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some parish church about to be built may profitably 

 make a pilgrimage to S. Columba's, Shoreditch, and 

 imagine the excellent effect of similar buildings, the 

 designer being invited to discard in them the pointed 

 arch except where solidity or convenience of construction 

 might require it. 



Let us now review the style of church architecture 

 here suggested as regards the fourteen requirements 

 enumerated in the earlier part of this communication. 

 In the first place, as it adopts its principles of construc- 

 tion and ornamentation mainly from mediaeval architec- 

 ture, it can claim a share in the holy memories con- 

 nected with the latter, while, in its repudiation of the 

 narrowness of gothic, it is in harmony with the spirit 

 of St. Philip and the saintly men of the post-Tridentine 

 period. 



The same considerations show that it fulfils the second 

 requirement, that, namely, of having been " originated 

 through Christian influences." The third requirement, 

 "that it should be widely acceptable," is one which it is 

 already well on the way to fulfil. In France, in Bel- 

 gium, in Germany, and even in England, symptoms of 

 a spontaneous and apparently unconscious development 

 in this direction are already to be met with. 



The next requirement, "that it should be capable of 

 adaptation to all needs," is of the very essence of its 

 principles, which are those of mediaeval architecture, it 



