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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[April, 



Journal. Tlie dissenting bodies of the town seem to be making con- 

 siderable improvement in their erections for worship, aixl it is a curious 

 circumstance tliat they arc adopting an ecclesiastical style, whilst the 

 churches are assuming the plainness which used to characterize dis- 

 senting chapels. 



The introduction of the bonding system in Manchester has rendered 

 necessary large warehouses for bonded goods, and a company has been 

 formed which has taken very spacious premises, which are being al- 

 tered to suit the purpose under the direction of Mr. Alexander Mills, 

 architect. It is expected that the building trades will receive a great 

 impulse for the next year or two, in consequence of the want of bond- 

 ing warehouses. We trust that the experience of late years will have 

 taught its lesson, and prevent the erection of warehouses on the false 

 principle of economy, which has proved so disastrous to property in 

 Manchester and Liverpool in cases of fire. In Church-street we ob- 

 served a large warehouse, now being erected, completely fire-proof; 

 and in the new mills round about they are adopting the same plan. 

 Iron cornices and facings are in some quarters being substituted for 

 the old wooden ones, but altogether we should pronounce Manchester 

 behind Liverpool in the adoption of fire-proof material. 



The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company have recently erected 

 an extensive pile of workshops, for the manufacture of locomotive 

 engines, about a mile from town. Mr. Bellbouse was the contractor 

 for the building, which has been completed at an expense of about 

 £17,000. 



It may be incidentally remarked that upwards of £30,000 have been 

 subscribed for the purchase of sites for the public parks and walks ; 

 and it is intended immediately to layout four large parks, with lodges, 

 &c., in different parts of the town. This measure will be a great boon 

 to the people, as such breathing places have been much required in 

 such densely populated neighbourhoods. 



Upon the whole, we may congratulate the inhabitants of Manchester 

 upon the progress of improvement in their town, and we do so the 

 more earnestly as we know that the amount of public revenue to be 

 devoted to these purposes is comparatively small; so that the result 

 must be attributed to the public spirit of the inhabitants of this (in 

 more respects than one) great community. 



P.S. Since writing the above we learn that the Town Council of 

 Manchester have purchased the Manorial Rights from Sir Oswald 

 Mosley, for the sum of £200,000, and that it is purposed to build 

 markets on a scale commensurate with the wants of the large and in- 

 creasing population. 



E. C. 



GWILT'S GLOSSARY. 



Sir— Your correspondent P.Hill has fallen into a mistake in saying 

 that Gwilt has omitted the term " Antefixae," but there is some ex- 

 cuse for his having overlooked it, because it is misplaced, owing to 

 its being raispelt, viz. Antifixffi. However, though there is so far one 

 omission the less, there are numerous others which your correspondent 

 has not pointed out, and some of them are remarkable ones, especially 

 if we consider the copiousness and the minuteness which Mr. Gwilt 

 seems to have aimed at by introducing a great number of terms vs-hich 

 hardly belong at all to a technical glossary, though exceedingly pro- 

 per for an Architectural Dictionary in which real information as well 

 as verbal definition is sought for. It is surely puerile to insert words 

 which every child knows the meaning of, — such as Bedchamber and 

 Cottage. So far too, is Mr. Gwilt from having shown any industry, 

 that he does not appear to have availed himself, as he very easily 

 might have done, of many preceding and even recent Glossaiies. 

 Had he condescended to look at that in Loudon's Encyclopaedia of 

 Cottage and Villa Architecture? 



Among the omissions by Gwilt that have been passed over by your 

 correspondent, tliere is one which will just now be thought a most 

 extraordinary — a positively stupendous one, viz. Credence-Tablk ! 

 Pity! that Sir Herbert Jenner Fust did not think of consulting Gwilt's 

 Encyclopaedia, for he would then have discovered that a Credence- 

 table must be something so very nonsensical that the author was ab- 

 solutely ashamed of mentioning it at all. The same appears to have 

 been the case with regard to the following terms, vvhich together with 

 those specified by vour other correspondent make up a rather formid- 

 able list. — Altar tomb, — Bartizan tower, — Bell turret, — Benetier,— 

 Bird's-eye Perspective, — Buhl, — Clock tower, — Concha, — Encaustic, 

 — Fald-stool, — Gablet, — Gargoyle, — Gateway, — Graining, — Hyperti- 

 thedas, — Isometrical Perspective, — Lettera, — Lift (for raising trays, 

 &c. from kitchen to upper floors),— Louvre, — Orthostyle, Perspective 



Elevation, — Penthouse, — Pinacotheca, — Prie-Dieu, — Postera,— Rid- 



ing-liouse, — Roman Cement, — Sand-dashing,— Satin-wood,— Sgrafitto 



— Still-room, — Stove, — Studio, — Tank, — Tulipwood, — Vertical Bond 

 and Wall-straps. 



