1840.] 



THE CIA^L ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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iwmont tu tlie iieiKliljiHiiliooil. The ciilliji- ilam in tlie Avuii. in uliicli iho 

 miildle siipporl of Ihc iiroposcil bridge will be eivcte.l, has not yet been cleared 

 of water. Init every effort is being made to effect that object. At the tunnel 

 near Ralhwick-terraee the workmen have commenced the formation of a per- 

 manent wav ; and near llimpton-row great advance has been made during 

 the last live or six weeks. At Hampton and the fields beyond, the cuttings 

 and embankments are in a forward stale. Close by the stone bridge, between 

 Hampton and Bathwiek, the works are also beginning to alter the face of the 

 landscape. — Biitli Journal. 



South Enslerii Ilailma/.— The rapid progress of the works is giving quite a 

 lively aspect to I'olkestone. The bridge across the Canterbury and Dover 

 road is also completed; and the advancement of the hne on either side is 

 going on in a highly satisfactory manner. — Dort'r Chronicle. 



Li'cih mill Manchester Ralhmji. — Uapid progress is making in the con- 

 struction of the tunnel at the summit lietween Liltleborough anil ."<o Imor.lon, 

 and it is gener.ally expected that the whole line will be conipleied in the 

 autumn of the year 1 840. Tlio numlxM- of passengers now travelling in the 

 railway carriages betv\'cen Manchester and Littleborongh is perfectly amazing 

 and approaches nearly to 3,000 a day ; nor is this to be wondered at, « hen it 

 is considered tiuit it is actually cheaper for a labouring man to ride upon the 

 railroad than to walk upon the higmvav. as the journey of thirteen miles is 

 performed in half .an hour by steam, which would require four h(}Urs for a 

 foot passenger, and the fare for travelling in the stand-itp-carriages amounts 

 only to one penny a mile. — Derby Reporter. 



rjE-W CHURCHES, &c. 



Warw'idcshlre. — A new Church is about to be erected at Attleborough, in 

 the parish of Nuneaton, on a site the gift of the Earl of Harrowby. There 

 .are upwards of three acres and a half of land, which it is his lordship's w ish 

 should be laid out advantageously for the benefit of the clergyman, and it is 

 in contemplation, reserving saflicient for the church, burial ground, parsonage' 

 house, croft and schools to form a street of comfortable duelling liouses, the 

 proceeds of which are to form part of the endowment. It is designed by Mr. 

 Thomas L. Walker, in tlie early pointed style, with a handsome triple «est 

 window, ami a small tower at the south west angle, containing a cloclc-room, 

 belfiy, ringer's floor, and a staircase leailing to a west g.allery. At the east 

 end is a semicircular apsis, on each side of which, against the east wall of the 

 cliurch, the pulpit and reading-desk are placed. It is cruciform in plan, a 

 i-obing-room and a porch forming the arms of the cross. The dimensions of 

 the body, inside the walls, are 73 feet by 39 feet, and is calculated to accom- 

 modate 472 persons, viz. 112 in pews, and 3G0 on benches. 



jill Saint's Church, Spicer Street, Mite End New Town.— On the 2M\ of No- 

 vember this church, erected and endowed at the expense of the Metropolis 

 CInirches Fund, was consecrated by tlie Bishop of London. It is designed 

 in the Norman style by Mr. Thos. L. Walker, and has a tower, situate on 

 the South side, tabled off and terminated in a neat square bell turret with an 

 octagonal roof, llie body of the church metisui'es 74 ft. G in. liy 54 ft. (i in. 

 in the clear inside ; the roof is in one span, with a queen truss ojien to the 

 straining piece, it is slightly ornamented, and the timbers are chamfered ; the 

 tie-beams are supported by brackets springing from ornamental stone corbels, 

 Tlie pulpit, designed it is presumed to Imitate stone, by the details made use 

 of, is rather inappropriately grained heart-of-oak ; it is chaste in style, open 

 underneath to admit of an enuance into the re.ading-desk. The altar piece 

 is cleverly managed, at a small expense, by arched recesses being formed in 

 the brickwork,; wherein the Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the 

