don Bridge, consisting of an upper platform or railway for carriages, supported on four rows of cast-iron columns (7392 in number); beneath which would be the terrace for foot-passengers, who would thus be able to walk about a mile and three quarters entirely under cover. It is an objection to both plans, that the road must intersect two or more bridges in its course. 1. CHURCHES, &c. The Twenty-first Annual Report of the Church Commissioners shows that 23 churches have been completed within the last twelvemonths, providing accommodation for 21,636 persons, of which one half, or 10,933 sittings, are free. Thus, altogether, 281 churches and chapels have been erected, affording sittings for 349,889 persons, of which 193,412 are free seats. The churches mentioned as just finished are:- at Stayley Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne; Bretherton, in the parish of Croston; Scholes, in the parish of Wigan; Every Street, Manchester; Ashby-de-la-Zouch; Derry Hill, Wilts; Peckham; Park Road, Lambeth; Watney Street, St. George's in the East; St. Peter's, Bethnal Green; Clapton; Dalston; Hackney; Kendal; Duckingfield, Chester; Bagilt, Flintshire; Batley Carr; Bridlington Quay, Yorks.; Foleshill, Warwick; Oldbury, Salop; Sedgeley, Stafford; Portsea, Southampton; Buglawton, Cheshire; and Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Sixteen other churches are now in progress, viz. Ayres Quay, Bishopswearmouth; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Heworth, county of Durham; Camberwell, Surrey; Cwmamen, Carmarthen; Newtown, Cambridge; Attleborough, Warwickshire; Coventry; Bistre, Flint; St. Andrew, Plymouth; Streatham; Wilton Place, Knightsbridge; three chapels-St. James's, St. Andrew's, and Friars' Mount, Bethnal Green; and Keighley, in the county of York. Plans for the following churches have been approved by the Commissioners, viz. at Kimberworth, Dodworth, and Thurgoland, Yorkshire; Gainsborough; Paddington; parish of St. George, Southwark; Newtown, Montgomeryshire; Cardiff; Stretford, in the parish of Manchester; and Byker, in the parish of All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. For six other churches the plans are now under consideration, viz. Totworth, Somersetshire; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; two chapels, Bristol; Norbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames; and Easton, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, in the city of Wells. The two following chapels have been built and endowed by private individuals, in whom, and their heirs, the patronage is vested-one at Southall Green, Middlesex, by Henry Dobbs, Esq.; the other at High Orchard, in the city of Gloucester, by the Rev. Samuel Lysons: to which may be added six others, erected and endowed by subscription, viz. a chapel on the King's Parade, Clifton, of which the patronage is vested in the see of Bristol; one at Barton St. Michael, in the city of Gloucester, whose patronage is similarly vested in the bishop of the diocese; one at Litherland, in the county of Lancaster, vested in trustees; one at Wray, in the same county, ditto; one at Houghton, Cumberland, ditto; and one at Twickenham, to be vested in the Bishop of London. Streatham. What we said of this building in our former volume (page 229) will have prepared our readers for its peculiar character. Feeling that the proposed fund would be altogether insufficient for carrying into effect a uniform design founded upon any of the modes belonging to our English Gothic, Mr. Wild has here adopted one which has enabled him to confer unity of expression upon the whole of his fabric, and to make the exterior and interior perfectly correspond with each other. It is simple almost to severity. Of what is generally understood by ornament there is here very little, nor is there any great variety of forms; nothing however is omitted that the design obviously demanded, nor are there any marks of negligence. Of this Church it is not the least merit that, though there is apparently so very little in it to produce effect, there is a far more than the usual degree of it, and that too of a peculiar kind. The Church forms a simple parallelogram of 85 feet 6 inches by 57 feet, extended at the east end by a semicircular apsis, making the entire length 18 feet more, or 103 feet 6 inches. The monotony, however, that might arise from this uniformity of plan, is counteracted by the campanile being made to project from the south-east angle. This campanile is 15 feet square, and 85 high, or, measured to the summit, 113. The decoration elsewhere adopted in the Church is resorted to both in the upper part of the campanile and in its spire, which last shows an inlay surface of red and white brick forming a chevron pattern on it. Of the proportions and component parts of the west front, the annexed cut will convey some idea, though none of its effect, since it is a mere elevation of that end of the church, with the omission of the peculiar expression it derives from its polychrome decoration, and apart from which the forms themselves may seem rather poor. Our representation is also necessarily imperfect by losing the perspective of the three arches, the centre one of which is 10 feet square, with a door on either side leading to the gallery staircases. The arch of the larger recess is to be filled up over the doorway with a piece of sculpture by Bonomi, which will be painted and gilt. The lateral elevations show two tiers of windows below, the first or lower tier consisting of only four windows, while the other has triple that number, forming a continuous arcade, by which arrangement the interior of the building perfectly accords with its exterior. On each side of the nave are five pointed arches similar in form to those of the west front, not resting upon piers or clustered shafts, but springing from the capitals of columns, tall rather than slender in their proportions. Between each arch are two smaller ones below of similar character, which support the front of the galleries. The altar recess, or apsis, which is somewhat more than a semicircle, being 17 feet in width by 11 |