1830.] 



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of thischurcli was performed on the 18th ult, by the Archliishop of Canter- 

 bury, in the presence of a Vu-ge Ijody of tlie clergy and several thousand 

 spectators. The church is in the early English style of architecture, and is to 

 be Ijuilt of Kentish rag stone. Its interior dimensions are 92 feet by 31 feet 

 6 inches in the clear, with a gallery at the west end, for the singers and 

 clnldren, and contains 600 sittings. It has a lower at the west end, sur- 

 rounded with an octagonal spire, being together 110 feet in height. The plan 

 of the church at the ca.st end is in the Ibrm of half a decagon, siinilar to 

 many of the cluirches on the Continent. The contracts amount to rather more 

 than 2000/. — -■/ Parsim/iae Ilinise is also in the course of erection, situate close 

 to the church. Tlie band on which Ijoth the church and parsonage are build- 

 ing, was the gift of the lliglit Hon. the Earl of llomney. The funds for the 

 erection of the church and parsonage have been raised by public suljscription, 

 aided by a grant from the Church Building Society. 



Uadley Church. —The Dean of Hereford, whose taste for ecclesiastical archi- 

 tecture is well known, lias alVected a gre it improvement in the tine old 

 church. He lias had all the rubbish removed that had collected from time to 

 time about the building to that extent that not one portion of its lj:ise was 

 visible. He has converted useless materials into matters of utility and orna- 

 ment ; he designed a communion table, a pair of magniticeiU chairs, kneeling 

 stools, reading stands, and eomiuunion rail, and repaired the stalls, all of 

 wliichhehashadmost beautilully executed by his parish oner Mr. Davies. lie 

 has had all the painted glass arranged that was scattered about in the dif- 

 ferent windows, and placed the whole in the windows of the chancel, making 

 a most agreeable point in harmony of colour, as well as having C(dlected the 

 Scriptural subjects into that order that they were originally designed for. 

 The good taste displayed by the Dean in the arrangement of these matters, 

 gives an interesting appearance to the chancel ; and in addition to these im- 

 provemels, the Dean lias made further designs in the hojie that he .shall, with 

 the help of his parishioners, see them executed. — Felix Furh'i/s Brisliil 

 Jottriial. 



Diiiikinfield. a Presbyterian chapel on an extensive scale, is now in course of 

 erection under the direction of Mr. Tattersall. of Manchester. We shall, 

 next monlli, give a lull description of its architectural character. 



PUBLIC BUIIiUINGS, Stc 



Brecon. — A new Shire Hall is about to be erected at this place, for wdiicli 

 fenders are requested. 



Hilcheti. — A new Town Hidl is about to be erected, for »hich tenders are 

 requested. 



The Union Banic of London. — A spacious building is about to be erected fur 

 this Bank, in ArCTle-place, Regent-street, under the direction of Messrs. 

 Newnham and Webb, architects. 



Chutswortli. — The conservatory which has been erected for his Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire is 375 feet bing. 125 feet wide, and 75 fi'ct high in the 

 centre. We believe it is by far the largest in the world. 



The Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. — The works of this building erecting 

