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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[August, 



Jl Map of the Geology, Mineralogy, Src, of the British Isles and 

 fart of France. By J. A Knipe. 



The importance of geology, as a practical science, in connexion 

 with Agriculture and Engineering, is now too well appreciated to 

 require any comment; and the value of any accession to our informa- 

 tion on this suhject, is eqaally obvious. It is with these views that 

 we now recommend to the patrouage of our readers the production of 

 Mr. Knipe, who has exhibited a degree of labour and research, well 

 worthy of encouragement. He has undertaken to describe the geo- 

 logy, mineralogy, internal communications, harbours and ports of Eng- 

 land, and the adjacent countries, together with a part of France, 

 availing himself of the most recent information, and the investiga- 

 tions of the most eminent men of science. Thus each part of the 

 map is laid down from the researches of those geologists who have 

 most distinguished themselves in the examination of particu'ar dis- 

 tricts, exhibiting their minute observations, and illustrated by nume- 

 rous sections. For each part the authorities are given, and an ex- 

 planatory index is added, referring to the most approved classifications 

 and nomenclature, in English, French and German; in fact, the most 

 minute details are to be found in this map which have not appeared 

 in any other: the size is 5 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 4 inches; we should 

 observe that all the railways and canals are shown, the clination of 

 the strata, heights of mountains, mines, levels, &c. 



A Series of Diagrams, under the superintendence of the Society for 

 the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Chapman and Hall. Part 7. 



This number contains the vertical section of a saw frame, eleva- 

 tion of shears for cutting iron, and the details of an eight day clock. 

 Thus the conductors are realizing a most important desideratum, the 

 publication of a popular series of working drawings of machines, af- 

 fording instructions at the same time to the workman and draughtsman. 

 We are pleased too to see that a small work on mechanics is to be 

 published to accompany the diagrams. We can fairly say that a 

 series of greater importance to the working man has rarely been pub- 

 lished. We should observe that one of the advantages which this 

 work possesses, is, that it will enable classes to be formed in the pro- 

 vincial mechanics' institutions for the study of mechanical drawing, 

 an object for which many working men are chiefly induced to become 

 members of such societies. 



Photogenic Manipulations. By Geokck Thomas Fisher, Jun. 

 London: (ieorge Knight and Sons, 1813. 



This is one of the most comprehensive of the many little treatises 

 which have been published on the manipulation of the new arts of 

 design. Coming from the hands of the Messrs. Knight, well known 

 for the ittention they have paid to practical science, shows that this 

 tract has been carefully compiled. It takes up the subject in all 

 its branches, including Calotype, Chrysotype, Cyanotype, Photogra- 

 phy, Ferrotype, Anthotype, Daguerreotype and Thermography. 



/';■. British and Foreign Traveller's Guide. Sherwood & Co. 



This little work, which appears to have been compiled with great 

 <;are, is of the highest value to the traveller, who, indeed, ought not 

 to be without a copy; it gives the times of starting, the fares, and 

 route of all tin- English and Continental railways, and steam vessels, 

 besides some highly useful and necessary information as to exchanges, 

 and the value of foreign measures and money. 



MEW CHURCH— STRETFORD NEW ROAD, MANCHESTER. 



This beautiful church was designed by Messrs. Scott and Moffatt of 

 London. It is built in the early English style of architecture, which 

 prevailed in this country during the reign of Henry III. To give 

 any thing like a perfect description of the building in a limited com- 

 pass would be impossible; I shall, therefore, content myself with a 

 description of its most prominent features. The church is cruciform 

 in plan, and is composed of nave, ailes, transepts, and apsis or chancel, 

 and a tower at the west end. The dimensions are as follows: — length 

 of nave 65 feet, breadth of transepts 21 feet, and length of chancel 

 17 feet. The total interna] length, including the thickness of the 



chancel arch, 108 feet. Length of transepts 68 feet, breadth of nave 

 24 feet, breadth of ailes 11 feet 10 inches, diameter of the pillars 

 2 feet 2 inches ; total internal breadth 52 feet, height of pillars 15 

 feet 4 inches. There are four arches on each side of the nave, struck 

 from centres at the extremities of the base of an equilateml triangle. 

