and much earlier period than that of the college to which it has been added. Mr. Scott is busily carrying forward another of these chapels, that of St. John's College, Cambridge. Though resembling his Exeter College chapel, it will be much larger, and not less splendid.

In connection with it, Mr. Scott is enlarging the Hall, erecting a new Master's Lodge, and making other important alterations at St. John's.

Of the remainder of the churches we have to mention we can give merely a list-compiled, let us remark in passing, chiefly from the fuller descriptions published in the 'Builder,' the Building News,' the 'Illustrated News,' and the excellent little serial called the 'Church Builder,' with occasional assistance from the daily and local journals and private information. We only criticise such as we have visited, or examined in the architects' drawings or photographs. As in previous years, we arrange them for convenience under First Pointed (or Early English) and Second Pointed (or Decorated) Gothic. It will, however, be understood, that though thus designated many of them are, chiefly from having foreign features, very unlike the old English families bearing those names. For many, indeed, the only proper term would be Conventional Gothic. Where not otherwise stated they may be supposed to consist of a nave, with north and south aisles, a chancel, a vestry, &c.

We may commence our notice of churches in the First Pointed style with the mention of three completed, and two in progress, in Tynemouth and its neighbourhood, through the munificence of the Duke of Northumberland. At Tynemouth three district parishes have been formed, endowed each with an income of 2001. a year and a good parsonage, and in one a church completed. The cost will be about 60,000l., of which the Duke of Northumberland contributes 40,000l., and the Church Commissioners add 20,000l. At Acklington and South Charlton, which have been similarly endowed, the churches have been consecrated. They are all small, but substantial fabrics, designed by Mr. Salvin, who is directing for the Duke the extensive alterations at Alnwick. At Hunstanton, Lincolnshire, the Rev. D. Capper has not only built a new church of a larger size and more ornate character than the old, but rebuilt the parsonage and several cottages in a corresponding style. The cost was about 14,000l.; the architect Mr. Teulon. Other First Pointed churches built within the last year are the following:-St. Peter's, Froxfield, Hampshire, erected some distance from the ancient parish church, which had become ruinous. The new church, which is of flint, with Coombe Down stone dressings, has some of the Norman work of the old church incorporated in it. It consists of a nave, with a north aisle and chancel; has 350 sittings, all free, and cost 2,3007.; architect, Mr. E. H. Martineau. St. Barnabas, Penboyr, Cardigan, 250 sittings; erected at the cost of the Earl of Cawdor; architect, Mr. D. Brandon. St. Peter's, Ayot St. Peter's, Herts; on the site of the old church; of red brick, inside and out, with stone weatherings; nave, 32 feet long; apsidal chancel, 22 feet 6 inches, with three windows of painted glass; open timber roof; tower over the vestry, at north side of chancel, 72 feet high; architect, Mr. T. C. Pearson. St. Luke's, Nottingham; of Bulwell stone, with Derbyshire stone dressings; 900 sittings, half of which are free; cost, 4,500l.; architect, Mr. R. Julland, of Nottingham. St. George, Wellington; walls of rubble-work, with dressings of Grinsell stone; 800 sittings; cost,

5,000l.; spire, 150 feet high, to be added when sufficient funds; architect, Mr. G. E. Street. Sutton Mandeville; 63 feet by 34; 150 sittings; cost, 600l., the tower of the old church being preserved intact, and many of the old materials worked up in the new building; architect, Mr. T. H. Wyatt. St. Mary Magdalene, Woodborough, Somersetshire; nave, north aisle, and chancel; 245 sittings, of which 215 are free; architect, Mr. T. H. Wyatt. St. Andrew, Thringstone, Leicestershire; nave, with shallow transepts, and apsidal chancel; of forest stone in random courses, with sandstone dressings high-pitched roof, with bell-cote at intersection; 259 sittings, of which 180 are free; cost, under 1,000l.; architect, Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn. All Saints, South Cerney, near Cirencester; parish church wholly rebuilt; architect, Mr. St. Aubyn. District church, Widford, near Ware; architect, Mr. St. Aubyn. Monkton, near Honiton 145 sittings; cost, 6007.; architect, Mr. J. Hayward. Brightwalton, near Wantage, Berks; entirely of stone; nave, chancel, and north aisle, with baptistery under the south-western tower, which is surmounted with a spire; reredos of alabaster, with representation of the Saviour giving the benediction, surrounded by angels bearing censers; architect, Mr. G. E. Street. Dalesford, Worcestershire; cruciform, with heavy square tower at intersection; general character First Pointed, but greatly modified by foreign details; walls of ashlar, varied with stone of other tints; shafts on outside of terra-cotta, inside of variously-coloured marbles; fittings of oak; extreme length, 64 feet; architect, Mr. J. L. Pearson. St. Michael's, Louth, Lincolnshire; style, Italianized; western Galilee porch of two bays, and bell-turret; apsidal chancel; exterior of hammer-dressed stone; inner walls of red brick, with bands of black and yellow bricks and tiles; shafts of red Mansfield stone; very elaborate reredos; architect, Mr. J. Fowler, of Louth. St. Catherine, Edge Hill, Liverpool; of red brick, with facings of Stourton stone; 900 sittings; cost, 3,000l.; architect, Mr. J. D. Gee. St. Margaret's, Wispington, Lincolnshire; pulpit of Caen stone with marble shafts, and carvings in panels of Nathan and David, the Nativity, and the Prodigal Son, designed and carved by the Rev. C. Terrot, the vicar, who has also executed a bas-relief, on the west wall, of St. Margaret, the patron saint; reredos of Minton's tiles; architect, Mr. J. B. Atkinson. Llyswen, Brecknockshire; tower at west end; spire to be added when funds are obtained; cost, 9501.; architect, Mr. C. Buckeridge. Nantddu, a neat little church, by the same architect, erected at a cost of 4007. St. Andrew, Shepherdswell, Dover; Mr. B. Ferrey, architect. St. Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough; transitional; of Whitby stone; 136 feet by 64; square tower, with gable roof, 100 feet high at north-west angle; architect, Mr. G. Bodley. Moreton, Cheshire; of a local white stone; the spire, 100 feet high, contains a peal of bells; pulpit, reading-desk, and font, of carved Caen stone, with columns of serpentine; 320 sittings; cost, 1,600l., defrayed by Mr. W. Inman, of Liverpool; architects, Messrs. Cunningham and Audsley, of Liverpool. St. Cuthbert's, Durham; some French forms and details; nave and south aisle, with apsidal chancel; tower at north-west angle, with lofty gable roof, and angle-stair