 Belief, are written in appropriate but perfectly legible characters, the initial 

 letters in red and blue, the rest in black on a stone-coloured ground. The 

 chancel is lighted, not from the east as usual, but from the north ,and south ; 

 by this means the ghire, which often proves distressing to the congregation, 

 « hile regarding the preacher, is avoided, while the rays of light, falling upon 

 the alt.ar table trom the south, during the greater part of the day, must tencl 

 to produce a pleasing effect. Attached to the Church is a spacious vestry, 

 24 feet by lli feet, w ilh a neat Norman tire-place executed in IJath stone, and 

 is provided with coal -cellars, &c. Ther« is accommodation for 1110 

 persons: the church and vestry were contracted for by Mr. West, of Can- 

 non Street Koad, at £4095. 



New Churches in H'otverhanipton. — On Friday, 22 Nov., the plans for a ne\r 

 church in Horsley Fields, one ot the intended three new churches in Wolver- 

 hampton, were submitted to a meetnig of subscribers, in the large room in the 

 Swan Hotel. The plans were 21 in number, and many of them very elegant 

 designs: they were all ui the Gothic style. Five of them were selected for 

 further consideration, and were exhibited to the subscribers at large, at the 

 same place. — Stajfontshire Advertiser. 



FUBIjIC buildings, Acc. 



Warwickshire. — All extensive Hospital, or range of almshouses, is in course 

 of erection at Bedworth. near Coventry, from the designs and under the su- 

 perintendence ol Mr. Thomas L. M'alker. The main building forms three 

 sides of a cloistered quadrangle, which sets back 90 feet from the street ; 

 towards the street, on the right hand is a porter's lodge, and on the left a 

 tenement to correspond, each with a neat oriel window, leavin"; the quad- 

 rangle open to view, and an iron palisade, with ornamental brick piers and 

 stone caps, complete the street frontage. It is calculated to lodge 40 pen- 

 .sioners, 20 m.ale and 20 female, each h.aving a separate bedroom and pantry ; 

 a sitting-room is provided for every two. In the centre of the quadrangle is 

 a spacious dining-room for the governors of the charity, a committee-room, 

 a steward's office, and a kitchen, with accommodation fur a nurse. The 



dining-room is in the form of the ancient halls, and Ii:is four bays attached 

 to it : the porch occupies one, the butler's pantry another, and the two others 

 are open to the room : an orniimental screen at the lower end parts off the 

 passage leaihng from the porch to the committee-room, 8cc.; over the two 

 front b lys are strong-rooms for deeds, one opening into the steward's office, 

 the other is asceniled by a circular stone staircase from the hall itsidf. From 

 the roof of the h;dl rises an ornamental bell turret, and clock-room in tlie 

 form of an ancient Louvre. The whcde is designed in the la'e Gothic style, 

 (he windows being square-headed, with niullions and transoms, except those 

 of the hall, which are four-centre-pointed, with mullions and tracery. The 

 whole is to be faced with red bricks, and to have stone dressings to the doors 

 and windows and stone motings. Mr. .lohn Toone, of Ix'amington, is the 

 contractor for all the w ork.«, except the hall r.iof and clock turret, at £8.51)0. 

 rjanhwcri/, Carmartlicnshire. — The committee appointed to examine and 

 rei'Ort upon the designs for a market, met in ticcor.lancc to an advertisem.'iit 

 oIUm ing a premium tor the best design, have adopted the design of G. Clin- 

 ton, architect of Cardiff. 



iaiSCEI.LANEA. 



EFFECTS OF LARGE FIRES IN PREVENTING STORMS. 

 (Translated from the French.J 



M. Matteucci had pointed out the practice recently introduced into a 

 parish of Koinagna of lighting large tires for the pin-pose of preventing the 

 formation of storms, and remarked that during three years that this practice 

 had been adopted, the parish, which until then had every summer been ra- 

 vaged with hail, had been spared, while the neighbouring parishes had not 

 escaped. 



