tHE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[January, 



the Grecian Doric style, and U the design of Mr. Thomas Fish Taylor, 

 Architect. The width of frontage to the street is about 40 feet, and below 

 the level of footpath are two cellar storeys, and above it four storeys. 



The basement, up to the ground floor window sills, is of large blocks of 

 \berdeen granite, which from its hardness will resist any of those casu- 

 alties which so frequently disfigure basements of our usual soft stone. 

 The remaining height of the ground floor is built of faced Halifax stone, 

 having segment headed windows and doorways. Above this floor are two 

 pilasters and four three-quarter columns, fluted two-thirds down, and two 

 stories in height, with suitable capitals. The windows are in the recesses 

 formed by the columns and pilasters. The architrave, frieze, and cornice 

 break round with the columns, and the frieze is enriched with a Grecian 

 fret deeply cut, and presenting a varied play of light and shade. Upon 

 this cornice and over each column stand bold double pilasters of natural 

 faced wallstone, with tooled bases and caps ; on these, and on cantilivers 

 between them, is the horizontal part of the pediment. The pediment spans 

 the entire width, and would have had a much better efl-ect, if more boldness 

 of projection could have been obtained laterally: this, I suppose, is pre- 

 vented from a fear of encroaching on a neighbour's territory. It is said 

 that the original designs were for a fire-proof building, and it seems a pity 

 that a building intended for the stowage of sucb combustible materials, 

 and in the design and erection of which such pains and expense have been 

 gone to (though I understand the whole will not exceed 2,400i.) should not 

 have been built on the fire-proof principle. It seems doubtful policy to 

 run the risk of total destruction, if a fire should occur, for the sake of 

 saving 20Ui. or so, in original outlay ;— as the warehouse is now built (with 

 wooden trussed beams, joists and boards), if a fire took place the whole 

 would, ten chances to one, be destroyed; if built fire-proof, the chances 

 are that one storey only would be burnt. 



A large warehouse, of four storeys besides the cellar, has been built for 

 Mr. Carver, in Portland-street, from designs by Mr. Uonnisoo. It is of 

 brick, with stone basement, doorways, window sills, and cornice, and is of 

 plain and substantial construction. The same Architect has another large 

 warehouse in progress for Mr. Behrens, of five storeys and cellar. The 

 first storey is externally of tooled stonework, and has coupled pilasters 

 between the windows, and a dentelled cornice runs below the second floor 

 windows. A stone cornice resting on corbels surmounts the whole. 



Messrs. R. H. Greg and Co. are having a warehouse built in Tib-street, 

 from designs by Mr. M-hittaker,and Messrs. Taylor and AViUiams are the 

 builders. The basement is externally of vermiculated stonework. The 

 first storey is of good tooled ashlar, with a dentelled cornice. The upper 

 part of the warehouse will be of best brick with handsome stone quoins, 

 and all the windows will have moulded stone architraves. It is intended 

 to place an elaborate stone cornice at the top. The whole is fireproof and 

 of good strength, and I understand that the cost cannot be less than 8,000i. 

 Mr Lane, the Architect, is at the present time employed in entirely re- 

 modelling the old " Queen's Theatre," in Spring Gardens, and from what I 

 can learn of the alterations it seems likely that a most convenient and 

 beautiful interior will be the result. The walls of the building have been 

 underset, the stage and pit lowered five or six feet below the original level, 

 the pit extended under the boxes, and the stage enlarged. It is intended 

 to erect a new proscenium, and to alter the whole decorative character of 

 the house Mr. Bellhouse's workmen are now busily proceeding with the 

 alterations, and it ii intended that all shall be ready for an opening in 



March next. ^ , , 



Scliools. 



The Manchester Commercial .Schools are now nearly finished, and 

 are to be opened in January next. They have been built under the 

 auspices of the Church Education Society, from the designs of Messrs. 

 Holden, Architects, on a plot of ground in the Stretford New Road. The 

 building is three storeys high, and in the Tudor style of architecture. The 

 front is of stone, and the first story has two entrance doorways, with three 

 windows between them, the centre one a triplet, and the others double 

 windows, with flat or four-centred arches ; the second story has an oriel 

 window with enriched panneling above and below, and two smaller windows 

 with hood mouldings on each side of it; the upper storey has a large 

 window in Uie centre, with a depressed four-centred arch, and rich tracery 

 in the head, and two smaller windows with hood mouldings on each side. 

