field's church in Margaret-street, there is no east window; the upper part of the east wall being panelled for the reception of frescoes, the lower being plated with alabaster, inlaid with patterns in black and

coloured marbles.

A spacious brick church also, like the preceding, a free church, and like them of some architectural pretensions, has just been opened near the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway. Of the exterior, which is of white brick, with some red intermingled, only the ends are seen; the entrance end, which is marked by a plain porch and a large circular window, being in Market-street, the chancel (or south-east) end in Star-street. This last has a large decorated window, with some good tracery in the head; and beside it rises a tall but thin tower, with a roof spire, both rather quaint than beautiful. The interior has a large, open, and airy aspect, quite refreshing after looking at some recent Gothic interiors; and some novelty is imparted by making the first arch of the nave from the chancel much wider than the others. The chancel wall has the fashionable alabaster plating. Mr. R. Hawkins is the architect. Still another brick church of large dimensions, and of somewhat pretentious appearance, is being erected in London. It stands in Commercial-street, close by the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway, has a large apsidal termination, and a decidedly foreign character.

St. Peter's, Great Windmill-street, is remarkable for its picturesque west front, the only portion not shut in by the surrounding houses. This front, a lofty gable with buttresses terminating in crocketed pinnacles, has a central, deeply-recessed, triple-arched arcade or porch, the supports being massive double shafts set one behind the other. Above is a large four-light Second Pointed window. On either side are lobbies lighted by lancet windows; and at the extremities are octagonal turrets. The interior consists of a nave of four bays, lighted by a clerestory, with side aisles; and a chancel with apsidal termination. The windows are plain lancet. In the spandrils of the clerestory are medallions, on which are to be carved the twelve apostles. The carvings throughout are very good. The church cost about 6,000., the ground on which it is built a like sum. The architect was Mr. R. Brandon. This gentleman has just completed another church, Holy Trinity, Knightsbridge, which has the same peculiarity as that just noticed, of only showing one end. This front has an irregular gable, with an octagonal turret and short spire at one angle; a large decorated window of four lights, the head of the arch being filled with circular tracery. The central doorway has over it a tall gable with a cross at the apex. The lower part of the front has blank arcading, the lowest line filled in with flint-work. The interior is only 70 feet by 33 feet, but has galleries round three sides, and accommodates 650 persons. It has a high and rather elaborate open timber roof, in which is a range of clerestory windows, affording at once light and ventilation. Less rich externally, and less satisfactory as a whole than the Windmillstreet church, this has yet some suggestive points about it, and, like the former, shows what may be done by a little variety and freedom of design to break the monotony of a row of houses, though only a narrow slip of space be available.

St. Luke's, King's Cross, also in a line with the houses, which come close to it on either side, has no feature of novelty to call for notice. It is just one of the thousands of ordinary churches, "Decorated" in style, which have been sown broadcast over the land. It is of stone, has (or rather is to have, for at present it is only carried up to a level with the roof) a central entrance tower, with windows of the ordinary kind. The interior has a nave of five bays, aisles, gallery at entrance, and clerestory, borne by octagonal columns, with a bold chancel arch, a wooden roof, and a stone pulpit: all perfectly orthodox, respectable, inexpensive, and utterly uninteresting. It will, however, no doubt, prove a good serviceable church in a neighbourhood where one was much wanted. It has 1,200 sittings, of which half are free, and has cost about 7,000l.

A new district church of St. Stephen, South Lambeth, with parsonage adjoining, has been built at the sole charge of the Rev. C. Kemble, formerly incumbent of the chapelry of Stockwell (from which the district is taken), but now rector of Bath. The church consists of nave and aisles, large transepts, and a shallow chancel, with an intensely ugly circular window. It will accommodate 1,000 adults on the floor, and 400 children in the organ gallery at the west end. At the north-west angle is a tower rising in three stages, with pinnacles at the corners, and crowned by a stone spire, which rises to a height of 140 feet. The interior has the somewhat novel feature of being without columns, and consequently presenting an unbroken auditorium 100 feet long and 45 feet wide. The nave is lighted by tall gabled windows; the transept by large five-light traceried windows. The whole is solidly constructed of Kentish rag and Bath stone, and, with the parsonage, cost upwards of 15,0007.

Of the churches in the suburbs the most elegant is one by Mr. Talbot Bury, in Hanger-lane, Tottenham, built at the sole cost of F. Newsam, Esq. It is a cruciform church of the Second Pointed period; is built of brick faced with Kentish rag, with Bath-stone dressings and consists of nave and aisles, transepts, chancel with octagonal apse, and chancel chapels, in one of which is placed the organ; and has a tower and spire at the south-west angle, rising to a height of 127 feet. The interior is 110 feet long (of which the chancel is 36 feet) and 48 wide. Both exterior and interior are finished with great delicacy and refinement. The outline is irregular, the roofs are high-pitched and of all heights; the window tracery varied and good. The interior is exceedingly graceful; the apse of good form and richly ornamented, and the arches of the chancel chapels have an unusually pleasing effect from the delicate flat carving on the face of the voussoirs and on the soffits. Indeed the carving is throughout very excellent. But, with all its elegance, it is a church strictly of the reproductive school; one that might just as well have been built before the Reformation as now, for any special adaptation it has to the service of the Church of England. It has only about 600 sittings, yet its acoustic properties seemed to us, sitting some way back in the church during a morning service, to be far from perfect; at any rate, to have been much less carefully studied than the mediæval proprieties. But the indistinctness of the words may have been partly due to the fact that the pulpit is fixed so as to have a

huge transept pier directly in front of the preacher, and to the way in which the discourse was read. Adjacent to the church is a parsonage, built in correspondent style: the cost of both was upwards of 11,000%.

