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CIVIL liNGlNEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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on the second part of Ducliayla's proof of the parallelogram of 

 forces— vvhiili consists in onjiliing it. On the whole, we think we 

 hcive fnll.v jnstitied onr opinion of Mr. Heather's merits as an author. 

 We think it possible, as we have observed before, that it is to Mr. 

 Heathei's inability in writing-not thinking— that his deficiencies 

 are dne ;— to whatever c;;use, however, they be ;issigned, we shall 

 conclude by solemnly declaring, in okl-lady-phryseology, that— A 

 Treatise on Mechariics, by J. F. Heather, B.A., is a very improper 

 work to put into the hands of young persons. 



The Gnat Brilain, ^llantic Steam-ship. Twenty-five folios of 



Engravings. London: John Weale, 18-J7. 



Mr. Weale has at length produced this long-promised work, but not 

 in the state he at first intimated : bis reasons lor not doing so he gives 

 in his preliminary advertisement. "The author," he says, "had un- 

 dertaken to provide accurate drawings, with a descriptive text, which 

 lie has totally disreganled, although repeatedly urged, during a period 

 of two years." For our own part, we are at a loss to know who has 

 the right to be called the author, or who the engineer of this vessel. 

 Perhaps Mr. Weale can hereafter explain, — or we may be induced to 

 say a word hereafter. 



The plates are got up in Mr. Weale's usual good style, and possess 

 sufficient interest to make it a work desir.ible lor the engineer. We 

 have views of the engines, the boilers, the screw, and some portions 

 of the iron-work of the vessel, showing the joinings of the iron ribs 

 and plates. 



CHAPEL OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 



The following account of the recent restorations in this beautiful edifice 

 is given by a correspondent of the Athevt£HiniVi\i\\ the subscription " D, S." 

 The fellows of the College have done wisely in entrusting the restorations — 

 not to a mere raason — but a very competent architect (Mr. Salvin), and it is 

 to be hoped that no alteration will be made in the arrangements: — 



" It is now more than a twelvemonth since I transmitted to you an ac- 

 count of the discoveries which have been made, during the last year or two, 

 in llie Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge; in tlie progress of which so 

 much of the beautiful architecture of the ancient Churcli of the Nuns of 

 St. Rhadegund, which had been concealed for the last 350 years, has been 

 once more exposed to the admiring e_\cs of the lovers of ancient Art. Since 

 tliat time, furtlier research has brought more of tlie original features of the 

 cliurch to light ; so that, at the present time, sufficient data have been ob- 

 tained from vihich to determine tlie plan, and in great measure the architec- 

 tural character, of the entire liuilding as it stood before Bishop Alcock 

 (thereby setting an example followed, a few years later, by Wolse;- at St. 

 Fridiswides, Oxford) pared off the excrescences to adapt it to the more 

 nioderate requirements of a College chapel. This interesting work has been 

 dune, with his usual ability, by Piofessor Willis. It is said of Cuvier that, 

 ' give him a single bnne, and lie would reconstruct the skeleton;' and those 

 who have heard or read the Professor's Lectures on the Cathedrals of Can- 

 terbury and Winchester will at once have discerned the same talent in him. 

 Give him a few feet of original walling here — a broken shaft there — the 

 iragraent of a base or a bit of a string-course in some out of the way cor- 

 ner, where no eye less keen-sighted tliau his would have discovered it, — and 

 in due time he will show you what the whole building must have been. The 

 results of his investigations in the present instance have been laid belore the 

 Cambridge \ntiquarian Society, — and will appear as one of the numbers of 

 tbeir Transactions. Meanwhile, I may state that this, which till within the 

 last two years seemed to be a plain cross church without aisles or chapels, 

 now proves to have been originally a spacious and magnilicent edifice — au 

 example of the purest early English style. The nave, which is now short 

 and perfectly plain, is shown to have had aisles, the piers and arches of 

 which were l<uiU up into the present walls, and are now partially uncovered ; 

 and to have extended muili further westward, into the Master's lodge — one 

 of the piers being actually discovered in situ in Dr. French's oven. The 

 transepts had aisles or chapels ojieniiig eastward ; and the gable wall of the 

 northern traiisr|)t was lighted by a large round-headed triplet, which has 

 heen blocked liy the College buildings abutting against it. On either side 

 ut the choir, were two arches opening into aisles or chapels ; and the east 

 wall was pierced by a triplet ot lancet windows with black pannels between. 

 The shattered remains of the original architecture are of such exquisite 

 beauty, that even bad Bishop Alcock's alterations been in the purest taste of 

 his day we could scarcely have forgiven him the act of mutilation ; but when 

 we glance at the meagre, low-browed windows, flattened ceilings, and othe,' 

 iiielegancies perpetrated by him, it must be admitted that the good prelate 

 was almost as much devoid of taste as any whitewashing churchwarden of 

 the last filty years. Of course, it is vain to hope to restore all the fallen 

 glories of the church of St. Rhadegund. We caunot expect that the Master 



should give up his house and his oven to reconstruct the nave — useless as it 

 would be for the purposes of the chapel of a by no means large college; 

 nor, however gladly we should watch the restoration of so interesting an 

 arcbilectiiral monument, can we desire it. fctill.itis cheering to see that 

 what is practical)le is being done, and that more is in contemphition. The 

 eastern aisle of the northern transept and the northern aisle of the choir 

 have been rebuilt under Mr. Salvin's directions ; and the arches opening 

 into them — which were discovered built up in the wall with scarcely a 

 moulding injured or a point of the dog's-tooth broken — carefully restored. 

