THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



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DuKiNFiELD Chapel. 

 This chapel is now erecting on the site of the former edifice, C«hose dilnpi- 

 <latefl condilion and inadequacy in supplying room for the largo congregation 

 asscmljling therein, rendered the erection of a new and more commodious 

 building absolutely necessary,) from the designs of Mr. R. Tattersall of Man- 

 cliester. 



The style of architecture which has been adopted for the structure now in 

 lirogress, is that which prevailed at the commencement of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury, when our architects began to add refinement in the details to the many 

 beauties which characterise their works, and to introduce those changes in 

 the early English style which immediately precede and ultimately form and 

 distinguish the decorated style. 



The plan of the chapel is cruciform, with a lofty nave and transepts 

 lighted by clerestory windows, the nave h.iving aisles lighted by lancet windows. 

 Tlie cast and west ends of the nave project beyond the ends of the aisles ; in 

 the west projection are the principal entrances with a children's gallery over, 

 whilst the east projection contains the vestry and private entrance with a 

 gallery over aflording ample room for a powerful organ and numerous choir. 

 The principal elevation into which it has been thought advisable to intro- 

 duce whatever decoration might be used, consists of two octagonal turrets 

 flanking the west wall of the nave, strengthened by massive doub'e buttresses 

 in three stages, the lower part terminating m weathered canopies, the middle 

 having weathered offsets, and the upper being formed into niches, surmount- 

 ed by canopies, uniting with the weathering of the turrets, and the parapet 

 moulding of the west gable. The lower and upper canopies to the buttresses, 

 are terminated by appropriate finials. At the termination of the buttresses 

 the turrets become isolated and ^e continued in two stages to the base of the 

 pinnacle, the lower stage having shafts at the angles with moulded bases and 

 capitals supporting pointed arches, and in each face of the octagon is a nar- 

 row slit or opening in the form of the ancient ballislraria, whilst the upper 

 stages have plain shafts at the angles, with a narrow lancet opening, having 

 the tooth ornament in the hollow surrounding the same, on each face of the 

 turret. The turrets finish with lofty pinnacles having shafts at the angles, 

 and terminating in finials, the highest part of which will be 73 feet above the 

 surface of the ground. One of these turrets will contain a bell, and the other 

 is to serve for the clock weights. The turret in which the bell is to be sus- 

 ]iended will contain a winding staircase for access to the clock-room in the 

 roof the nave. 



Between the turrets to the west front are three doorways forming the prin- 

 cipal and gallery entrances to the chapel. These are boldly recessed, the 

 eentre door being much wider than the side ones, and are formed into one 

 group by the arrangement of their shafted joints, moulded archivolts and 

 the triangular canopies with which they are surmounted. The moulding 

 over each canopy, unites with the hood moulding of each door, and termi- 

 nates upon carved heads, whilst the apices of the canopies finish with carved 

 finials, the centre one being quite isolated in the opening of the window over. 

 Kach canopy is filled in with deeply cut tracery. In the hollows of the arched 

 heads and between the shafts of the jambs, it is intended to introduce those 

 Very effective enrichments, known as the ball flower and leaf ornament and 

 the tooth ornament. The three doors will be of oak, relieved by the quaint 

 and beautil'ul ramified iron scroll-work so characteristic of this style of archi- 

 tecture. Immediately over the doors is a four hght window formed with 

 shafted mullions and jambs, and filled in with the rich and elegant tracery, 

 which we find immediately preceding the flowing lines of the decorated style. 

 The ball flower and too h ornaments will be introduced into two of the 

 hollow mouldings of the jambs and head, and the window will have a hood 

 moulding terminating on carved heads. Above the window, and in the gable of 

 this front will be placed the clock dial, wdiich it is intended eventually to 

 make transparent. This is in the form of a multifoil surrounded with bold 

 mouldings, and in the intervals of the cusps will be placed the figures of the 

 dial. The gable of this front which is very lofty, (as are all the others owing 

 to the high pitch of the roof), is surmounted by a richly carved finial, and 

 in the mouldings of the parapet the ball flower ornament is again introduced. 

 The whole of the plain ashlar to this front is to be neatly tooled, but the 

 moulded work and dressings are to be rubbed or polished. The remaining 

 fronts of the building are of a much plainer and simpler character, and are 

 to be faced with neat hammer dressed walling stones, the dressings being 

 tooled. All the exterior of the chapel is to be faced with the best Yorkshire 

 stone. 