St. Luke's, Hornsey Rise, though less refined in style, and less elegant as an architectural composition, is a very creditable Second Pointed church of the ordinary character. It is built of Kentish rag and Bath stone, and consists of nave and side aisles, transepts, and chancel with chapels; the south chapel, as is now so usual, containing the organ. The tower is not yet built. It has 750 sittings. The architect is Mr. A. D. Gough.

Several other churches are in progress in London and its vicinity— at Islington, Moulsey near Hampton Court, Crouch End, Hornsey, Wandsworth-road, &c. And several of the new mission and school churches have been built or are in progress-among others, at Kentish Town, Shoreditch, Bedfordbury (by Mr. A. W. Blomfield), Bromley, &c.; but we must leave them, and turn to the churches newly erected in the provinces.

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All Souls' Church, Haley Hill, Halifax, has been already described in the Companion; but as it has this summer been completedall the statues on the exterior having been placed in their niches, the interior carving and painting finished, and the painted glass windows inserted-and as it is one of the most remarkable of the churches recently erected in the country, we give an engraving of it in its finished state, and take the opportunity to say a few words on its general character. As will be remembered, it has been built at the sole cost of J. Akroyd, Esq., the architect being Mr. G. G. Scott, R.A. It is built throughout of the most carefully selected stone, the shafts are of granite, Derbyshire or Devonshire marble, according to their position; and white and coloured Italian marbles, serpentine, and alabaster are among the costly materials freely used in the construction and decoration. The form and general character of the exterior are shown in the engraving; but the effect of the statues, the carving, &c., can, of course, only be very imperfectly indicated. The height of the spire, it may be mentioned, is 236 feet. In our engraving the spire looks of somewhat disproportionate height; but it does not appear so in reality. On the contrary, not only does the steeple form a very rich and graceful object in itself, but it combines well with the building from every point of view, and stands out finely against the sky when seen from a distance. The interior is very striking from the solidity and simplicity of its constructional features, and the extreme richness of the decorations. The nave arches are of wide span. The clerestory, of more elaborate character than usual, has medallions with heads of the first bishops of the English Church'in high relief. Over the chancel arch is a fresco of the heavenly choir praising the Lamb. The east window is of five lights, with circular tracery in the arch. The chancel is very richly decorated; shafts of black marble are at the angles of the chancel arch, while the side arches have shafts of polished granite. The roof is of wood, boarded, and highly decorated. All the windows are of painted glass. The proportions of the interior are very good, and the whole effect very grand.

Mr. Scott has during the year completed a church at Hawkhurst, Kent; in style French Gothic of the purest period; small in size (having under 400 seats), but described as of very graceful appearance. It has been built at the sole cost of the incumbent, the Rev. H. A. Jeffreys, and his sister, Miss C. E. Jeffreys. Another small church, completed by Mr. Scott, is that of St. Stephen, Higham, Kent. It consists of a nave, with north aisle, 50 feet long and 29 wide, and a chancel 28 by 16 feet; has a circular tower and porch at the west end; will accommodate 230 persons, and has cost 3,600l. The style is Early Second Pointed.

A church of more than usually ornate character has been erected at Dalton Holme, near Beverly, from the design of Mr. John Pearson. It is cruciform, and has at the west end a tower and spire-both elaborately decorated-200 feet high. The nave is 57 feet long, 23 wide, and 50 high; the chancel is 34 feet by 30. Both east and west windows are of large dimensions, have rich tracery, and are filled with painted glass. The style is Early Second Pointed; the tracery of all the windows being different. It cost about 20,0007.

At Bemerton, near Salisbury, a church has been erected by subscription, as a memorial to Herbert the poet, who was incumbent of Bemerton at the time of his death, the old church having fallen into a state of decay. The new church consists of a nave 65 feet long and 25 wide, with on the north a narrow aisle, and on the south a short aisle or chapel for children and a porch; a chancel 35 feet long and 22 wide, and at the north-east angle a square tower, the lower part of which serves as a vestry. The church is of the transition period from First to Second Pointed, very irregular in outline, height of roofs, and so forth, and, though somewhat heavy in appearance, not unpicturesque. There is some good carving in the church, also stained glass windows. Sittings are provided for 365 persons. The architect was Mr. T. H. Wyatt.

Another noteworthy memorial church, also designed by Mr. Wyatt, is that erected at Tottenham, Wilts, at the cost of the Marchioness of Ailesbury, in memory of her mother, the late Countess of Pembroke. The church is cruciform, with, at the intersection of the nave and south transept, a tower and spire 120 feet high. Externally it is faced with flints, banded with courses of Sarsen stone, and has dressings chiefly of Bath stone, a little coloured stone being inserted in the window-arches. The interior is lined throughout with Bath stone. Shafts of coloured marble are employed to support the chancel arch, and in some other places. The chancel terminates in a polygonal apse, the lower part of which is lined with majolica tiles: both nave and chancel are paved with Minton's encaustic tiles: all the windows are of painted glass. The memorial, an elaborate piece of sculpture in marble, is placed in the entrance porch.

Of the remainder of the country churches it will suffice to give a list-very imperfect of necessity, but sufficient to show that the marvellous revival of church-building has in no way fallen off. Of course the churches are all Gothic-nobody thinks of building a church now in any other style-but the Gothic of to-day is a different thing from the Gothic of the early ecclesiologists. Every one who has watched the rise and progress of the Gothic revival in England must have seen