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 14 Sloan's Architectural Heview and Builders' Journal. [July, feet in width by 100 feet in depth — with a tower and spire in the centre of the front one hundred and sixty feet in height — and all designed to be con- structed of stone. The chapel is not intended to form a part of the Memorial Church, but will be erected simply for lecture, school and kindred purposes. The building should be constructed with light-colored granite ; and the design will be carried out in the most artistic manner. The tablets on the exterior are within panels formed along the sides and front of the building. The sides have a con- tinuous line of small columns, with arches springing from the caps, forming a tablet-panel and window alternately. The bases of these columns are placed on a line with the window-sills and sup- ported by gabled buttresses, which have panels between them, thus making two rows of tablets in height along each flank. The four angles of the building- are finished with tableted monumental buttresses, containing open tabernacles, surmounted by pinnacles. These are designed to represent, by device, the four points of our great continent. The interior will be arranged, on the sides, somewhat similar to the exterior, with columns and alternate windows and tablets, the angles of the audience room containing tabernacles and the ends tablets, enclosed within columns and arches. The vestibule will also be conspicuous in its array of tablets, and have handsome arches supported by the columns formed on the angles of the piers supporting the tower. The in- terior wall will be stone, and the floor throughout will be laid with encaustic tiles, or marble. The apse in the rear of the pulpit is circular in form, and de- signed with a view of containing a pic- ture commemorative of the Battle of Gettysburg, or, if more ecclesiastical, a historical account of the great memorial enterprise undertaken and executed by persons interested, throughout the coun- try. This is lighted from above ; and behind the screen in the rear of the sanc- tuary the lights are concealed from the congregation ; and so arranged as to distribute the rays uniformly upon the whole surface of the circular wall. The tablets before mentioned com- prise only a small portion of the whole number that are placed at various points throughout the building, but are the principal ones; and our limited space will not permit a more detailed ex- planation. An inspection of the cuts presented with the foregoing description will give a complete and correct view of the edifice as it will be erected. In a future number, we will give an interior view of this church, with a full description.