THE NEW LABORATORIES AT WISLEY. 
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bricks, with which also the chimney-stacks are faced ; above the plinth 
the walls are treated with oak half -timbering, filled in with rough 
plastering. The roof is covered with old tiles collected from various 
parts of the country. 
All the window frames are of oak, with metal casements and leaded 
glazing. The entrance doors are also of oak, studded with wrought- 
iron nails and hung on armour-bright wrought-iron hinges, with furni- 
ture to match. 
The old Botany Laboratory is incorporated in the new building ; 
and, in order to provide accommodation for a caretaker, the roof of 
the old Laboratory has been raised, and gables have been added 
on each side. 
On the Garden front is a stone-paved terrace, following the levels 
of the ground floors of the building. The Terrace is terminated at 
the north end by a high wall of bricks similar to those facing the main 
building. 
The Front Entrance opens into a porch having an oak dado of 
vertical moulded boarding and an oak-panelled ceiling. Between 
the Porch and Hall is an oak glazed screen with a door in the centre 
opening into the Hall. The Hall is carried up the full height of ground 
and first floors, and has at the east end a gallery at first-floor level. 
There is an oak-panelled dado to the lower portions of walls (which is 
also carried round the Staircase Hall) , above which the walls are treated 
with plaster finished to a granulated surface and left the natural 
plaster colour. The ceiling is divided into three bays by heavy 
moulded oak beams supporting smaller oak beams, filled in between 
with plaster similar to that on walls. 
On the north side of the Hall is the main Staircase, which is of oak, 
the design being of a Jacobean character, as is also the design of the 
oak gallery front above the Hall. 
The windows of Hall, Gallery, and Staircase are glazed with old 
Dutch glass, and into some of the lights stained-glass panels have been 
introduced. The Society's crest is represented in stained glass in 
the centre upper light of the hall window, and in the gallery window 
are small designs representing the Seasons ; in the upper lights of the 
staircase window are decorative circular panels representing the Signs 
of the Zodiac, while in the centre lower light of this window is a larger 
design representing Nature. 
The stained glass is the work of Mr. Herbert Bryans. 
The walls and ceilings of the corridors are plastered in a manner 
similar to those in the Hall. The ground-floor corridor has a barrel 
ceiling. With the exception of the joinery already described and 
that in the Director's Room, which is in oak, the joinery generally, such 
as doors, skirtings, cupboards, bookcases, seats in the Lecture Room 
and Laboratory fittings, are all made in whitewood left clean, the doors 
on the corridor side only having been stained a dark grey tint, and the 
kirtings and picture rail in the corridors treated in a similar manner. 
The building is heated throughout by means of hot- water radiators. 
