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 + Supplement to the ] / IV Rvinping NEWS, July 19, 1872. Building Materials, continued :— draught-excluder, 407; earth-closets, 351; “ Eclipse” range, the, 81; effects of the Paris conflagration on build- ing materials, 497; experiments on mortar, 269; fireproof construction, 497; flexible marble, 286; framed timbers, 471; glue, 387; granite, 62, 266, 325; gutters, 32, 64, 95, 170; Hornblower's fireproof flooring, 193 ; impermeable hospital walls, 281; im- proved mortars, 495; improved system of glazing, 236; improved wooden pavement, 60; inventions, modern building, 29, 62, 108, 127, 147, 169, 189, 214, 225, 232, 250, 304, 309, 331, 351, 365; iron, 232, 434, 487; Italian fireproof buildings, 281; James's patent sink- traps, 489; joining rubber, 315; light- ing and heating apparatus, 347; light- ning conductors, 67, 150, 276; lime- stones, 127, 147; Marezzo marble, 347; material for London architecture, 251, 305; Morrell’s patent sanitary closet, 586; necessity and method of testing building materials, 336; our present knowledge of building materials, and how to improve it, 433, 469, 487, 490, 510, 518; paper as a building material, 241; paste for paper-hangings, 205; patent ligno mineral paving, 471; pre- servation of stone, 109, 148; preserving wood, 422; plumbers’ chaffer-pan, 95: quarries for glazing, 96; Queensland timber, 390 ; regulators for water- closets, 351; rendering wood incom- bustible, 450; Samel's patent standard lock, 276 ; sandstones, 127, 147; selenitic mortar, 269; short theory of the truss, a, 129 ; stench traps, 347 ; stone, strength of, 488, 518; stoves, patent, 3804; substitute for wood, 347; terra- cotta, 214, 512; testing steel by the microscope, 178; timber, 390, 433; universal outside blind, 406; useful cement, 315; vents in stone, 147; Wat- combe terra-cotta, 512; water-waste preventers, 347, 351 ; window fasten- ings, 347, 407; wood pavements, 406 BUILDING News house planning competi- tion, 8, 184, 194, 301, 316, 336, 344, 364, 385, 396, 404, 425, 436, 448, 449, 458, 468, 469, 487, 490, 500, 508, 510, 511, 522: coEeas NeEWs and the Post Office, 8 Building: notion, a Yankee, 124; opera- tives in Chicago, 268 ; practice, American and foreign, 268 ; schools, 429; societies (see ‘“ Land and Building Societies”); stone and how to judge it, 202, 225, 243, 284, 325, 344, 364, 365, 406; superstitions, 367; with the aid of modern inventions, 29, 62, 108, 127, 147, et 189, 214, 225, 232, 250, 309, 331, 351, 5 Buildings : fireproof, 407; Italian fire- proof, 281; and Management Bill, Metropolitan, 151 ; public, 353 ; at Victoria Park, 46 Burges, Mr., and the completion of St. Paul's. 471 Burlingion House, Piccadilly, 247 Bury, St. Peter's Church, 90 CABINET, Prince Alfred's, 167 Caen, tlie abbey churches of, 172 Calais, harbour scheme for, 387 Camberwell: and the Metropolitan Board 2 Works, 8; Vestry Hall competition, Cambridge, Pembroke College, 125, 203 Canals, interoceanic, 20, 24 Canon Rock's art eollections, 57 Canterbury: Cathedral pavement, 174; School Board, 467 Capua, discovery at, 266 Carlisle Diocesan Church Extension So- ciety, 342 Carpeted floors, 327 Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of, 60, 366 Carriages, 229 Cartoons, Raphael's, 407 Carved oak decorations, 124 Cashel Rock, the, 386 Castle, Warwick, 24, 27, 103, 284 Casts, preserving, 281 Cathedral clock, Wells, 24 Cathedrals; Canterbury, 174; Chichester, 266; Crimean, 44; Exeter, 45, 52, 76, 174, 247, 342; Glasgow, 468; Llandaff, 334, 404; Oxford, 151; Salisbury, 343; St. Paul's, 124, 163, 286, 371, 401, 427, 448, 453, 469, 471, 491; Trent, 256; Wells, 24; Worcester, 140, 403 Cattistock Church, chimes for, 450 Cau of: decay in stone, 98, 118; fires, 78, 120, 256, 274 Ceilings and cornices, 347 Cement: brick-dust, 111 ; for fastening rubber to wood and metal, 124; from Sewage, 362, 384, 416, 495; useful, 315 Cemeteries: Brighouse, South Lon- don, 536; suburban, 316 Census, the, 301 Central: schools, St, Austell, 500; station for Dublin, a, 34 Certificate of the American Institute of Architects, 216 Cesspools of London, old, 193 Chairs, bishops’, 