 More beautitul early English arches than those in the clicir it would be hard 

 to discover ; and the pier supporting them is a most graceful combination of 

 four cylinders, contrasting very remaikaldy with the sturdy little dwarf co- 

 lumn brought to light in the transept. When -lie no less beautiful arches 

 on the south shall he also opened (a work which I trust is only deferred for 

 a short time), the present poor flat c'eiling be replaced by the original high- 

 pitched roof, the wiry ludor tracing of the east window make room for the 

 triple lancet — both of v\hich latter alterations will, it is understood, take 

 place ill the course of the ensuing summer — and the paltiy fittings of 

 painted deal shall have given way to the rich oak stalls which are already 

 being carved after the original model (one having been, fortunately, pre- 

 served in the Lodge when the chapel was ' repaired and beantihed' in the 

 dreaiy last century), — 1 know not where we shall he able to find a more 

 exquisite example of the pure and giaceful architecture of the thirteenth 

 century, or a college chapel (with the exception of King's as beyond all 

 comparison) more beautitul and interesting. By the munificence of the 

 Master, Dr. French, the four lancets to the north wdl be filled with stained 

 glass by Wailes.^and the eastern lancets will be similarly decorated. The 

 glass in the present east window will he removed to the large window in 

 the south transept, which is well calculated to receive it. It is also gratify- 

 ing to be able to state that the spiiit of improvement has extended from the 

 fabric to the services of the chapel : an individual member of the College 

 having offered to present an organ, and to train and endow a choir, which 

 will be accommodated in the aisle recently constructed. The same generous 

 benefactor has presented the college with a statue of Bishop Alcock, — which 

 now tills a niche in the tower over the great gateway. The improvement, 

 both in effect and in meaning, is immense. I trust that the college will 

 carry on the good work of restoration by banishing the sash windows and 

 replacing the mullions, at least in the tower windows, if not in the whole 

 front. It is too much to hope for the restoration of the original propor- 

 tions of the facade by the removal of the upper story ; — which, as may be 

 seen from Loggan's View, is a later addition, sadly interfering witli the dig- 

 nity of the tower gateway. Much, however, has been effected in a most 

 praiseworthy manner ; and it is to be hoped that those to whom their col- 

 lege is an oliject of aftectionate pride will come forward to aid iu the com- 

 pletion of a work so interesting as the restoration to its original dignity and 

 beauty of the chapel in which Cranmer and Pearson once worshipped." 



CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 



At the Archanlog'ual Institute, March 5, Prof. Willis delivered a lec- 

 ture " On tlie Vvnteniual BuiUlinns attaclted to the tutliedral ut Canttr- 

 burij," wlieu that beautiful edifice was the church of the Benedictine nio- 

 uasiery there. He bad given, he said, to the Cathedral, on another occa- 

 sion, au entirely separate examiuaiion ; and it was not bis iutentiun to 

 allude to It at all, but he should couliue the observations which be had to 

 Oder to the remains of the conventual buildiugs. These were interesting, 

 though, unfortunately, concealed, for the most part, lu the gardens and pri- 

 vate apartments of the canons ; but every opportunity had been afl'orded 

 bim for making a careful survey of what remained. The result of bis ex- 

 amiuulion wasuuvv before them ; and, though iutereslinn in itself, he should 

 not have engaged the atteuliou of the uiecliug on this occasion, but for the 

 curious elucKialiou which the existing remains receive from an ancient 

 drawiug iu a Psalter pieserved in Trinity College, Cambridge. This 

 drawing was engraved, but not very well engraved, in the second volume 

 of the " Vetusla aiouumenia." It has hitherto gone without a name (,lor 

 uoue IS given) ; but the result of his researches would show that it was 

 meaut tor the Beuedictine monastery at Cauterburj, and made some time 

 between the death of Auselni and the tire described by Cervase the Monk, 

 in 1174. Of this drawing he bad made an enlarged and accurate copy ; 

 and his object was, to show the extreme liUclity ot the drawing and the in- 

 teresting illustraiiou which it receives from the scatiered ruins that still 

 remaiu. It would be observed, that the drawiug in the Psalter was a kind 

 of bird's-eje view ; and that li.e monk by whom it was made was no great 

 master of the rules of perspective— for some of the buildings are drawn 

 upou their heads, and others upon their sides ; but still, it was easy to uii- 

 dersland it. Here, in the monk's drawing, is the church of the monastery ; 

 —here the outer walls uud principal eulrauces;- here the chapter-house, 

 cloisters, retectory, dormitory, uecessariuni, kitchen, brew-house, bake- 

 house, granary and infirmary ;— here the prior's house, the apartments of 

 the guests, the hall or relectorj lor guests, the cemetery aud the castelluni 

 aqua;, — by far the most curious part of the whole drawing, because it in- 

 forms us of the ingenious and admirable coutrivances of the monks for the 

 iboruugli supply of the whole monastery with water. The Moriuan gate- 



