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rooms, etc. It is approached in front from a porch 
15 ft. by 14 ft., through which carriages may drive. 
The chapel is 50 ft. by 30 ft., with a height of 
22 feet to the underside of the tie-beams and 34 
feet to ridge plate. The walls arc 20 inches thick. 
Opsite the chancel is the hydraulic apparatus 
and elevator upon which the caskets are placed dur- 
ing the time service is being held, after which they 
are lowered into the receiving room below. 
The conservatory, 18 ft. by 15 ft., is provided with 
stepped benches all round to a height of 10 feet; 
it is built of iron and glass. The height of the 
chancel is 20 feet, and the ceiling is heavily moulded 
in oak panels. 
The chapel is supplied with fresh air by means of 
8 hit-and-miss iron inlets. The ventilation is by 
means of two moulded brick bulls-eye ventilator 
openings in which are inserted iron gratings, 25 
feet above the floor, one at each end of chapel. 
These are connected to 12 in by 9 in. air shafts in 
the brick work. 
The tower is 55 feet in height to the top of 
walls, 75 feet high to bottom of iron finial, which 
is 7 feet in height. The tower is lighted by win- 
dows, three on first floor, and 16 smaller ones on 
top floor or belfry. The roof has four ornamental 
gothic louvre windows, one on each side. 
The roof of chapel is heavily moulded oak, the 
principals being alternately coved down the wall 
from tie beams and stopped on stone moulded and 
projecting base stones. The roof is open and queen 
post type, the under side of spans being panelled 
and moulded the whole area of roof. Its seating 
capacity is 150. The style of architecture is Gothic. 
The roof will be covered with square tiles fin- 
ished with ornamental tile ridging. 
All sewers are properly trapped and ventilated 
by pipes carried up tower. 
The foundations of all the walls throughout 
the structure are laid on a bed of Portland cement 
concrete 3 feet thick. 
The granite material, purchased and delivered 
in the “rough,” is worked at the site to full-sized 
detail drawings, as the building proceeds. 
The cost for the whole of the works is estimated 
at ;?5o,ooo. 
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