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 G88 Tlic Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [May, must meet the admiration of the pro- fession in this country for its excellencies of arrangement. The following lettered reference will explain the features of the plan : — A, Church. B, School. C, Lecture Hall. D, Class Room. E, Class Room. F, Minister's Vestry. G, Deacon's Vestry. H, H, Yards. I, Baptistry. The plan consists of a cruciform Church, having parallel to its length a large School room 60 by 30 feet. Behind this School is an Infant Class Room 38 by 18 feet, and a Select Class Room, with separate yards for boys and girls. Behind the Church is a Lecture Hall for weekly evening services, 28.6 by 18.6, with a Vestry for the Minister, and another for the Deacons, with easy communication between them. The Church consists of a Nave 58 feet by 22.6, with aisles 11.6 wide, and transepts 17 by 18 feet from face of Nave. The Arcade is of brick, supported upon ornamented cast-iron columns. Above the Nave is a clerestory, with circular lights. At the end of the Nave is a circular Apse, in which is placed the Baptistry, constructed of stone and intended to be alwaj's open. The can- didates descend the steps marked No. 1, and ascend Nos. 2 or 3, (according to sex;) the Lecture room and Infants' Class room being used as dressing rooms for male and female candidates respectively. Traps are provided in each floor to receive and drain off the water from the wet garments. The apse is raised above the church floor two feet, so that the congregation may witness the act without any move- ment from their seats. Above the Baptistry in the upper part of the apse, a gallery is provided, cir- cular in plan, for the organ and choir ; access being obtained from the lobby in the angle. A gallery is provided over each aisle of the church, and across the end ; accessible from the front lobbies. . The front of the galleries is of pitch- pine, with Quebec pine panels in the bottom, and ornamental iron^work in the top panels. The seats are all open ; with pitch-pine, shaped ends. The School room is shown as fitted up for the Sunday-school : A movable par- tition, some six feet high, runs down the centre, and divides the boys and girls. The classes are formed by movable seats made low for the comfort of the children, and fitted with backs, so that space is economized, and a large num- ber of classes provided for. The Superintendent occupies the plat- form, and the Secretary a table below. In the Infant Class room a gallery is provided for the simultaneous method of teaching ; and the class room and Deacon's Vestry used for senior classes. The Style is the Early Decorated. The exterior is faced with pitched or Rock face stone in about three inch beds, and of a gray color. The dressings are in freestone, of a buff color ; giving a fine soft contrast. The Spire is of wood framing, cov- ered with vari-colored Welch slates in bands and pattern ; and is surmounted with a weather-vane lightning conductor. The windows of the School are glazed with lead quarry lights, filled with " Cathedral " glass. The floors of the aisles are laid with tesselated paving, of simple pattern. The platforms where the seats are fixed are about four inches above the aisles, and boarded. The total cost of the building is about £4,000, and the land costs about £500. The Schools are erected, and the large one fitted up with seats for worship until the church can be completed. Tardy Justice.— Henry Kirke White, the young poet, of Nottingham, has at last had a testimony of his worth, in the shape of a memorial window. and marble busts in the chancel of his favor- ite Wilford church.