THE 



CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'^ 



JOURNAL. 



THE NEV\' SYNAGOGUE. GREAT ST. HELEN'S BISHOPSGATE-STREET. 



J. DAVIES, ESQ., ARCHITFCT. 



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SECTION. 



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Scale of Feet, 

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30 



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On tuming to the Index of our last, or w c .should say our first 

 volume, our readers will there find the pages referred to, where wc 

 have already spoken of this building. To the second account there 

 given of it we have now little more to add, except that the cuts will 

 supply information as to various particulars not pointed out at 

 pa^e '339. 



The section shows the general style of the interior, and the design 

 of that end at which the ark is placed, also the arrangement of the 

 lamps, and of some of the candelabra; but it conveys no idea of the 

 effect, either as regards splendour of colour or perspective appear- 

 ance. Most of our readers, however, will, so far from requiring to be 

 reminded of this, be able to complete the picture for themselves, from 



No. 16,— Jamvart, 1839, Vot, II, 



the sketch here given ; or shoidd they not have done so before, lliey 

 will now most likely take an opportunity of visiting the building 

 itself. We ourselves have not seen it since it was opened for service, 

 but .should judge that it must look particularly rich ^hen lit up; 

 though at such times the effect of the jiainted windows within the 

 ark inust be lo>r— not, however, necessarily so, because a few gas- 

 burners placed before them on the outside would show to perhaps 

 even greater advantage than bv day, and would diffuse a brilliancy 

 and glow over the upper part of that recess. We caimot conclude 

 without congratulating Mr. Davies both on the opportunity he has 

 had for displaying his taste, and the able manner mth which he has 

 turned it to account. 



