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ing on a country site of Christ’s Hospital Schools, also gained by Mr Webb (in collaboration with Mr Ingress Bell), by a design which, in its arrangement of schoolhouses in detached blocks (Fig. 12), but in a symmetrical grouping, opened up a new idea in public school planning, and struck a blow at the picturesque but insanitary quadrangle system. Among notable public buildings of the period ought to be mentioned Mr Norman Shaw’s New Scotland Yard, built in a style neither classic nor Gothic, but par-

taking of the elements of both (Figs. 13 and 14, see Plate); a work which has perhaps been a little over-praised, just as it has been very superficially condemned, but which is a remarkable example of novel and picturesque design, though most of the details, taken separately, are imitative. In recent years there has been a great movement or building town halls; towns rather vying with each other in this way. Of late nearly all of these have been carried

Fig. 19.—City Bank, Ludgate Hill. (Collcutt.) out in some variety of free classic. Among the more im- and most carefully designed of recent buildings in portant in point of scale is that of Sheffield, by Mr Mount- Great Britain. ford (Fig. 15); among smaller ones, those of Oxford, by The various new buildings erected in connexion with Mr Hare (Fig. 16), and Colchester, by Mr Belcher, are the University of Oxford, those by Mr T. G. Jackson particularly good examples of recent architecture of this especially, form an important incident in modern English class, the former distinguished also by an exceptionally good architecture. Mr Jackson has succeeded to a remarkable plan. The merit of excellent planning also belongs to degree in designing new buildings which are in harmony Messrs Aston Webb and Ingress Bell’s Birmingham Law with the old architecture of the university city; someCourts, one of the modern terra-cotta buildings of some- times perhaps a little too imitative of it, but at any rate what too florid detail, though picturesque as a whole. he has the credit of having added rather extensively to Among public halls the M‘Ewan Hall at Edinburgh, Oxford without spoiling it; while his school buildings in completed in 1898 from the designs of Dr Bo wand different parts of the country have a refinement and Anderson, deserves mention as one of the most original domesticity of feeling which is the true note of school