 from the designs, and under the general superintendence of Mr. Moseley.the 

 county surveyor for Middlesex, are proceeding rapidly. The building pre- 

 sents a principal frontage of 525 feet to the south-west; the two extreme 

 ends for a length of 112 feet, projecting 117 feet forward; tlie centre forms 

 three sides of a quarangle. the [irinci pal elevation of which is completed by 

 the superintendent's house, which, by advancing 68 feet, and having an in- 

 creased elevation, sustains the con.sequence of the centre. The general line 

 to the sky is broken by six towers at the angles, having an additional sfxjry, 

 and being surmounted by Ijattlements. The building will contain 350 patients, 

 is fire-proof throughout, being entirely surmounted by an iron-ruo:. The 

 stile Elizabilhen, — the principal front is faced with red kiln-burnt bricks, 

 with bath-stone rustics to the quoins, plinths, cappings. muUions. reveals, 

 strings, copings, and caps, and bases to the chimnies, and it may be said gene- 

 rally, that (small as the estimate may appear) no expense has been spared 

 in making the building worlhy of the rank which its dimensions entitle it 

 to hold, either as to its picturesque or substantial construction. Tlie con- 

 tract with Messr.-! Baker and Sou. the builders, inclusive of the olTices, and 

 airing court, walls, &c., is under 45.000/., subsequent contracts have been 

 entered into for warming and heating the baths with Messrs Barlow and Co., 

 and for the apparatus for making and laying on oil-gas througliout, with Mr. 

 DeviUe of the Strand. 



ANTIQUITIES. 



Roman Pavement. — Lately in excavating the ground for rebuilding the Hall 

 of the Worshipping Company of Dyers, in t'idlege-street, Dow'gate-hill, at 

 13 ft. 8 in. below the level of the street, and just above the gravel, the work- 

 men came to the remains of a Roman pavement, formed of small pieces of 

 tiles about an inch square, bedded apparently on line c<jncrete ; two thin 

 earthen jars or bottles were also found near the s.ame spot, one of w Inch is in 

 a perfect state, and two coins nearly obliterated. The lower part of the 

 ground in which the above were found, for i ft. 6 in. in thickness appeared 

 to be Ihc sediment or earthy matter from water, probably of the ancient 

 U'allbrook, and in it, scattered over the surface, was a large quantity, 

 20 CH t., of animal bones. 



Newark Castle. — The interior of this venerable pile of feudal grandeur, 

 Hliicli has resisted the storms of war and the fury of the tempest for more 

 tlian 700 years, is now cleared away, and the site of the ground where the 

 deatn-stricken and licentious John, the pedantic James, the equivocal Hen- 



rietta. ;ind the irresolute and vacillating Charles, bore so conspicuous a part, 

 is shortly to be opened as a cattle market for the borough. The ground is 

 the property of W. !■'. Handley, Esq. who purchased it at the late sale of the 

 crou n lands. — Nottingham Review. 



Ancient Trundle Wheel. — A part of an ancient trundle wheel was found a 

 few days ago in Chalmerstoii Kloss, on the surface of the clay, and about 15 

 feet of moss above it; from which circumstance it is .supposed th.it It must 

 have bain there for nearly 2.000 years. The construction is remarkiibly sim- 

 ple. The various parts are held together without nails, but in a strong and 

 efficient way. — Stirling Observer. 



Roman Causewaij. — Some works for improving the channel of the Scheldt 

 have necessitated several extensive cuttings across the old Roman causeway, 

 called La Chausee de Bruuehaul, which connects, in a straight line, the tow iis 

 of Bavay and Tournay. These cuttings took place on the spot described in 

 the itinerary of Antoninus as the Pons Scaldis. In the course of the work 

 there have been discovered, on various points, remains of constructions and 

 large quantities of materials, wliicli indicate the site of a town or large vil- 

 lage, and it appears that m this locality several bridges h.ad been thrown 

 over the Scheldt. This discovery shows that the point given by antiquaries 

 as Pons Scalilis. was not merely a bridge over tlie Scheldt, but a Roman 

 station, which was probably fortified. 



Roman Pavement. — A very interesting discovery was made a few days hick 

 in digging a cellar near the High Bridge. The workmen uncovered a large 

 portion of Roman pavement composed of rude material. A layer of stones 

 had first been placed down, and over these, obli((uely and about half an inch 

 apart, small flat \\]e&. the whole being converted into a solid mass by filling 

 up the crevices with a red cement. 'I'he pavement was a foot lielow the pre- 

 sent surface, and was evidently the floor of a Roman dwelling-lionse. It was 

 broken up, and removed ; the fragments now lie on Mr. W. Rudgard's w harf. 

 — Stamford Mercury. 



