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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



I Decembeb, 



ijass refreshment-room, CG feet lonji hy 33 feet wide. At one end 

 is a distinct refreshment-room for ladies, and at tlie other end a 

 corresjiondin;,' room for the har, eacli Ij feet hy 23 feet, divided 

 from the large refreshment-room hy columns only, and forming- 

 with it one large apartment, 9G feet in length. Adjoining tlie har 

 is the second-class refreshment-room, which terminates on the 

 east the range of hnilding facing the |)latform. The kitchens 

 form the eastern end of the front huilding, immediately hehind 

 the refreshment-rooms, and .-idjoining the hotel ; and are proxided 

 with larders, store-rotmis, and ser\ants' rooms, on the same floor, 

 with sleeping apartments ahove. 



In addition to the ahove e.xtensive range of building, it is pro- 

 posed to erect an hotel, communicating with the station, forming a 

 separate range 190 feet in length hy CO feet in depth ; to contain 

 TO hed-rooms, with a proportionate numher of other apartments; 

 Mid in the basement story, tap-rooms and refreshment-rooms for 

 servants and other persons. 



The construction of this building entirely of stone, would, in 

 any other locality, be attended with enormous expense ; but the 

 county of Northumberland aftords such an abundant supply of the 

 finest freestone, that this material becomes there not only by far 

 the most durable, but really the least expensive. 



References to Plan, Plate XIII. 



EAST OF ENTRANCE. 



B Station Master's Office. 



C Lost-Liig^fage Store. 



L> Waterc'losels and Urinals. 



E 2nri Cla?s Gi^ntiemen's Waiting Boom. 



F 2nri Class LRdies' ditto ditto. 



G Ist Class Gt-ntlemen's ditto. 



H 1st Class Ladies* ditto ditto. 



I 1st Class Ladies' Refreshment Room. 



J 1st Class Geneial Kelrealiment Room. 



K Bar. 



J- 2ud Class Refreshment Room. 



M Kitchen and Scullery. 



N Pastry and Store Room. 



O Bar Sitting Room. 



P Store Room. 



Q Waiters' Sitting Room. 



K Waiters' Btd Room 



S Ladies' Attwidants' Room. 



T Washing Room for Ist Class Ladies. 



U Waterclosets and Washing Room for 



2nd Class Ladies.— Part of U is 



Waterclosets for 1st Class Ladies. 



[We had intended to have given a Perspective View of the building, bnt the Engrav- 

 ing, wlikh was entrusted to an engraver at Newcastle, has turnetl out so very defective, 

 that we have been obliged to postpone giving it for another op[]urtuuity, that we may do 

 justice to the taleuts of the architect.— Ed. C.E. & A. Journal.] 



WEST OF E.NTRANCE. 

 A Entrance. 

 B Booking Office. 

 CC Parcels' Office. 

 D Lamp Room. 

 E Oil Room. 

 F Porters' Room. 

 G Engineer's Offices. 

 H Engineer's Pay OtBco. 

 J Clerks' Office. 

 K Urinals and Waterclosets. 

 L Station Master's House. 

 M M Store Hoiisf s. 

 N Telegraph Olljce. 



CANDIDUS'S NOTE-BOOK, 

 FASCICULUS LXXXVIII. 



"I must have liberty 

 M'ithal, as large a charter an the windSf 

 To blow ou whom 1 please." 



I. The organ of Z)e-, as well as that of Cf/n-structivencss, .ippe.irs 

 to be possessed by IJarry and some other architects. After being 

 taken down and pulled to pieces by critics while living, Nash and 

 Soane are now literally taken down and ]iulled to pieces by their 

 successors, — by " literally," however, is not to be umlerstood " per- 

 sonally." The " Board of Trade" of the one, and the Georgian 

 palace of the other, have eipially disappeared, although the latter 

 is merely blurred or blared out. But then, ])oor Nash has been dis- 

 mantled of his Quadrant ctdonnades, which served as a mantle 

 that cloaked a good many of his architectural sins ; besides which, 

 his Brightonian Pavilion is now a wreck, — whether it is to grow 

 interesting by growing into a ruin, remains to he seen. Nor does 

 the work of destruction stop here, for we are now told by the 

 newspapers that Dover-house is to be taken down, in order to 

 make way for a new Colonial-office, to be erected on its site by Mr. 

 Barry; so we must prepare to bid adieu to its tdiarming screen 

 faiade — an architectural gem — not indeed of the first magnitude, 

 but of the first " water," — picturesque, classic, and elegant, al- 

 though ignored by those who lavish their stale and second-hand 

 extasies on St. Martin's Church. Most unfortunate Holland ! 

 thy Drury-lane Theatre expired, like Semele, in flames ; thy splen- 

 did Carlton-house portico is demolished, and now thy e.xquisite 

 little composition at Whitehall is doomed to destruction ! Were 



there no other site to he had in the neighbourhood, necessity might 

 excuse the act of \'andalism ; but excuse for it there is none, while 

 there is a " hoardcd-uii " gap just by, between Downing and 

 Fludyer streets, — which gap is aii))arently not only ho.arded-uji, hut 

 treasured-up, as sfimething infinitely too i)recious to be jiarted 

 with. Therefore the gap is likely to remain, and Uo\er-house to 

 be sacrificed to it, — which is only an exemplification of the feeling 

 and nous bestowed by us upon architecture. 



