REPORTS OP THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 651 



the wall. The coping will be 12 by 24 inches, cut to the form of five sides of an 

 octagon. 



A handsome finial will be well cut for the apex of the gable. 



The buttresses will have the corners well and truly cut, with moulded caps, finished 

 in the best manner. 



Sides of west wing. — The east side of the west wing will be finished in precisely the 

 same manner as the west side, except so far as it is covered by the connecting range. 



The base courses will be carried all around. 



There will be six small windows in the basement, with splayed jambs, arches, and 

 sills. 



The water table will be carried all around over the basement, per directions of 

 architect. 



The buttresses projecting eight inches from the face of the walls, and connected 

 with arched heads, will be carried up perfectly plumb, true, and even, and all the 

 arres of the buttresses and arches will be well and truly cut. 



Sill course under the windows will be cut to the form of five sides of an octagon. 



The sills will be eight inches in thickness. 



The jambs and arches of the windows will be splayed or rebated. 



A corbel course will be carried all around both sides of the building, of large semi- 

 circular arches, supported on foliage brackets. The corbelling will project from 10 

 to 12 inches from the face of the wall. 



The coping will be 12 by 24 inches, cut to an octagonal form, with a groove to 

 receive roofing material. 



The walls connecting the central rear tower and the main central buildings will be 

 out with doors, windows, arches, corbel courses, mouldings, and battlements, pre- 

 cisely similar to those hereinbefore described ; connecting the central front towers 

 with main central building. 



GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS. 



All the window sills will be splayed. 



All the doors will have sills and steps of the size, rise, and tread, directed by 

 architect. 



All the door and window sills will be well patent-hammered, and brought to a 

 joint not exceeding ^ of an inch. All the jambs and arches, with the labels over 

 them, will be fine cut and patent-hammered, and no spauls will be allowed on their 

 faces. In the jambs and arches of the principal doors, the joints shall not exceed T 3 g- 

 of an inch. In the jambs, arches, &c, of the remaining doors, and of all the win- 

 dows, the joints shall not exceed f of an inch. In all the capitals of all the columns 

 the foliage will be well relieved and truly cut, and the plinths of the columns will 

 be in some cases octagonal, and in others circular and square, and well cut. 



All the bands and mouldings will be well and truly cut, or rubbed. 



All the ornamented bands and mouldings will be well relieved, and truly cut, or 

 rubbed. 



All the moulded and ornamented corbels will be cut in the best manner. The 

 foliage will be well relieved. 



And all the battlements, labels, buttress caps, and all the remaining cut work, will 

 be executed in the most true and perfect manner. 



All the cut work hereinbefore specified, of every description, will be of the form 

 and dimensions and according to the plans furnished by the architect. 



Contractors are referred to the following architectural works for the character of 

 the different mouldings, capitals, and other ornaments, used in the building. 



Doors, windows, and cloisters. — For capitals, bases, and plinths, see Moller's Denk- 

 -mahler, part I, plate VI. Door of cathedral of Mayence, (A,) plate IX. Details 

 of columns, cathedral of Mayence, (B,) plate XI. Door of church of St. Leonard 

 at Frankfort, (C,) plate XII. Door of the sacristy of the cathedral of Mayence, 

 (D,) plates XIV, XV, and XVI. Details of the cloister of the church of Aschaffen- 

 burg, (E,) plate XVII. Details of the church of St. Paul at Worms, (F,) plate 

 XVIII. Details of the doors of the transept at Frieburg cathedral, (G.) 



Also, Pugin and Le Keux's Normandy, plate V. 



Also, Glossary of Architecture, plate 28 ; St. Nicholas, Caen, and St. Peter's 

 Northampton. 



For corbel courses. — See Pugin and Le Keux's Normandy, plates 1, 10. Then 

 Church, plate 1, and Glossary of Architecture, plate 37. 



