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There 13 only one column, either ancient or modern, in Europe, that will 

 exceed the entire height of the Brock Monument, — that known as " The Monu- 

 ment," erected in London by Sir Christopher Wren, in commemoration of the great 

 fire of 1666. 



ST. ANDREWS CHURCH, HAMILTON. 



This building, now erecting from the design of William Thomas, Esq., Ar- 

 chitect, was commenced in 185-1. The design is in the early decorated style of 

 English Gothic Architecture, and is being constructed wholly of stone. The tower 

 is of what is styled bush hammered and rubbed work, and the flanks and west 

 end walling of rock work. The windows in the flank walls are three lights, and 

 those in the end recess of four lights, each of rich and varied tracery. They will 

 be glazed with tinted glass in ornamental quarries, arranged in geometrical figures. 

 The roof is open to the apex, with arched principals having tracery points in the 

 compartments, and with ceiling ribs and boarded pannels. 



The tower, with double buttresses at the angles, already presents a bold and 

 massive effect. The spire, with clustering pinnacles at the tower parapet, will be 

 of cut-stone, and from its details, as shown in a beautifully executed chromo-litho- 

 graphic view which has been forwarded to us, it will have a very striking appear- 

 ance when completed. Its only fault is, that from the richness of the tower and 

 spire the body of the building looks plain by the contrast. The entire height 

 will be one hundred and eighty-five feet, and the whole will be completed this 

 summer. It is worthy of special note that this will, we believe, be the first stone 

 spire erected in Upper Canada. The total expenditure on this handsome and 

 substantial edifice will amount to about eleven thousand pounds. 



Christ's church, Hamilton. 



In the year 1S53 it was proposed to take down the old dilapidated building of 

 Christ's Church, and erect a new one in the pointed style of Architecture, 

 which has of late years come so much into favour, and to complete it with nave 

 and side aisles. The east end, including the chancel and two compartments of 

 the body of the Church, was completed in accordance with the new scheme in 

 1854. The new nave thus commenced, measures forty feet in width, and, in- 

 cluding the side aisles, seventy-five feet in clear width. The style adopted is the 

 early decorated ; the whole of the exterior being executed in cut-stone. The 

 ceiling of the nave is arched and groined with moulded ribs springing from very 

 rich corbels, and with rich bosses at the intersections. The height of the nave is 

 tixty feet. The clerestory windows are of the trefoil design, adopted as emblem- 

 atical of the Trinity, and are glazed with stained glass. The interior of the Church 

 is also finished in colours, and a very handsome chancel window of seven lights 

 with rich tracery is filled with stained glass, executed by Messrs. Ballantine & 

 Allan, of Edinburgh, — the same Glass Painters by whom the colored windows of 

 the House of Lords were executed, from designs by Pugin. The whole of the ex- 

 terior is to be completed in cut-stone, and the plan includes a tower and spire at the 

 west end two hundred and twenty-five feet in height, and in a style corresponding 

 with the richness of the parts already finished. 



The estimated cost of the whole when completed is about £25,000. The Ar- 

 chitect, Mr. Thomas, of Toronto, we understand has received instructions to re- 

 new operations ; and it is expected that this Church will make some further pro- 

 gress towards completion during the present year. 



