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 1809.] Descriptions. A platform has been provided, in lieu of a pulpit, below the floor of which is the baptistery, made in Ransome's patent concrete stone. The steps from the baptistery lead direct into the ves- tries, without descending from the plat- form to the floor of the church. The platform has a segmental front, and the rail is supported upon ornamental iron standards. The seats are all open benches, with pitch ornamental heads. Behind the church, with its eud to the street, is a lecture-room, fort}- (40) feet by twenty-one (21) feet, minister's vestiy, lobby and staircase to school- room, which is forty-five (45) feet by twenty-five (25) feet. There are three entrance doorways in the end of the church, the two side ones for the ground floors, and the centre one for the galler- ies, having a staircase to the right and left hand four feet six inches (4 feet 6 inches) wide in stone. The three vestibules are divided ; but have a door of communication. The timber work of the roof of both church and school is exposed to view. The roof of the church has carved ribs below the collar-beam, terminating upon orna- mental stone corbels in the spandrel of the arcade. The exterior is faced with stone ; the dressings in Whitby stone, and the wall- ings of Bradford, set in thin beds. The side, being to the street, is the principal front. There is a tower at the entrance cor- ner towards Micklegate, containing one of the staircases to galleries, with but- tresses at right angles, finished with plain canopy. Above these are red sandstone columns in three heights, with foliated capitals ; and between is a two- light plate tracery window. Above this there are two moulded strings, with four trefoil recesses, having plain canopies. The top stage is a two-light traceried opening, filled with ornamental slate louvres, above which there is an orna- mental corbel course and parapet ; and canopied pinnacles, with crockets, are sprung out at the angles below the corbel-course, upon foliated brackets. The tower is to the top of the parapet fifty-four (54) feet, and to the top of the pinnacles, sixty-one (61) feet in height. II is covered with a high-pitched roof of ornamental slating, having iron cresting on the ridge. At the opposite end of the front are two gables, the one being the school, and the smaller one the transept of the church. The former has a porch in the centre, with a two-light window upon each side. Above these is a three-light window, having trefoil heads, with a single trefoil-headed window upon each side, while above this is an ornamental circular window. The transepts have a four-light trefoil-headed window in the bottom part, with a three-light traceried window to light the galleiy. The aisle windows are in two tiers, divided by moulded string ; the lower tier has two- light tracery windows, and the upper tier narrow, three-light, trefoil-headed windows, the centre opening of each being; a little hio-her than' the sides. Above these is an ornamental corbel- course supporting the spouting. Be- tween the two aisle windows are three canopied buttresses in two stages. The clerestory is lighted by four very ornamental circular windows, an ornate corbel-course carrying the spouting above these ; and the roofs are slated in bands of two colors. The end elevation consists of three deeply-moulded doorwaj^s, having trefoil heads, and stone tympanum, with orna- mental piercings. The one doorway is in the tower, the elevation of which is the same as the side. Above the door- way at the opposite side., there is an ornamental rose-window, lighting the upper part of the gallery stairs, which is covered in with a high-pitched roof. Upon each side of the central doorwajr, which is wider than the others, there is i a single-light trefoil-headed window ; and above the door a three-light trace- ried window of elaborate design.