turret capped with brooch spire; in west gable of church a circular window of peculiar character; roof of extravagant pitch: altogether the church, though very carefully finished, is rather eccentric than beautiful; the sittings are all free; cost, about 3,000l.; architect, Mr. Robson, of Durham. Clapton, Lincolnshire; partly built with the materials of the old church, which stood about 500 hundred yards nearer the sea. The new church consists of nave, with north aisle, chancel, and tower at west end, with stair-turret; most of the windows have been filled with stained glass; 180 sittings; cost defrayed by the rector and the lord of the manor; architect, Mr. Armstrong. St. Michael, Bore's Isle, Tenterden, Kent; nave with south aisle; tower at south-east angle; several presentation windows of painted glass; 276 sittings; architect, Mr. G. M. Hills. Little Amwell, near Hertford; a picturesque, but peculiar little church, of red brick, having an extremely high-pitched roof, a very large chancel, lighted by seven lancet windows, and a bell-cote over the chancel arch; in the interior, shafts of Devonshire marbles and red Mansfield stone, with Bath stone bases and capitals, and variegated bricks are employed; cost, about 1,4007.; architect, Mr. E. Christian. St. Bartholomew's, Cross-in-Hand, near Waldron, Sussex; entirely of local stone; bell-turret, with octagonal shingled spire at west end; 200 sittings; built at the cost of Mr. Boucher, of Heatherden House; architect, Mr. P. St. Aubyn. St. Margaret's, Aberdare; nave, south aisle, and apsidal chancel; 500 sittings, of which 440 are free; architects, Messrs. Prichard and Seddon.

Churches in the Second Pointed or Decorated style have been erected at the following among other places :-St. Andrew's, Romford, of Kentish rag and Bath stone; 550 sittings, of which 300 are free; cost, 4,5007.; architect, Mr. J. Johnson. Walsoken, Norfolk ; of white brick, with red brick bands, and Ancaster stone dressings; 250 sittings; architect, Mr. W. Adams, of Wisbeach. All Saints, Kingstanley, Stroud; of grey forest stone; windows all of painted glass; cost, about 2,000l.; architect, Mr. G. F. Bodley. St. Margaret's, Bramley, Leeds; 1,000 sittings; cost, 4,500l.; architects, Messrs. Perkin and Backhouse. Emmanuel Church, near the goods station of the Great Western Railway, Bristol; a plain Early Decorated structure, in a poor neighbourhood; 665 sittings, of which 440 are free; cost, 3,190.; architects, Messrs. Pope and Bindon. St. James the Apostle, Clifton; intended as a chapel-of-ease to the parish church, and a memorial of the completion of the fiftieth year of the incumbency of the Rev. J. Hensman: it is built of Hanham stone, with freestone dressings, and red sandstone in the relieving arches over the windows; the shafts of the chancel arches are of Purbeck marble, and others are of Devonshire marble; 400 sittings; cost, about 3,500l.; architects, Messrs. Pope and Bindon. Whittington, Derbyshire; walls faced with Wingerworth stone, with white stone dressings; tower at south-west angle, surmounted with a stone spire, about 100 feet high; high-pitched open timber roof, supported on stone corbels; 600 sittings, all free; cost, 2,5007.; architects, Messrs. Giles and Brookhouse, of Derby. St. Mary, South Shields; nave, 84 feet by 25, with chancel, 18 feet 6 inches by

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