164 Chapels : building, 105, 117, 142, 162; Cokethorpe, 242; St. Stephen Chapter-house, Westminster, Charges: district surveyors’, professional, 476, 498 Charles’s monument, Bala, 489 Chateau de Lode, France, 256 Chaucer's tomb, 80 Chelsea : fall of houses at, 265; new schools for, 47 Chester: Architectural and Historical Society, 60; Diocesan Church Building Society, 362; Diocesan Open Church Association, 60; Wesleyan Chapel com- petition, 402 Chicago, 448,494; Chicago building opera- tives, 268 Chichester, discovery at, 266 Children in bricktlelds, 216 Chimes for Cattistock Church, 450 Chimney-cowls, 407 Chimney-pieces: Holmwood Villa, Glas- gow, 236; Maison Communale, Cruy- bere, 174 Chimneys of London, the, 112 Choice of a dwelling, the, 145 Chorley new town-hall, 139, 205, 402, 426, 469, 490 Christ Church Schools, Battersea, 68 Christian iconography, 261 Christ's Hospital, sale of, 307 Chromatic decoration for street archi- tecture, 256 Church : architecture, modern, 296 ; clocks for London, 46; spire blown down, a, 24; towers, semi-detached, 512 Churches : Begbroke, 395; Birmingham, 34, 304; Blundellsands, 402; Bury (S. Peter's), 90; Caen, 172; Dublin (St. Augustine's), 132; Ducklington, 242 ; Freeland, 395: Haggerston (St. Columba’s), 52; Hull (St. John’s), 522; Ifs, 216; Kensington, 326; King’s Nor- ton, 342, 403; Leuchars, 20, 34, 151; Newington, 370, 446; Normandy (Sb. Lo), 194; Northfleet (All Saints’), 112 ; Northleigh, 395; Sandgate, 275; Sompt- ing, 68; Southleigh, 242; struck by lightning, 44. 67, 403; Witney, 242; Wood Green, Staffordshire, 120, 276 City: Architects’ Office, 256; branch ofthe North London Railway, 200, 264; land, value of, 268; of London and the census, 391; of homes, the, 471 Civil Engineering :—Bridge over the Ystwyth, 46; bridge building in England and America, 322; Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 32, 98, 180, 193, 200, 236, 264, 296, 512; cylin- ders for the Albert Bridge, the, 32; deepest well in the world, the 512; Detroit tunnel, the, 307; difficulty of estimating cost of drainage, 427; drain- age of the Fens, 216; harbour scheme for Calais, 387; hints on the employ- ment of blasting powder, 406; Holborn Viaduct Station, 46; Institution of Civil Engineers, 47, 123, 193, 322, 385, 3887, 427, 515 ; inter-oceanic canals, 20; Leicester Waterworks, 515; loads on girders, 382; London and North Western Railway, new works, 247; Metropolitan Extension of the Great Eastern Railway, 236; modern railway construction, 180; new bridge at St. Louis, 163; North London Rail- way, City Branch, 200, 264; Norwich sewerage works, 188; notes on earth- work, 249, 270, 291, 330, 352, 372, 451, 485, 505; piers and harbours, 283; Russian maritime canal, 24; South Dock, Isle of Dogs, 822; suspended, or one-rail railway, 59; travelling-stage used in the erection of the roof over St. Pancras Station, 41; tunnel under the Mersey, the, 282, tunnelling machi- nery, 180 Civil Engineers, Institution of, 47, 123, 193, 322, 385, 387, 427, 515 Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 82, 98, 180, 198, 200, 236, 264, 296, 512 Clapton-park Congregational Chapel, 117 Clarifying sewage-water by lime, 83 Classes at the Architectural Association, 47, 124, 151, 205, 287, 327, 367, 375, 407, 450 Clean drains and improved mortars, 495 Cleaning and regilding, 109 Cleansing of rivers, the, 310 Clergy-house, St Peters’, Folkestone, 8 Clocks: church, 46, Wells Cathedral, 24 Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, 296 Closets: earth, 351; Morrell’s, 536; patent, 304 Closing of the Surrey Theatre, 387 Coach-building, 229 Cokethorpe Chapel, 242 Colleges: Old Aberdeen, 152; University, 47; Worthing, 286 Colouring: plans, 210; white marble, 306 Coming of age of a firm, 415 Comments on the Conference, 529 Commissions: Benefit Building Societies, 275, 326; Sanitary, 342 Commodes, patent, 3' Common at Plumstead, the, 306 Compensation to workmen for accidents, 406 COMPETITIONS : — Aberystwith schools, 162, 183, 2 Berlin Houses ment, 406, 422, 512; planning com- 225, 301, 316, veneers, 281; of Parlis 5, 336, 2 404, 425 448, 449, 4 490, 500, 610, 511, 512 