The sides of the aisles are divided mlo compartments by buttresses of an 

 early character, having a single off-set, and uniting at the top with the 

 parapet, which is supported between them by quaintly cut corbels, and 

 finishes with a tablet or coping formed by the moulded cast-iron gutter. In 

 each comj^artmcnt of the aisle are plain lancet windows, with neat hood 



moulds terminating on carved heads. The transepts project some little be- 

 yond the sides of the aisles, and there e.>;ternal angles, as well as those to the 

 east end of the nave, are flanked by plain buttresses of a s milar character to 

 those of the aisles, and divided into three stages with plain off-sets. The 

 three gables are covered by a plain coping, terminating in canopies at the 

 lower ends. In the gables to the transepts and east end of nave are openings 

 for light and ventilation to the roof, and the same kind of corbels are intro- 

 duced to support the parapet as are used to the aisles. In the end of each 

 transept are triple lancet windows united together by their hooii mouldings, 

 the centre being higher than the side ones. The clerestory is divided 

 into compartments by flat buttresses ranging with those to the aisles, sur- 

 mounted by a parapet and coping of a similar description to those already 

 mentioned. In each compartment are triple lancet windows having hood 

 mouldings terminating on carved bosses. The principal entrance door opens 

 into a porch or vestibule formed between the two staircases to the galleries, 

 from which it is separated by screens ornamented with tracery, and having 

 doors of communication. From hence, inner folding-doors open directly into 

 the body of the chapel, which is divide<l as before described into nave and 

 transepts, the former being flanked by aisles from which it is separated by 

 light piers formed of clustered shafts, supporting on richly moulded pointed 

 arches the clerestory walls, in which there is a narrow lancet window over 

 each compartment. The aisles are also open to the transepts from which they 

 are separated in like manner. The galleries will e-xtend across the west end 

 of the nave over the aisles and across the transepts. The nave and transept 

 ceilings arc to be groined throughout with moulded ribs on all the intersec- 

 tions of the vaulting, and against the wjlls, springing from corbels formed 

 by clustered, shafts affixed to the clerestory walls. The ceiling to the aisles 

 is to be fonned into neat plain p.anels. A neat screen extends across the 

 east end of the nave in a line with the ends of the aisles, separating the vestry 

 from the chapel, against which is to be placed the pulpit, to be entered from 

 the vestry through an opening therein. The pulpit will have a highly en- 

 riched canopy or sounding board, and the whrle is made to harmoiuKe with 

 the screen and the general character of the building. Around and beneath 

 the pulpit, which is supported by a cluster of shafts, is the space allowed for 

 the communion altar on a raised platform enclosed by a neat railing. Be- 

 yond the screen and over the vestry is the organ gallery, and it is intended 

 that the front of the organ-case shall be made to assimilate with the screen 

 as much as possible. At the opposite end of the nave, and over the principal 

 entrance is a gallery capable of containing upwards of seventy childre , 

 leaving an uninterrupted view of the four light window in the west front. 

 Vaults are tbrmed under the west entrance, and there is a cellar under the 

 vestry for warming the chapel with hot water. 



The e.\treme length of the building will be 94 feet, and the width across 

 the nave and aisles 50 feet, that across the transepts 61 feet. 

 The chapel will contain sittings for 977 persons. 194 of which arc free. It 

 s expected that it will be completed and ready for divine service towards the 

 latter part of this year. The cost of its erection will be defrayed by sub- 

 scription. 



HISTORY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE. 



Mr. Editor — Being anxious to make myself acquainted with the 

 history of architecture in tliis country, I regret to find how inadequate 

 are the records hitherto collected by writers on the subject, to enable 

 one to form an accurate conception of the vicissitudes of the art in 

 England. This has excited in me the desire to collect such materials 

 on the subject, as may be useful to my professional brethren. I beg 

 therefore to appeal Sir, through you, to all parties who may have any 

 information to give of men of such standing as Vanburgh, Hawksmoor, 

 Gibbs, Carr of Vork, Morris of Bath, Kent, Gandon, Taylor, Chambers, 

 Dance. I shall feel much obliged either by being referred to sources 

 of information, or by being furnished with the lists of the works which 

 such men as these may have executed. I of course confine myself to 

 no period ; on the contrary, I would wish to embrace the earliest, as 

 well as the most recent, epochs of the history of English Architecture. 

 I am, Sir, very faithfully, your's, 



Thos. L. Donaldson. 



7, Hart Slree/, Bloomsbitry Square, 

 Dtcembtr 20, 1S39. 



Soulh-cnstern Railway. — The rapid progress of the works of the South- 

 eastern Railway is giving quite a lively aspect to Folkestone. TliCibridge 

 across the Canterbury and Dover roail is also completed; and the adviince- 

 ment of the line on either side is going on in a highly satisfactory manner. 

 — Dmcv Chronicle. 



