1842.] 



THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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The bell, v\hicli was formerly in the roof of the circular nave (although 

 that vas not its original place), has been removed, and hung in a new stone 

 helfrv turret erected over the Newell staircase on the north side. 



THE NEW ROYAL STABLES AND RIDING-HOUSE AT WINDSOR. 



These extensive buildings have just been completed (the sum expended 

 having been brought within the amount of the Parliamentary grant of 

 f 70,000), according to the original designs of the late Sir Jeffrey M'yatville, 

 under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Ashton, his successor. Messrs. 

 Grissell & Peto were the builders employed. 



The buildj(^s (the architectural style of which is in perfect keeping with 

 tliat of the Castle) are on the south side of, and about ITjO yards from, tlie 

 Royal residence. The whole frontage, towards the Home Parle, extends to 

 upwards of 300 feet. The stabling and coach-house department occupies 

 three large quadrangles, quite distinct from each other being divided by 

 high stone walls. ♦ 



Accommodation is alTorded, in the aggregate, for 102 horses (exclusive of 

 13 loose boxes) and 36 carriages. 



In the angles of each quadrangle are extensive forage lofts, constructed 

 with every regard to convenience. Each quadrangle contains extensive sad- 

 dle and harness-rooms, cleaning-rooms, and other appropriate and necessary 

 offices, with water laid on throughout, large coppers for heating water, ex- 

 tensive dung-pits, and other appurtenances. The harness-rooms, which are 

 heated by stoves, are about 20 feet square. The cleaning-rooms are of rather 

 larger dimensions. The coachhouses, which are very lofty, are heated by 

 means of hot air. Some idea may be formed of their dimensions, when it is 

 stated that the extent of room appropriated for each carriage is 8 feet in the 

 width, and 20 feet in lengtli. An apparatus for heating water for the use of 

 the men, and for warming the coach-houses, iXC is attached to each quad- 

 rangle and situated in the basement, with pipes communieatiiig to every part 

 of the building where it will be required. 



The width of each stable, from the back of the manger to the opposite 

 wall, is 22 feet — thus allowing plenty of space for the men behind the heels 

 of the horses. Each of the stables, which are ventilated by means of an 

 admirable contrivance, through an aperture leading to the roof (and which 

 can be opened or closed at pleasure), will be lighted at night by gas. The 

 whole of the flooring is composed of Dutch clinkers. In the centre of each 

 stall are iron gratings, communicating with cross drains which run into the 

 heel drains, under the flooring of Dutch clinkers, and through these, by 

 merely turning a tap at the upper end of the stable, a strong course of water 

 is forced, cleaning every accumulation away from the under drains into the 

 common sewer to the river. 



The poney stalls, the partitions of which are exceedingly massive, and con- 

 structed of highly polished oak, are 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. The stalls 

 (the same material being used for the partitions throughout the stabling de- 

 partment) for the carriage and riding-horses are a little larger. The fronts 

 of the mangers, and also the walls at their backs, extending 4 feet in height, 

 to the top of the hay-racks, are of slate. The front upper edges of the 

 mangers consist of a revolving cast iron roller, about 3 inches in diameter, 

 extending their whole length ; thus offering an insuperable bar to the practice 

 of crib-biting. 



The new riding-school, as has been before observed, divides the upper or 

 northern quadrangle from the centre one. This spacious building is 170 

 feet in length, 52 feet in width, and nearly 40 feet in height. At niglit 

 three splendid gas chandeliers along the centre of the building diffuse a clear 

 and steady light throughout the interior. Over the riding-school are most 

 convenient dormitories for the use of the single men connected with the 

 stables ; these consist of 30 apartments. 



ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL ROYAL. 



This beautiful chapel was re-opened for divine service on Sunday morning, 

 23d ult., after having been closed for some days to enable the workmen to 

 complete the large west window, and another of stained glass in the choir. 

 The following description of the former window will enable the reader to 

 appreciate more justly the alterations : — 



In the year 1774, the Kev. Dr. Lockman, canon of Windsor, collected, from 

 various part! of the chapel, a great namber of detached figures in stained 

 glass. These were placed in the compartments of the great west window, on 

 a ground of plain white glass. The number of figures not being sufficient, 

 however, to fdl the whole of the openings, the glazier ingeniously composed 

 some trelllce patterns, which were formed in colours of the most discordant 

 kind, to fill the remainder. The ramifications of the arched head were occu- 

 pied by plain surfaces, chiefly of glaring orange and purple-stained glass ; 

 yet, with all these violations of good taste, perpetrated at the expense of the 

 then chapter of 6001., there was a certain degree of effect produced, par- 

 ticularly at sunset, which g.ive great brilliancy to the architecture. 



In the new arrangement by Mr. Willcment, the whole of the ancient 

 figures have been repaired, and instead of the crude ground of white glass, 

 on which they were placed, each compartment has a dispered ground of a 

 warm yet quiet tint, with an architectural frame to each, formed by a base. 



columns, and eniiched canopy, corresponding in design with the style of the 

 chapel. Ten ancient figures, and as many entirely new, have superseded the 

 formal and patterns of the glazier. The lowest range of openings being con- 

 siderably higher than the others, that space is now occupied most appro- 

 jiriately by a long label inscribed with the prayer, " God save our gracious 

 Sovereign, and all the Companions of the Most Hon. and Noble Order of the 

 Garter " 



Within the arched head of the window the four principal compartments are 

 filled by the initials, crown, and badges of King Edward III., the founder of 

 Order of the Garter; of King Edv,-ard IV., who began the erection of the 

 present chapel; of King Henry VIII.. who complefcl it; and of Queen 

 Elizabeth, in whose reign so many additions were made to the Castle. The 

 smaller openings are strewn with the Tudor devices on rich grounds of ruby 

 and garter blue ; in the centre, above a sfiulptured panel of the Pvoyal arms, 

 are placed in stained glass the arms of the patron saint, with the initials of 

 Sanctus Georgius ; and above these, in the extreme apex, the sacred mono- 

 gram I. II. S. By tlicse judicious .alterations, the whole surface of the 

 window has become replete wi^the richest tints, suflieiently varied to obviate 

 any monotony, and producin|Brith the greatest fullness of tore, an entire 

 absence of that unseemly gla^\vhieh too often pervades almost all modern 

 attempts in this class of art. The arrangement conduces essentially to 

 develop the great beauty of the stonework — a point most sadly neglected in 

 most cases. 