M. Arago, when quoting tlils fact in his notice upon thunder, {Jmiuaire 

 (III, Bureau des Longitudes, 1839^, remarked that such short experience 

 would not allow us to consider the residt conclusive, and added that more 

 exact data would doubtless be obtained on this subject, by comparing with 

 those of the neighbouring agricultural districts, the meterological observa- 

 tions of certain districts in which high chimneys and large factor}' tires arc 

 used are very numerous. This comparison, said he, had been already made 

 in England, but the results although in favour of the preservative influence of 

 large tires, did not show this influence free from doubt. In fact high fur- 

 naces in Euglaiul are particularly numerous, where there are many mines ; 

 tlie rarity of storms therefore in these places may just as well be attributed 

 to the nature of the soil as to the action of the large fires, which are required 

 for the reduction of the minerals. 



M. Matteucci has now pointed out another locality in which this influence 

 of metallic veins is not mixed up \ritli that of large fires. While travelling 

 in the .Apennines, he found that those districts in Hhich charcoal and sulphur 

 are prepared, are not much subject to storms, and are free from hail. He was 

 told that about five years ago a hail storm burst over the piu'isli where the 

 sulphur furnaces are, but the place where they arc established was preserved. 

 The place mentioned here is Perticaja, near Rimiuo, where there is a number 

 of these furnaces. 



Mr. CocJcerill's Manufactory. — Advices from Liege state that Mr. John 

 Cockcrill has set out for St. Peter.-iburgh, taking withhim one of the chief 

 persons employed at h s works, and three engineers. The I'auperor Nicholas, 

 it is added, has advanced Mr. Cockcrill 10,000,0001'. at 5 per cent, secureil on 

 all his establishments in Belgium, Russia engaging to purchase tinnually. to 

 a certain amount, machinery to be manufactured in them, which is to uimi- 

 ni.-.h annually, as the Kmperor, assisted by Mr. Cockcrill, shall ha\e created 

 similar establishments in his own dominii ns. — Midland Counties Herald. 



Rouen. — A design li r a tonil) to receive the heart and statue of Ivichard 

 C'o'ur de Lion, in the style of the 12th century, has been prepaicd by M. 

 Deville, conservator of monuments in the Cathedral of Kouen. It is proposed 

 to place it in the Chapel of the Virgin in the cathedral, near the tomb of 

 Cardinal d'Aniboise ; and it is supposed that the execution of it will begin 

 bef(pre the end of the present year. — French paper. 



Encroachment of tlie Sea. — The sea, it is said, is encroaching upon every 

 part of the Cornish coast. In the memory of many persons still living, or 

 but lately dead, the cricketers were unable to throw a ball across the Wes- 

 tern Green Ijel ween I'enzance and Newly, which is now nut many feet in 

 bre:idth, and the grandfather of the late vicar of Madron is known to have 

 received tithes from the laud under the cliff of Penzance. At a very remote 

 period, we are assuri .1 by tradition, that a considerable part of the pre.sont 

 bay especially that comprehended within a line drawn from near Cudilon 

 Point, on the east siile, to Mousehole on the west, was land covered with 

 wood, but which, by an awful convulsion and irruption of the sea, was sud- 

 denly swept away. There is a letter extant, written in the reign of Charles II., 

 to the then proprietor of an estate, which included part uf the Western Green, 

 and that part is there estimated at 3H acres of p.isturage,— Pe«x«Hcc Gazette. 



Egypt.— Machmes have been brought from Kngland to drain the marshes 

 at Alexandretta, where the stagnant waters fill the country wiih malaria. The 

 same cause propagates fever in the Egyptian army at Jlarasch, Adana, and 

 other places, 'ihe hospital service is very badly arranged. 



Royal Beli^ian Steamers.— The Belgian Government, in the budget of the 

 Minister uf 'Public Wo:ks, alluding to the marine, notifies that "a separate 

 project will be submitted to the Chambers to meet this expense, whether by 

 nietins of a transfer, or by m/ans of a special cr.'dit, destined to complete the 

 system of the railroad by some steam-boats." This measure of M. Nothumb, 

 which is considered, even by the leaders of the Opposition, to be the ablest 

 one projected since the .settlement of the country, is the favourite of M. de 

 Tlieux, and said to be impressively sanctioned in the highest quarter. 