II. I am no bigotted admirer of Holland; if I think that he 

 showed himself a classic and an artist in the portico of Carlton- 

 house, the farade of the et-dwunt York, now Dover-house, I 

 freely admit that he showed himself to be no better than an arrant 

 Pecksniff in what he did at the Pavilion at Brighton, before Nash 

 took it in hand ; as is shown in the design preserved, most unfor- 

 tunately for his credit in the " Neiv Vitruvius Britannicus." We 

 look on it with a fit of shuddering, and shudtler at the " princely" 

 taste which could adopt anything so vulgar and plebeian, — and not 

 only so vulgar, but so atrociously vile. But George was then " the 

 Prince;" and had he taken a fancy to have columns turned upside- 

 down, his taste would have been cried up by his flunky flatterers. 

 That such a truly miserable design — if design it can be called — 

 should have jiroceeded from the architect who, in the two other 

 works here mentioned, gave evidence of more than ordinary gusto, 

 is hardly credible, — at all events, quite unaccountable. It ought, 

 however, to teach us something, — namely, to judge of works of 

 art (be they buildings, pictures, or anything else) by their intrin- 

 sic merits, — according to what they are in themselves, and not ac- 

 cording to extrinsic circumstances. The opinion that is influenced 

 by the prestige of a name is cowardly and worthless. Even 

 Homer sometimes nods, but we are not therefore to nod again 

 when he does so, in afl'ected ajrprobation and delight. Even 

 Raffaelle sometimes daubed — at least, what would else be cajled 

 daubs, have been passed off under his name, and have, in conse- 

 quence, been admired and extolled for excellences freely imputed 

 to them bythe imagination or else bytheearsof spectators; whereas, 

 daubs they would have been pronounced to be, had it been known that 

 they proceeded from the atelier {i.e. garret) of some Jack Smith, who 

 lives by manufacturing genuine specimens of the Old Masters. A 

 hungry belly — that great artis niayister, as we are assured by most 

 classical authority it is, may be that same Jack's excuse for the de- 

 ception. But what excuse is there for those who suffer themselves 

 to be deceived, to be imposed upon and humbugged by names, and 

 who affect transports which they do not feel.' Give me the honest 

 critic, him who is not at all biassed by names, but who would as 

 freely condemn either Jones or Wren where they have shown them- 

 selves Pecksniffian in taste, as he would Pecksniff himself. " What 

 a strange man you are, Mr. Candidus ! And so you really think 

 that both Jones and Wren were sometimes Pecksniffian in their 

 taste." Even so: nothing would induce me to praise, or rather, not 

 to condemn and turn away in disgust from some of their doings. 

 Few will confess as much, because very few have the moral courage 

 of Candidus, who is in that respect libertine in the extreme, — who 

 is not only nullius addictus jarare in verba magistri, but would anim- 

 advert just as freely on a Palladio, a Jones, or a Wren, as on some 

 poor devil of a "Jack Smith !" Let others affect milk-and-water 

 modesty : I am content to be sincere in opinion, and fearless in 

 the expression of it. 



III. A most curious accident, and one recorded with singular 

 naivete, is tluit which hajipeiied to a certain architect in a book of 

 designs published by him ; it being expressly stated in the letter- 

 ]>ress, that, in one of the elevations, the offices which cmght to 

 have been shown, were "omitted by accident." Very much nearer 

 the mark would it have been to say, that the omission was occa- 

 sioned bv gross stupidity and unpardonable blundering. " By 

 accident,'' forsooth I Would "■ accident" be received as an excuse 

 for a painter sending home your portrait without a nose to your 

 face, he having through sheer forgetfulness omitted that interest- 

 ing, or at any rate indisi)ensable, feature .'' Certain it is that, with 

 regard to the unlucky elevation here alluded to, the omission was 

 discovered before the plate was published, since otherwise, it 

 would not have been apologised for ; which being the case, why was 

 not the error itself corrected .'' One, and indeed the only valid 

 reason may have been, that the design looked all the better for 

 the accident. If that was not the real reason, the only other 

 imaginable one is, that the expense of altering the plate could 

 not he afforded by the poor devil who published his designs. The 

 reader will agree with this l.-ist hypothesis, when informed that the 

 work here referred to was by Soane ! That poor man seems to 

 have been not merely the sport, but the very victim of 

 " accidents ;" for, on the very next page of that book, we read, 

 " the arched recesses were semicircular in the dra« ing, but by a 