D!>!-selsliir<\.—The roof of St. Mary's Church, Wareham, having been fjund 

 about two years ago (o be in a very decayed condition, and the accommo- 

 dalion being inconvenient, and the pews cold and damp, the rector and 

 cluirchwarJens had it survtyed by Mr. Donaldson, who ultimately furnished 

 drauinss for rebuilding the liody of the church, providing accommodation 

 for 1000 persons, 600 being devoted to the poor. 'I he to'.ver and chancel, 

 w hich are fine specimens of simple ecclesiastical Gothic, still remain, and the 

 church has been executed in the same style to accord willi them. The new 

 body consists of a nave separated from the lateral aisles Ijv three octagonal 

 piers on each side, surmounted by lofty arches, above which lises the cleres- 

 tory with its ceilings to the height of 40 feet above the pavement of the nave. 

 The church was re-opened for public worship on Michaelmas-day, the Bishop 

 of Salisbury and a numerous body of the c'etgy assisting on the occasion. 

 Some very curious fragments of a very old date, possibly as remote as the 

 Saxon times, were dug up or discovered worked up in the old walls, and have 

 been carefully preserved as memorials of the antiquity of the sacred edifice, 

 width must have been built and rebuilt three or four times. 



Archileclure on the Continent. — In speaking of Cologne Cathedral, the 

 j-llhenieum observes that something of the same spirit of reparation and 

 restoration and completion of ancient monuments, which has set these vast 

 works in progress, is diffusing itself very generally over the Continent. Our 

 readers have learnt how actively this taste for the renewal and perfection of 

 historical monuments has been engaged in France ; and Belgium lias not 

 been behindhand in the work of restoration. The two towers of Sainte-Gu- 

 dule, at Brussels, have been carefully repaired, and all tlie delicate tracery 

 which time had injured has been renewed, stone by stone. The chureli of 

 Notre Dame de Finisterre is surrounded by seafloldings, which announce 

 extensive repairs. So with the light and graceful spire of the Cathedral at 

 Antwerp, " whose 622 steps" it is said, "may now be ascended, and the upper 

 gallery reached, without ihe adventurer fearing to be carried away by the 

 wind, in ci mpany with some decaj ed and tottering pinnacle." In the same 

 structure, M. Geerst is still labouring at the Gothic stalls, which are said to 

 be master-pieees of their kind. At Ghent, the Cathedral of Saint-Bavon is 

 in course (f complete restoration. At Bruges, the churches of Saint Salvador, 

 of Notr.'-Dome, and the chapel of Saint Basil, have been repaired ; anil the 

 venerable Cathedral of Tournai, the most ancient religi ,us m nument in Bel- 

 gium, has, for upwards of a year, been the subject of important works in- 

 tended at once to strengthen it and restore its ancient character. The Ilotel- 

 de-Ville, of Louvain, unequalled for the delicacy of its fretwork and tracery 

 — a gem without rival in llie florid-Gothic style, has also been carefully re- 

 stored — and the Kotel-de-Vil!e of Brus.sels is now in course of restoration. 



St. Martin's Church. — The steeple of this church, which was struck by 

 lightning about three months ago, and suftered such extensive damage as to 

 render it necessary to be taken down, has just been rebuilt, and was on Tues- 

 day, the lOtli ult.. finally completed. The conlract wa? undertaken liy 

 Mr. Hemming, of Regent Street, for the sum of £101)0 . w hich included the 

 taking down of the Old steeple and the building of Ihe new i ne, and wliich 

 sum will be paid by the Phcenix and .Sun insurance- ofliees, by whom the 

 church was insured about four years ago. The ball and vane on the summit 

 have been regilt, and present a very showy appearance. 



BoLOOXA. — Academy of Fine Arts. — The programme has been published by 

 the Academy of Fine Arts for the competition for 1843. We merely give the 

 subject proposed for Architecture. Designs for a Cu.stom-hou.«e on a great 

 scale, for a large city. Besides the elevaiions of the building, lliere must be 

 given, on a larger scale, separate drawings of the princii al parts, and a clear 

 account of the artist's viiws as to the disposition of the whole. 



Rentals of Metropolitan Commissioners of Setcers, North of the Thames. — West- 

 minstcr, &'c., commission, 4:2,788,1!I0 ; 'llolLorn and lln.,l)iirv, £1.316,013; 

 Tower Hamlets. £888,596; Citv of London. 792.S04; Poplar, £78.411 ; St. 

 Katharine's, £12,964. Total, £5,877.078. The city of London having sent 

 in no return, the above amount is taken frtm their return to the llou.se of 

 Commons in August 1834. 



BrieKs lighter than U'oter.—Some bricks m-.dc of a clay of a porlicii of the 

 soil of Berlin, which, on acctunt of the quantity of fossil intiisoria contained 

 in it, will float in water. 



