REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 645 



The two base courses will be carried around the first story. Above the base courses 

 the first story will be battered, per plans, and all the corners will be dressed so as to 

 be perfectly true and even. A splayed water table will finish the first story. 



Second story. — All the corners will be dressed true and even, so as to be perfectly 

 plumb, when laid. 



Windows. — There will be two windows in each side with splayed sills, jambs, and 

 arches. 



Loop-holes. — There will also be one cross-shaped loop-hole in each side, sunk 

 through the walls and cut perfectly true and even, with trefoils on the ends of the 

 arms. 



A hooked label mould will be carried around the tower, and well cut. The para- 

 pet of the first story, over the label, will be a broad band of cut stone, finished on 

 top with a splayed coping. 



Third story — The base or sill course of the third story will be well cut and splayed 

 on upper edge. 



The windows of the third story will form a continuous arcade all around. The 

 jambs and the centre mullions will be cut to section shown on plan D, No. 1. 



All the columns will have plinth bases and foliage Norman caps. The section of 

 the arch will be same as that of jamb, except that a square or octagonal moulding 

 will take the place of the shaft of the column. The tracery will be eight to ten 

 inches thick, the arches will be raised, and over them a quatrefoil pierced through 

 the panel in the head of each tracery. 



A corbel course of small moulded corbels, seven on each side of the tower, well 

 cut, will be carried around under the cornice of the third story. The cornice of the 

 third story will be octagonal and well cut. The whole story will be eighteen inches 

 higher than shown on plan. 



Fourth story. — The base course will have a splayed top mould or water table on 

 which the window sills will rest. 



The window sills will be six inches high. The windows of the fourth story will 

 also form a continuous arcade. The jambs will be cut to the section shown on plan 

 D, No. 2, and the arches will be of trefoil form, and cut per directions of architect. 

 All the columns will have plinths, caps, and bases of good design. 



A hook label mould will be carried around under the parapet. 



The parapet will contain two sunk panels on each side, each of which will be of 

 handsome Norman pattern, of such design as may be approved by architect. The 

 parapet will be sixteen inches thick, and dressed on both sides, and will be coped by 

 a coping twenty inches bed, cut to the section shown on plan T>, No. 3. 



A balustrade of columns, with caps, bases, arches, &c, will fill the spaces between 

 the jambs of the windows of fourth story, per end view. 



The northwest corner tower will be divided externally into three stories. 



The first story will be similar to that of the southeast corner tower. 



The second story will be square with splayed corners, handsomely cut ; it will rise 

 from a splayed base mould, and have two windows with rebated jambs on each side. 

 The cornice of the second story will be a hook label mould, over which will be a 

 plain parapet, with splayed coping well cut. 



Third story. — The base course will be well cut, with a splayed top. 



Windows. — There will be four windows, with sills 10 inches high, well cut. The 

 jambs and arches will be a splay and column in a rebate, with handsome plinths, 

 caps, and bases. The centre mullion will be a column on a pilaster. The tracery 

 will be eight inches thick, with raised arches, and a quatrefoil pierced through the 

 panel in the head. 



In the gables over the windows a sunk quatrefoil panel will be cut. 



The coping will be a hook label mould, 18 inches bed, grooved as usual to receive 

 the roof covering, and a neat finial will be cut for each gable. 



Central rear tower. — The two base courses will be carried all around the buttresses, 

 &c. All the corners of all the buttresses will have an arris run along them. All the 

 mouldings and buttress caps will be cut in the best manner, and of most approved 

 design. 



Door. — The door jambs will be of the section of four rebates, containing four 

 detached shafts or engaged columns, having bases and plinths handsomely moulded, 