 The ground floor contains the assistant-master's offices, porter's residence, 

 &c., and also a covered playground, about 42 feet by 30 feet, comrauui- 

 .aling with a spacious play-yard. The second floor is set apart as four 



class-rooms, a large hall, and a book and model room. The whole of the 

 upper floor will be occupied as the general school room, 55 feet by 42 feet, 

 and as the roof is open to the rafters the room is an airy one. In these 

 schools a good church and commercial education will be afforded to the 

 youtli of the middle classes upon reasonable terms. 



The Roby Day and Sunday Schools, for children of the independent 

 denomination, situate in Aytoun-street, were built a short time ago from 

 designs by Mr. A. W. Mills, Architect. The building is in the Elizabethan 

 style, and of best brick and stone. Considerable skill is displayed in the 

 arrangement for supporting the building so as not to interfere with the 

 burial ground over which it is erected ; the front wall goes down to good 

 brick foundations, but the back part is carried on iron pillars and beams. 

 There are three gales into the yard through the lower part of the front wall, 

 and also other smaller arches which are filled in with ornamental iron- 

 work. Above are three projecting oriel windows of two storeys; the front 

 is surmounted by ornamental gables. The internal arrangements are 

 spacious and well ventilated. 



Roman Catholic Church, Salford. 

 The largest ecclesiastical building in the neighbourhood of Manchester 

 at this time in progress, is the edifice being built by the Romanists in 

 Chapel-street, Salford, from designs by Messrs. Hadfield and Weightman, 

 of Sheffield. The general plan is cruciform, with a central tower and 

 lofty spire. The cardinal points have not been regarded in the placing of 

 the building, as the chancel is towards the north. On the south side of the 

 tower projects the nave, which is divided into four bays, and has a lofty 

 clerestory. The principal entrance doorway is at the end of the nave. 

 On the north side are the choir and chancel, which are now intended to 

 be carried out about the same length as the nave. The original desigQ 

 showed it projecting only one bay beyond the tower, but a school-house has 

 been taken down to allow of the extension. The transeptal chapel is on 

 the western side of the tower, and will be lighted by a large wheel window ; 

 there will be an entrance to the chapel from the outside, and the vestry 

 adjoins it. The transept on the east of the tower has a central entrance 

 doorway. The roof of the choir will be groined iu wood, and that of the 

 nave framed in square panels, and painted in light colours by Bulmer. 

 Sticklers for orthodoxy and correct imitation will discover little to cavil 

 at in the details of the work, such as tracery of windows, arch mouldings, 

 &c.; they are generally copied from Howden church, Yorkshire, or from 

 contemporaneous structures ; indeed the principle of imitation seems to 

 have been carried too exactly throughout, for the most elaborate mouldings 

 of that exquisitely delicate period of architecture the early decorated, are 

 given in places where a simplification of them would have produced aa 

 adequate effect; if this be an error, however, it is on the right side. 

 Newark furnishes a model for the spire, Howden for the nave, and Selby 

 for the chancel ; indeed the last will be a counterpart of its prototype, even 

 to the canopied niches over the columns. 



The Irish Presbyterians are now erecting a place of worship, session- 

 house, schools, &:c., in New Bridge-street, Strangeways, from designs 

 which are highly creditable to;the architects, Messrs. Travis and Mangnall. 

 The style selected is the Gothic, which prevailed in England during the 

 reign of Henry VI. There will be a tower 80 feet in height, next to the 

 street, which will be flanked by bold diagonal buttresses ; these will 

 diminish in size towards the top, and will finish at the battlements with 

 crocketted pinnacles above. The central entrance doorway will have 

 bold moulded jambs, and a label finishing upon carved heads ; above 

 this doorway will be a large window with perpendicular tracery and 

 moulded jambs and labels; similar windows will be situated at each 

 side of the tower on the front face of the building, and in the back will bea 

 four-light perpendicular window. There will be two side entrances near 

 the tower end, having square-headed doorways with labels, &c. The 

 sidesof the building will be divided by massive buttresses into five bays 

 each, and the windows between them will be enriched with tracery and 

 label's terminating on grotesque heads and shields, and will have a transom 

 in the middle on account of their height. The roof will be open-timbered, 

 and in one span of 47 feet. At the back of the chapel are buildings to 

 be used as session-house, schools, and residence for the minister, the whole 

 of which are built in the style of the domestic buildings of the period. 

 Mansion*. 

 A mansion in the Italian style for Mr. Percival, situated near Ksrsal 

 Moor, from designs by Messrs. Dickson and Brakespeare, is in a forward 

 state ' There are two good specimens of gentlemen's residences nearly 

 ready for occupation in Victoria Park ; one for Mr. Critchley, designed by 



