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cles. A chaste and decorous simplicity prevails 

 throughout all the arrangements of the interior. The 

 pulpit, reading desk, &c., are of wainscot, the pews 

 and free benches being judiciously painted to corres- 

 pond. The communion table is handsome and 

 massive, also of wainscot, designed in correspondence 

 with the style of the chapel. The altar-piece is in 

 imitation of granite, and the usual inscriptions of the 

 Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Decalogue are exceedingly 

 well executed in the manner of letters graven on 

 stone. The communion rail is of cast iron, of an 

 appropriate pattern. 



The composition (we suppose we may call it) of 

 the entire east end, including the altar recess and 

 the great window, is exceedingly pleasing, but we 

 decidedly object to the appearance of the two pulpits, 

 for the reading desk and pulpit are really so, being 

 precisely similar in height and in every other respect. 

 We are advocates for a central situation for the 

 pulpit, as well as for its greater height, on the 

 grounds of ecclesiastical propriety ; and always feel 

 that it is putting the clergyman to unnecessary 

 trouble to cause him to come down from the pulpit 

 on one side of the church, to go up into the pulpit 

 on the other side, without any apparent reason what- 

 ever, except for the purpose of preserving architectu- 

 ral uniformity, which might be far better consulted 

 by a different arrangement of the pulpit and reading 

 desk. 



The font, at the west end, is one of the most 

 beautiful we have seen ; executed in dark Plymouth 

 marble, (by Mr. Greenham, of Russell Street, Ply- 

 mouth) octagonal in form, with the faces adorned by 

 quatrefoils. The exterior of the chapel presents a 

 substantial appearance, — the buttresses, door and 

 window frames, drip stones pinnacles. Sec, being all 

 of wrought lime stone, as are likewise the pinnacles 

 by which the body of the edifice, and the tower, are 

 ornamented. 



The chapel was opened for divine service on the 

 5th of July, 1832, with a sermon by the late minister, 



