them and the clerestory windows is a triforium, a feature that gives a very unusual degree of richness and variety to this part of the interior. Besides being distinguished from the nave by being on a different level, the chancel will be more elaborately decorated here there will be a good deal of foreign marble and old glass; the floor will be paved in imitation of mosaic, and the groining of the roof and the semi-domes of the three apses will be painted in fresco. The pulpit and font will both be of marble. The whole, it is expected, will be entirely completed in the course of 1843.

Christ Church, Westminster.-This is one of the churches referred to in the Report of the Commissioners as being in progress; and although it was not commenced till last May, the works are considerably advanced, though not so far as to display the general design, because the most important feature in it does not yet show itself, viz., the tower and spire, the united height of which will be 200 feet,-only 25 less than the towers of Westminster Abbey, and 50 more than the spire of St. George's, Woburn Square, which last is at present the loftiest of any of the modern Gothic structures in the metropolis. Neither

is it height alone that gives effect to this part of the design, for it is otherwise of superior character, ably composed and boldly marked in outline, as may be judged from the annexed view.

From this it will be seen that the tower is placed on the north side of the west end of the church, whereby that stiff formality is avoided which is so disagreeable in many modern structures of the kind. Had it been put exactly at the west front, such a tower would have caused the body of the church to appear disproportionably small in comparison with it; whereas it now shows itself in some measure as an independent structure combined with the other, but so as rather to aid than interfere with it, and so as to be aided by it in turn. Should it nevertheless be objected that the tower appears to preponderate too much in the design, such excess is in this case by no means an error, because, owing to the situation of the building (in Broadway, Westminster, on the site of an old chapel built in the reign of Charles I.), the church would be comparatively shut out from public view were it not that the tower and spire will point out its locality, and will form a fine architectural object from St. James's Park, and for a considerable distance on each side in other directions. The style chosen by the architect (Mr. Ambrose Poynter) is Gothic, of the latter period of Early English. The exterior will be wholly of stone, and the arches, pillars, mouldings, &c., of the interior will be of the same material. The internal dimensions of the body of the church, or nave and aisles, are 94 feet by 50 ft. 6 in. in width, exclusive of the apsis or chancel at the east end, which is separated from the rest by a richly moulded arch and clustered columns, and also distinguished by having an ascent of six steps up to it. Though there will be no pews, there will be galleries, these being intended exclusively

for the children of the National and Parochial Schools,-about half the number the church is intended to accommodate, viz. 1500 persons. The extreme height of the west front is 67 feet, including the cross on its apex. As soon as this edifice shall have been completed, which it is expected to be by the end of 1843,

other improvements will, it may be presumed, take place in its immediate neighbourhood, where they are very much wanted; and should that prove the case, there will be no cause to regret that a more favourable locality should not have been selected for such an edifice, while so many others of the kind, which have no merit to recommend them, occupy far more conspicuous situations.

French Protestant Church, St. Martin's le Grand.-The taking down the former church in Threadneeedle-street has proved the occasion of giving us two pieces of architecture of no ordinary merit; for, while a noble structure has risen on the site of the old French church, the new one is a very tasteful specimen of Gothic. In point of size it is inconsiderable-no more than a chapel-but neither does it affect to be more, and, therefore, if small in itself, is free from that littleness which so offensively marks many modern structures of the kind which are of much larger dimensions. In quality of design it as much excels them as it is surpassed by them in mere size: no more has been aimed at than has been satisfactorily accomplished, and without stint. At the same time it could be wished that this French church had been made in some degree a specimen of French Gothic, had it been little more than to the extent of introducing into the window at the east end or front towards the street tracery of flamboyant character. The minister's

residence, which is attached to the south side, contributes not a little to the picturesqueness of the whole composition. We understand that the architect's name is Owen, and that the cost of the building is about 50007.

All Saints, Gordon Street.-The east end of this church, which is nearly all that shows itself of the exterior, is certainly not a commonplace design, it being strongly marked by many peculiarities, some of which appear more overstrained than they might have done had the whole been more of a piece, for at present there is a tameness, and a poverty also, about some parts that cause others to look extravagantly overdone. The mate→ rials employed are white brick and stone, but in rather singular proportions; for, while the shafts of the four pilasters are merely of brick, the two doors are loaded with a mass of carved stones work over their cornices, not forming pediments, but placed merely as extraneous decoration, of rather questionable taste. Here there might very well have been some retrenchment; and also in regard to the coloured marble in the frieze, which has been spoken of as a novelty, yet it amounts to no more than small pateræ, or circular disks, which look no better than so many round holes or spots-certainly convey no idea, at least no favourable one, of the effect to be obtained by employing coloured marble on the exterior of buildings. Some fancy is shown, but it is of rather a perverse kind; and there is such a want of keeping in the whole, that whatever merit may be allowed to one or two parts, it is by no means satisfactory in the en semble.

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2. BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH EDUCATION, SCIENCE, &c. Cambridge: New Libraries, &c.-If criticism may object to some parts of the external design in this work of Mr. Cockerell's, it finds many redeeming points in it, and much to admire in the interior. The Library on the upper floor of the building, forming the north side of the intended quadrangle, is now completed, and forms a noble apartment of striking and peculiar character. (See Companion' for 1840, pp. 238, 239.) The arched or waggon-headed ceiling is entirely of stone, wrought into diamondshape or lozenge coffers; and the Ionic columns present a beautiful variety of that order, which, from its having hitherto been scarcely at all applied by modern architects, has, independently of its intrinsic merit, the charm of novelty, they being derived from the example of the interior order of the Temple of Apollo at Bassæ. In the section at p. 239 of the volume above referred to, these columns show themselves to be only Ionic, the cut being intended merely to explain the general form and proportions of the room, as described in a transverse section through it, without any attempt at detail. Much less, therefore, does it convey any idea of the perspective effect and ensemble of this interior. Much of this effect is produced by the mode of lighting, and by the position of the windows seen over the screen enclosing the centre portion of the room, in its lower part. By this arrangement the space above is not at all diminished; a series of small reading-cabinets are obtained on each side, behind the screen, admirably adapted to their purpose, each being lighted by a window facing the entrance through the screen. The screen itself forms a range of book-cases, above which are the upper parts of the centre or insulated square pilasters, along the sides of the centre division of the plan.

Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond.-Important for its size, and not for its size alone, this collegiate structure is one that would not discredit either of our universities. A competition for the building took place in the summer of 1841, and the design chosen and adopted was that by Mr. Andrew Trimen. The entire plan is 248 feet by 65, in its greatest depth, and that portion of the front which is between the wings is 165 feet. As what may be called the chief or public rooms are on the ground-floor, that is treated as the principal one in the design thus a different character (one by no means of an unpleasing kind) is produced from what is observable in collegiate structures generally, where the rooms so situated are low, and with smaller windows than those above them. Besides class-rooms, and some others, on this floor are the refectory and lecture-room, each 57 by 21 feet, and the Governor's apartments, all which are 17 feet in height. Beyond the entrance-hall (47 feet by 20), which has a groined ceiling, is seen the principal staircase, branching off right and left. This leads to the library (35 feet by 20, and 20 high), which is the only public room on that floor, all the rest of it being divided into studies or separate sitting