Hull. — Modern improvement has just destroyed the most ancient building 

 in Hull, except the chance! of Trinity Church, the oldest relic in the towii. 

 The space required for the erection of a new watch-house, leased by the cor- 

 poration of the town to ihe Comniissioners of Her Majesty's Customs, has 

 led to the pulling down of ihe old Chain House, at the south end of High- 

 street. — Hull Advertiser. 



Ancient Coin. — In one of the cuttings of the railway near Croydon, a few 

 days since, a workman found a gold noble of Edward 111. in excellent preser- 

 vation. On the obverse side is the king in a ship, crowned and in iirmour, 

 with sword and shield, Ihe latter bearing the arms of England and France" 



!VIISC£:i.IiANE:A. 



Alloy of Metals. — A curious and valuable discovery has just been made in 

 tlie alloy of metals. A manufacturer of Paris has invented a comptisition 

 much less oxidable than silver, and which will not melt at less th:in a heat 

 treble that which silver will bear; the cost of it is less th:in 4r/. an ounce. 

 Another improvement is in steel ; an Englishman at Brussels has discovered 

 a mode of casting iron so that it flows from the furnace pure steel, better 

 than the be t cast steel in England, and almost equal to that which has 

 undergone the process of beating. The cost of fliis steel is only a farthing 

 per pound greater than that of cast iron. 



Engraiung on Marble. — Mr. Rayner. of Derby, has made a discoverv in art 

 — a new method of engraving on marble. .S.jme of bis pictorial efforts have 

 elicited great admiration. Her Majesty is in possession of a variety of speci- 

 mens, and the nobdity in England and France have introduced them into 

 their draw ing-rooms. 



L.ccture on Architecture. — On "Wednesday evening, the 7tli uU., the 1 st of a 

 course of six lectures, an ICcclesiastical and Domestic Architecture, w;ls de- 

 livered by Mr. Hadfield. of Derby, to the members and friends of the Me- 

 chanics' Institution, of Ilkeston. We understand that Mr. Hadfield intends 

 lecturing in every town and large village in tlie county of Deiby, as be is de- 

 voting his time to an Architectural survey of its Churches; an accurate de- 

 scription of which he is about to publish in a small work, to be entitleil, ''An 

 Architectural Gazetteer of the county Derby." 



Falling Stars. — During the niglit of Friday and Saturday the 9tli and lOlh 

 of August, the heavens were bestrewed with little falling stars of extraordi- 

 nary brightness. Mr. Forster counted above 600 of them. It is not a liitle 

 singular that the peasants of France and .Saxony have believed for ages past 

 that .Saint Lawrence weeps tears of fire, which fall from the sky every year 

 on his fete, the lOtli of August. This ancient German tradition, on observa- 

 tion, has led within these few years to the discovery of a fact, wh ch now en- 

 gages the attention of astronomers. The inhabitants of Brussels can hear 

 witness that in the night of Ihe lOtli of August this year Saint Lawrence shed 

 abuud.ance of tears. 



A new method of preserving iron-work froin rust has been communicated by 

 M. Paymento the French Inslitule. It consists in plunging Ihe pieces to be 

 preserved in a mixture of one part concentrated solution of impure soda, (soda 

 of commerce,) and three parts water. Pieces of iron left for three months in 

 this bqui I had lost neither weight nor pcjlish : whilst similar pieces immersed 

 for five days in simple water were covered with rust.' 



Simple Remedy to Purify Water. — It is n;.t generally known as it ought to 

 be, that pounded alum possesses ihe property of purifying water. A large 

 table-spoonful of pulverized alum, sprinkled into a hogshead of water (the 

 water stirred round ;ii the time), will, after the lapse of a few hours, by pre- 

 cipitating to the botlciui the impure piirlicles, so purify it that it will l.c found 

 to possess nearly ;dl the freshness and cle:irncss ol the finest spring wJiter, 

 A iiailful containing four gallons, may bu [.urified by a single tea -spoonful. — 

 Doucaster Chronicle, 



