dressings and various architectural members of Caen stone; and all the details are as carefully executed as they are ably designed, in which latter respect the architect (Mr. E. B. Lamb) has manifested that true artistic economy which makes every touch bestowed upon his work tell, and which produces completeness and consistency of ensemble.

At Thirkleby, in Yorkshire, the same architect has, by rebuilding it, substituted for an exceedingly poor and insipid modern structure by Wyatt, in his sort of classical style, a singularly picturesque and strikingly characteristic village church, with a tower and spire on its north side, near the west end, at which end, in an angle, is the entrance porch. Altogether different in design from the chapel at Brompton, this church has similar merits, not the least among which is truthfulness to the real spirit of the style adopted, the result of thorough artist-like study of it.

At Meanwood, near Leeds, a new church has just been opened, which, though of no particular architectural interest, affords another instance of private munificence, it having been erected at the sole expense of the Misses Beckett, of Meanwood Park. The best feature of the building, which was designed by Mr. Railton, and is in the Lancet or First-pointed style, is its broach spire placed on a low tower at the junction of the nave and chancel, where there are also two small transeptal projections in the plan.

Wavendon Church, Bucks, chiefly through the liberal contributions of private individuals, has been restored by Mr. Butterfield, and has further had a more than usual degree of embellishment bestowed upon its interior. The windows of the chancel, and those at the east end of the north and south aisles, have been filled with subjects in stained glass, and all the others with quarries of flowered glass. The chancel is decorated even sumptuously: it is divided from the nave by a low screen whose mouldings and panels are coloured green and red on a white ground, and it has gates of solid brass, ornamented with enamel work, and supported by standards of the same metal, which terminate in richly tufted finials. The roof of this part of the church is of oak, with panels containing a profusion of gilded stars upon a ground of ultra-marine. Around the hood of the great east window is an illuminated scroll with a legend inscribed upon it. On the south side of the chancel are three sedilia, which, together with the piscina and credence table, form an arcade of canopied niches, relieved within by ultra-marine and gilding. The altar table has a magnificent pall of green and crimson velvet embroidered with gold-coloured silk. The pavement of the chancel is of buff and red encaustic tiles, but immediately around the altar, of a rich blue colour; while that of the nave consists of red and black tiles arranged in patterns, and jointed with Keene's white cement.

The Unitarian Church, Hope-street, Liverpool—which has been very recently opened for the congregation the Rev. James Martineau-is a remarkable structure, in which some of the most elaborate features of our Early Ecclesiastical architecture are re-produced. The architects are Messrs. Barry and Brown. The church consists

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, enterti 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 fe 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