The pulpit also is of oak, with carved open panels; the pavement of encaustic tiles forming a rich pattern and border, and so disposed that the pattern is diversified by larger compartments in the centre and angles. The windows, however, are not yet glazed; they will be filled with stained glass of a diapered pattern.

2.-BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH EDUCATION, Science, &c.

Oxford: Taylor and Randolph Institute.-Having given some account of this structure, at page 202 of our volume for 1842, we must content ourselves with referring to what is there said, not having received further information to accompany the view of it. In its masses, the general composition is bold, striking, and picturesque, and has an unusual expression of richness; yet, when it comes to be more fully examined, some defects and inconsistencies may be discovered. The windows are of a very homely character, and the larger arched ones cut through the entablature of the Ionic order in the wings very awkwardly.

Cheltenham Proprietary College. This handsome collegiate structure, which was commenced in August, 1842, and opened on the 22nd of June, 1843, is by Mr. James Wilson, of Bath, whose designs obtained the preference in a competition with several other architects. The building is executed entirely of stone from Dodswell-hill, near Cheltenham, and stands with its west or principal front (here shown in the view) facing the Bath road. This façade is 240 feet in length, therefore of the same extent as that of the Richmond Theological Institution, described and represented in our last volume, being only 8 feet less; but the plan is considerably greater in depth than that of the Richmond building, it being 90 feet, or 25 feet more than the other. There is also a general resemblance between the two structures as to architectural style, but with considerable differences in regard to composition and design. Here the arrangement of the windows is the reverse of that in the other building, for here the larger and more decorated windows are placed above the smaller ones. The tower in the centre of the front here shown rises considerably above the general mass, and is 80 feet in height, exclusively of the pinnacles at its angles, which increase it to 97 feet. In this tower is the principal entrance, a large and handsome doorway, but the window over it is not of that importance which could be wished, considering the conspicuous place it holds in the composition; it is the smallest of all the windows on that floor, and shows itself as such still more disadvantageously by coming in between the two oriels, and also beneath the loftier window in the upper part of the tower. Within is a vestibule, with a corridor leading to the principal's room and gymnasium, and a staircase leading to the master's room and the library, which are those lighted by the two oriels above-mentioned. To the right or south of the vestibule is a hall 90 by 45 feet, intended for the principal school-room, lighted in its upper part by the

range of large windows shown in that division of the building, and at its south end by the lofty and spacious bay (20 feet wide by 30 feet high, internally), which forms the chief feature of that elevation of the exterior. The gymnasium, in the corresponding portion of the plan to the north, is a hall of the same dimensions, and has a handsome window of nine mullions, which forms the feature of the north gable. Behind the tower is a lecture-room in the east front, 32 by 40 feet, and there is a series of lesser class-rooms along both fronts in the lower part of the plan, which is thus filled up, while the upper portion of the structure is of cruciform shape. The entire cost, including heating appatus, is rather more than 80007.

3. MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS.

Lincoln's Inn.-The new structure now in progress, under Mr. Hardwick, will not only make a great addition to the buildings of this Inn of Court, but be an important architectural feature, and a very conspicuous object from Lincoln's-inn-fields, towards which the whole of its west side will be fully exposed to view. The other buildings of the Inn have very little to recommend them, for, besides that the older ones are so huddled up as to be a confused medley, they are all more or less disfigured by modern alterations and additions, many of them in very barbarous taste, while the new range of building erected by Sir Robert Taylor, and called "Stone Buildings," is altogether different from the rest-is, besides, a very insipid specimen of the style it professes, and still remains incomplete. Great inconvenience having been experienced in consequence of the present dining-hall being used as the Lord Chancellor's Court, and also from its not being sufficiently commodious in itself, the benchers determined to erect an entirely new and distinct building, comprising not only a dining-hall upon a much more extensive scale, but a spacious library, and benchers'-room or drawingroom. The style here adopted is that of the early part of the sixteenth century, or the reign of Henry VIII., of which we have many fine examples. The plan will render intelligible a very great deal deserving to be noticed, but which would else be imperfectly understood, whatever pains might be taken to explain it.

To begin with the dining-hall: at the south end, a, it greatly exceeds the present one in dimensions, that being only 75 by 32 feet, whereas this is 120 by 45 feet, and 64 feet high, it is therefore considerably larger also than Middle Temple Hall, supposing the size of this last to be correctly stated at 100 feet in length and 40 feet in width. One characteristic feature of this hall will be an open timber roof of oak; and all the windows will contain a great deal of stained glass emblazoned with the arms of members of the Inn. There will also be two bay windows at the upper or dais end of the hall. The vestibule, b, connecting the hall with the library and other rooms (c, the council-room, and