640 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



inches high. Jamhs of first tier of windows will consist of a splay and column, (see 

 plan A, No. 7.) Arches of splay and octagon, (see plan A, No. 8.) A label resting 

 on corbels will be carried around the heads of the windows and niches. The mullions 

 will be cut to the form of a double jamb, with a fillet between them, (as shown in 

 Nos. 8 and 8.) 



Tbe bases, plinths, and capitals, will be furnished for all the columns of such design 

 as architect shall direct, and they shall have foliage caps well undercut. 



In the arches the column will be replaced by a square with a bead on the angle, or 

 by an octagonal mould, (see plan No. 9,) and the remainder of the arch shall be the 

 game as the section of the jamb. 



Corbel courses over the first tier of windows. — A handsome corbel course, with 

 moulded corbels under the arches, shall run all around both towers, (see Nos. 10 and 

 11,) and project from six to eight inches ; a moulding shall run over the head of the 

 corbel course, with a batter on top to shed the rain. 



Between the corbel course and the band under the second windows a panel course, 

 well sunk, (see plan A, No. 12,) will be carried around both towers, of such design 

 as architect shall direct. 



The sill course under the second windows will be a semicircle and fillet, and five 

 sides of an octagon, of the height shown on plan, and finely cut. 



The sills of the second tier of windows, will be 15 inches in thickness. 



The jambs, arches, labels, plinths, bases and caps, will be of- the same section as 

 those of the first tier ; they will be finely patent-hammered or well cut, and of such 

 dimensions as to section as the architect shall direct. 



Corbels over second tier of windows. — On each side of each tower, nine or ten cor- 

 bels or modillions of good design, handsomely moulded, will be placed, and of such 

 size as architect shall direct. These corbels will support an octagonal moulding, well 

 cut, and of such dimensions as architect shall direct. 



The sill course of paneled arcade, over this octagonal moulding, will be of such 

 dimensions and section as architect shall direct. 



A paneled arcade of seven to eight arches, supported by pillars, with plain caps 

 and bases, will be-carried along two sides of each tower — 32 panels in all ; they will 

 be sunk of such depths as the architect shall direct. 



Moulding over arcade and splayed sill course. — Over this arcade a label mould with 

 a splayed sill course, having in it one break and being a continuation of the buttress 

 caps, will be carried around three sides of each tower, of such dimensions and section 

 as architect shall direct. 



Above the sill course, the sills of the upper windows, which will be 15 inches high 

 and of such section as architect shall direct, will be carried. They will be well cut. 



Windows, third tier. — The third tier of windows will vary in the two towers per 

 plan ; there being a double window on each of the four sides of the larger tower, and 

 a triple one on each of the four sides of the lower tower. The section of all the 

 jambs will be as shown on plan A, Nos. 7 and 8, and they will be of such dimensions 

 as the architect shall direct. All the columns of all the above jambs will have plinths 

 and bases of good designs and foliage Norman caps, approved bj T architect. The 

 arches will have the same section as the jambs, except over the pillar caps, where the 

 circular shaft will be replaced by an octagonal moulding. 



Finish of lower central front tower, above third tier of windows. — 1st. A corbel 

 course projecting 10 inches from the face of the wall, of semicircular corbels, sup- 

 ported on brackets, will be carried all around the four sides of the tower. Over this 

 an octagonal moulding ; over this a zigzag or paneled moulding, of such dimensions, 

 pattern, and workmanship as architect shall direct, well sunk ; over this zigzag or 

 paneled moulding, an octagonal moulding — then a vertical band ; over this band a f 

 circle ; and over this a cove, with an octagonal or splayed top for the cornice or 

 coping. 



All the above mouldings to run all round the four sides of the tower, and to be of 

 such dimensions, workmanship, and design, as architect shall direct. The upper bed 

 of the upper stone or coping will be at least 30 inches, with a groove sunk one inch 

 all round, to secure the roofing material, to prevent all leakage. 



Finish of larger front tower above the third tier of windotos. — Four circular 

 windows for clock faces, one on each side of the tower, of a diameter not exceeding 

 nine feet, will be placed over each set of double windows. The jambs will be of the 

 section shown on plan A, No. 14, and in the mouldings the numbers of the hours 