 The height of the nave, including pillars, arches, and clerestory 40 

 feet, and the total height up to the ridge of the roof 58 feet. There 

 are no galleries, except a small one at the west end of the nave, the 

 greater portion of which is in the tower ; and the front forms a semi- 

 octagon, perforated with small trefoil headed arches, which are sup- 

 ported on small pillars, having base mouldings and capitals: there are 

 stone corbels left on the pillars at the west end for the support of the 

 breast beam of a larger gallery, to extend the whole breadth of the 

 nave and ailes ; but it is to be hoped that such a gallery will never be 

 built, as it would totally spoil the internal effect of that end of the 

 church. The body of the church is fitted up with open stalls or 

 benches, and it is sincerely hoped that they will always remain open, 

 for pew* doors would effectually spoil the architectural effect of the 

 interior of the church. 



In describing the exterior of the church, the tower first claims at- 

 tention ; it is composed of five stages or stories: that on the ground 

 floor forms the west entrance into the church, through a noble and 

 majestic doorway, of good proportions. Its jambs are enriched with 

 small pillars and hollow mouldings; the head consists of a pointed 

 arch, composed of several rich mouldings ; the whole being crowned 

 with a good bold label moidd. The next stage forms the organ gal- 

 lery, which is lighted by a lofty lancet window of one light, having on 

 each side a lancet panel, so managed as not to convey the least idea 

 ol a blank window, and the whole enriched with small pillars. In the 

 next stage, the walls are perforated with quatrefoils of most beautiful 

 design, and executed in a masterly manner. The next stage forms 

 the ringers' chamber, and being similar to the second, will not need 

 any further description. The fifth stage forms the bell-chamber, and 

 is most beautifully designed; the windows are of two lights under 

 one arch, the head of which is filled in with a foliated circle of four 

 cusps. The corners of the tower are flanked with octagonal turrets, 

 live heights of which are disengaged; and two faces of each turret 

 are ;igain flanked by a buttress rising three stages up the tower. The 

 turrets finally terminate in very richly composed pinnacles, which are 

 also octagunal in plan, and have small detached pillars at the angles 

 supporting small arches, the points of which die under the drip of the 

 pinnacle. Each pinnacle is crowned with a finial, and further enriched 

 by a rib at each angle. The walls of the tower are crowned with an 

 unbroken parapet, the breast resting on small trefoil headed arches, 

 a i the water table supported on small corbels. Viewing the tower 

 ..< a whole, whether by itself or in connexion with the rest ol the 

 building, it is certainly one of the finest towers of its class in Great 

 Britain, ancient or modern. Yet it lias one fault, whether seen in ele- 

 vation or perspective, viz., that the pinnacles are considerably too 

 large. 



The next thing to be noticed, is the porch on the north side, stand- 

 ing out from the west bay of the north aile ; the outer arch is very 

 highly enriched with a variety of beautiful mouldings, and two rows 

 of what is called the dog-toothed ornament; there are three small 

 pillars to each jamb, with base mouldings and enriched capitals. The 

 arch is surrounded with a label, the inner sweep of which is enriched 

 with the dog-tooth ornament, of a much smaller size than those just 

 mentioned. The corners of the porch arc flanked with handsome 

 buttresses, terminated with rich canopies. The gable of the porch is 

 surmounted with a beautiful cross; the ceiling consists of stone 

 groined arches, with very beautiful ribs at the angles. The next por- 

 tion of this side of the church claiming attention, is the north transept, 

 the front of which is perforated with two lancet windows coupled 

 together, the spaces between them and the corner buttresses being 

 filled in with narrow lofty panels, and the heads of both windows and 

 panels form an unbroken series of four arches, crowned with labels, 

 and resting on beautiful small pillars. Above these arches is a wheel 

 window, divided into six compartments, by radiating pillars diverging 

 from the centre. On the point of the gable above this window, is 

 fixed a very handsome cross, enriched with a crown of thorns. The 

 angles of the transept are flanked with buttresses, and crowned with 

 octagonal pinnacles, similar in design to those on the tower. The 

 chancel forms in plan five sides of an octagon, with a buttress at each 

 angle. Connected with the south bay of the chancel is a small but 

 handsome vestry, with an outer door on the south side, and two small 

 trefoil headed windows on the east. There are two inner doors, one 

 open ng into the south transept and the other into the chancel. There 

 is nothing in the south side of the church which requires particular 

 description; all the windows, both of ailes and clerestory, are coupled 

 I lancets, two to each bay: the chancel windows are of one light. The 