On the other hand, among those words which do not require any 

 r«-ia/ explanation, we find " Kitchen" thrust into this Glossary ; yet 

 neither there nor in the body of the work do we obtain from Mr. 

 Gwilt any information at all as to the fitlings-up of Kitchens, and all 

 the various articles of culinary apparatus according to the latest im- 

 provements; to say nothing of various contrivances introduced of late 

 years into domestic offices and household economy, all which matters 

 it is highly important to the practical architect to be conversant with. 

 Moreover in a specific Encyclop<edia of architecture, particularly one 

 in which many matters that do not rightly belong to it, or which might 

 have been left out without occasioning any apparent deficiency, are 

 brought in, — something of the subject of internal decoration, furniture, 

 the ornamental colouring of rooms, &c., would have been by no means 

 supurfluous. It is strange that he should not have been put tip lo 

 treating of matters of the kind by the example of Loudon's Encyclo- 

 paedia; or if he considered them quite infra rf/g, and beneath the 

 attention of an architect, he might at least have told his readers where 

 they could obtain some account of them ; instead of which, the only 

 notice he takes of Loudon's work at all, consists in merely inserting 

 the title of it in the list which he gives of publications on architecture, 

 without a syllable in recommendation of it. In fact that list is by no 

 means so serviceable as it might have been rendered, because it serves 

 as no sort of guide in the selection of an architectural library, unless 

 people can discriminate between valuable and worthless publications 

 by the titles alone ; iind that some of the works inserted in it are any 

 thing but cordially admired by Mr. Gwilt is very certain, those of both 

 Schinkel and Klenze being among them, the two German architects 

 whom he had taken some pains to decry, not very long before. 

 Further in regard to that List, a more industrious or a more liberal 

 bibliographer would have introduced into the "Miscellaneous" section 

 of it some notice of architectural periodicals, both English and foreign : 

 for instance Loudon's " Architectural Magazine," Daly's " Revue 

 Generale, &c.," and Fiirster's " Bauzeitung." But instead of being 

 indicated by Mr. Gwilt, if they are indexed by him at all, it must be 

 in his own private Indix Expungalorim. 



Your's, &c. 



C. Harford. 



ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND. 



Sib — Unusual as it, no doubt, is to express a wish of the kind in 

 this manner, I certainly do very much wish that your Correspondent 

 Dr. Fulton, would supply some information on a subject as to which 

 there now exists a lamentable dearth of it, by giving us some account 

 of what has been done of late years, in architecture at Dublin or else- 

 where. Though the brilliant period adorned by a Gandon may have 

 passed away, I presume that architecture is not wholly extinct in Ire- 

 land ; and further trust that if there are such wretched specimens of 

 it as the "Conciliation Hall," there are also worthier productions, — 

 some in regard to which silence is injustice. 



For all that is to be gathered from English architectural publica- 

 tions, whether Encyclopaedias or others, it would seem that there has 

 been no such place as Ireland during the present century. Yet surely 

 there must have been several buildings not wholly unworthy of notice 

 erected in Dublin itself since Malton published his Views of the 

 principal ones existing at that time. And to his work we are mainly 

 indebted for any knowledge of them — but imperfect and limited 

 knowledge at the best, because nothing more can be understood than 

 what can be made out from the exterior alone, as seen from a certain 

 point of view ; for, unfortunately, Malion's work exhibits no interiors, 

 notwithstanding that he might easily have found many highly inte- 

 resting subjects of that class, — at least if verbal description of them 

 is to be trusted. 



Having ventured thus to call upon him to do so, I hope that Dr. 

 Fulton will now endeavour to contribute what he can on the subject 

 of modern Irish Architecture, and Irish Architects, in doing which he 

 can, if he thinks proper, confine himself strictly to matter-of-fact, 

 without bringing forward his own opinions as to the merits or defects 

 of the respective buildings. 



I remain. Sir, 

 Your's, &c., 



Philo-Hibernicus. 



