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 COUNTRY SCHOOLS. T^? wide at bottom, and 2 inches and a half wide at top ; and fix stone round the three openings in the gables and the same, 5 inches wide, round the opening in the east gable. Fix moulded Bath stone labels, 3 inches thick, over the two openings in the gables, and over the opening at tlie east end; and fix two trefoil-shaped plain sunk panels. Fix 13-inch York quarry sills, tliroated, 8 inches wide, and rubbed on the front edge, 3 inches and a half thick. 1600. Plumber. Fix TJdges and valleys, 16 inches wide, 5 pounds to the foot, with lead-headed nails, &c. Fix step flashings, 9 inches wide, 4 pounds to the foot, to both of the chimney-shafts. 7ix four stacks of 3-inch iron water-pipes, 15 feet long each ; four ditto, 10 feet long each ; two ditto, 9 feet long each ; and ten shoes ; all to be fixed in the drains with cement. Fix six heads to the pipes. 1601. Plasterer. Lath, lay, set, and whiten the ceilings and partitions of the three dwelling-rooms, staircase, and closet, &c. ; and render, set, and whiten the walls. Stop, smooth, and colour twice over the whole of the walls, rafters, timbers, boarding, &c., in the two schoolrooms, and privies, and larder ; and colour twice over the whole of the exterior brickwork, and the inside of the porches and fuel-places ; and splash ditto with colours, to imitate granite or porphyry stone (see § 542), carefully protecting the stone- work from being discoloured while the work is going on. 1602. Painter. Paint the woodwork usually painted in the dwelling-house, and the inside and outside of all the doors, windows, &e., four times in oil, of oak colour; and paint the fillets, hinges, and other ironwork, in imitation of green bronze. 1603. General Estimate. This school, if built in the neighbourhood of London, IVIr. Kent informs us, will cost from i^ 700 to £800. It contains 25,649 cubic feet; which gives about 6^d. per foot, as the guess price for buildings of this description in or near the metropolis. 1604. Remarks. Our readers, we think, will agree with us in considering this an excellent model for a parochial school of the simplest description, where there is neither an infants' school, nor a room for lectures or discussion. In point of architectural style, the effect is good ; and the care with which the skeleton specification, as it may be called, is drawn up, will form a useful study for the young Architect ; and, with the specification of the preceding Design, may supply some valuable hints to the many benevolent persons who are now, in aU parts of the country, erecting schools for mutual instruction on the Bell or Lancasterian system. Design III. — A Country School, in the Italian Style, including a Du-elling for the Master and Mistress. 1605. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 1398, and the groimd plan in fig. 1399. In the latter, a is the entrance of the master's house, and to the infant school ; 6 is a passage for the use of the master and mistress, by which the three schools are connected ; c is the infant school ; d is the girls' school, and e its entrance porch ; / is the boys' school, and g its entrance porch ; h is the parlour of the master and mistress, with a kitchen under it ; and bed-rooms over both it and the infants' school ; i is a yard to the infant school ; k, a yard to the boys' school ; and I, a yard to the girls' school. 1 606. Remarks. "We are indebted for this Design to Mr. Lamb, to whose taste in composing Italian elevations it does great credit. As in country situations it is seldom that so many infants can attend a public school as is the case in towns, the room for the infant school in this Design is much smaller than those for the boys and girls, and neither a gallery nor a class-room is considered necessary. With respect to the architec- tural style of this Design, the genius of the Italian manner is finely kept up by the masses of unpierced wall in some places, and the groups of openings in others ; thus producing strong contrasts both in construction and in effect.