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 PAROCHIAL COUNTRY SCHOOLS. 7 i9 ill two doorways fir proper doorcases 4 inches by 4 inches let into the stone, and lintels over them, and hang two H-inch deal bead butt and square doors, with 3A-inch butts, two 4i-inch best brass-bushed dead locks (iron locks with brass linings to the keyholes) and keys, two 4-inch strong bolts. — Yards. Fix in two openings in the fence walls fir proper doorcases, 6 inches by 4 inches, with heads 2 feet longer than the openings, the posts let in 2 inches into the stone sills ; and hang to ditto 2-inch deal two large reed flush and square two folding doors, 2 panels, each with three pair of 4-inch wrouglit butts and screws to each pair; three 3 feet 10 inch strong rough rod-bolts, plates, and staples, and one strong wrought-iron latch to each door- way. Fix two strong stud posts and iron catches to keep the gates open. 1586. Mason. Fix sixteen Bath stone moulded caps on piers 3 feet 3 inches long, 10 inches by 6 inches each, and sixteen Batli stone neckings (members which are always used on the top of a column or pilaster, in Tuscan and Roman Doric orders, under the cap), 2 feet 10 inches long, each 7 inches by 2 inches. Fix Portland stone sills to all the window openings and blanks, 6 inches longer than the openings, 8 inches by 4 inches in one stone, sunk, weathered, and throated, and cut away bond timber at back for ditto. The sill to the east and west window to be 10 inches by 6 inches. Fix two pieces of 4-incli York landing (an extra-sized stone laid down before doors, and in the landing-places of stairs) in the openings in the fence wall, 4 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet wide each, worked fair on both edges ; and cut mortise holes (holes for the projecting ends of the wooden framework) for the doorcases round corners. Fix three rubbed York stone steps to the doorway into the boys' school, and three ditto to the doorway to the house; each in one stone and 9 inches longer than the openings, 13 inches by 7 inches each, neatly rabbeted, and back-jointed to the floor ; the ends worked fair, and the corners of the bottom steps rounded ; cut mortise holes, and let in scrapers 4 inches deep, run with lead. Fix six York steps rabbeted, 13 inches by 7 inches, 3 feet 9 inches long each to the yards for the privies, &c. Pave the yards for the privies, and all privies and coal-yards, with 3-inch York paving in straight courses. Provide two pieces of 3-inch York stone, 18 inches square, for the yards; and provide and fix five 8-inch iron bell air-traps. Fix on two entrance doorways in the fence walls 3-inch York coping, rubbed and throated to all the edges, 22 inches wide and 7 feet 7 inches long each, in two stones bedded in cement, and double cramped with strong copper cramps run with lead. Fix, for the staircase to the girls' school, Purbeck stone steps, rabbeted and let into the walls. The first five steps and the four upper steps 4 feet 2 inches long, and the other ten flyers (straight steps in contradistinction to winders) 4 feet 9 inches long ; the four winders (diagonal steps for the corners) may be out of 4-inch York landings, with risers of the same ; the ends to be securely pinned in with cement, the bottom step to be rounded, and set on brickwork, with cut holes for iron bars. Fix two 3-inch York slabs in boys' and girls' schools for stoves, 3 feet 9 inches by 3 feet each, bedded in cement, the edges rubbed fair. Fix three neat solid Portland chimney- pieces, to show as profile chimneys, with 1^-inch shelf, slab, and York hearths to each, in the two pair and one pair and committee-room ; and fix 2-inch rubbed York mantel and jambs, 8 inches wide, in kitchen. Pave the kitchen all over with 2^-inch York paving laid on brickwork two courses high. Fix a 7-inch York sink in kitchen, as shown on plan, 2 feet wide, cut holes for pipes, and let in liell trap, and provide and let in one 8-Jnch iron 3-inch York stones in flues for pipes in boys' and girls' school, 14 inches by 9 inches, fitted so as to be removed when required, and let iron pipes through ditto, and make good and flanch off brickwork with cement across flue, to prevent the soot from falling. Fix two York sink-stones, and form shafts in cement from ditto, into drain in coal-yards. 1587. Plasterer. Properly stop and lime-white twice over the walls all round in boys' and girls' school, and the boarding rafters, and timbers of girls' school, the inside wall and roof of the privies. Lath, la)', and float, and set, and whiten the ceilings and partitions on both sides of all rooms, closets, staircase, &c., throughout the dwelling-house, and the ceiling of boys' school and committee-room, and the soffit outside round building, and render float and set the walls in all the rooms and closets and staircase, and stucco the committee-room. The laths to the ceiling in boys' school and committee-room, and outside soffits, to be done with lath and half-laths ; and the walls, &c., in the rooms of the one pair of stairs, and the staircase, and committee-room, to be coloured drab. Cover the plinth neckings and upper part of chimney shaft with Parker's cement, jointed, coloured, and tinted as stone, with proper arises and throats, the tops weatliered. Cover the tablets at the east end with Parker's cement, and work on ditto, in raised letters, the name of the present school, date of erection, &c. Cover the roof of the privies with three courses of plain tiles in cement rendered top and bottom with cement, and work plain cornices along l)oth fronts, throated, and colour ditto, and form current for water, and fix two cement rain-water trunks to take water into the drains. Render inside of the open drain
 * )ell air-trap, with brick shaft under ditto into drain, in cement. Provide and fix two