535; Camberwell Vestry Hall, 52; Charles's monument, Bala, 489; Chester Wesleyan Chapel, 402; Chorley new town hall, 139, 205, 402, 426, 469, 490; competitions and the Architectural Conference, 479, 480, 495; competitions beginning to pay at last, INDEX OF CONTE} TS. Competitions, continued :— 385; Crystal Palace music prizes, 535; Darlington new fever hospital, 267; Derby School Board schools, 89; Dewsbury School Board schools, 823; Huddersfield schools, 376; Leeds Exchange and News-rooms, 52; Leeds Union infirmary, 304; liberal premiums to competitors, 535; London School Board, 139, 395, 409, 414, 425, 435, 465, 507, 522; Louth new hospital and dis- pensary, 89, 100, 139; Middlesborough School Board, 164; Mirfleld endowed schools, 304; New Barnet Congrega- tional schools, 236; new church at Blundellsands, 402; new method of ap- pointing school board architects, 143; new Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, 275: new way of getting up a competi- tion, 78, 99; Newington mission church, 370, 446; Newington parish church, 870; Penzance public buildings, 236; perspective views in architectural com- pensions, 262, 285; Portsmouth School ‘oard, 139; proposed model dwellings at Sunderland, 34; public baths, Hanley, 120; regulations adopted by the Archi- tectural Conference for the conduct of competitions, 480, 495; Rochester schools, 522; Ross Union Workhouse, 304, 402; Royal Agricultural Society's competition, 405; Salford Library and Reading Rooms, 423, 446; Scarborough schools, 423, 436, 522; Sevenoaks cottage hospital, 489; sewerage scheme for Liverpool, 20; snow-melting apparatus, 75; Southport Town-hall and markets, 20, 34; Spalding Mechanics’ Institute, 489; Strasburg, reconstruction of the Temple Neuf, 236; St. Austell School Board schools, 402; St. Helen’s town- hall, 241; St. Martin’s Church, Bir- mingham, 34, 304; St. Paul's Church, Sandgate, 275; Sunderland workmen’s dwellings, 139; Surrey Chapel, 236; synagogue for Liverpool, 20; Tiverton Land and Building Company, 304, 405; Victoria Hall, Exeter, 535; Welsh Pres- byterian Church, Liverpool, 78, 99; Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 225, 245; Whittlesey workhouse, 52; Wood- green Church, near Wednesbury, 120; Worcester Guildhall, 75; Worcester School Board schools, 78, 101, 120, 121, 122, 142; Worksop schools, 402 Completion of: Moulsford Asylum, 24; St. Paul's Cathedral, 124, 163, 286, 371, 401, 427, 448, 453, 469, 471, 491 Composition ornaments, 109 Concrete, 108, 140, 144, 162, 247, 296, 322, 493, 519 Condemnation of a great French hospital, 80, 268 Conditions of builders’ contracts, 182 Conductors, lightning, 67, 150, 276 Conference of Architects: 1871, 18, 256, 262; 1872, 256, 291, 465, 467, 473, 495, 505, 515, 529 Conflagrations in Paris, the, 497 Congregational: chapel, Clapton-park, 117; Memorial Hall, 34; schools, New Barnet, 236 Conservancy of the Lea 185; conservancy of rivers, 185, 230, 365, 386 Conservative Land Society, 306 Constant water-supply, 227, 246, 410 Construction: of the Albert Hall, 74; of fireproof buildings, 407, 497; of rail- ways, modern, 180; Roman, 168 Contemporary chapel-building, 105, 117, 142, 162 Contracts, builders’, 182, 466 Conventual buildings of Westminster Abbey, 443 Ra Acai; Institute of Architects, 531 Copper gas-pipes, 267 Cornices and ceilings, 347 Correspondence :— ABERYSTWITH School Board, 162, 183, 203; Ancient oak furniture, 184 ; Archi- tects and the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 4( Architectural Con- ference, the, 183; Art v. Science, 45, 58, 77; Artificial stone, 345; Asphalte, its use for roadways and other purposes, 122, 183; Assistants and office-manage- ment, 424 BERLIN competition, the, 122, 142; Bicentrolinead, the, 345; Builders’ book-keeping, 184, 267; Builders’ co- operation, 101; Building with the aid of modern inventions, 225; Building stone and how to judge it, 202, 225, 243, 284, 825, 344, 364, 365 CAPTAIN SEDDON’S paper on testing materials, 469, 490, 510; Chorley Town- hall competition, 426, 469, 490 ; Chicago, 448; Closets, 365; Competitions, 405, 448, 510, 534; Competitions beginning to pay at last, 385; Completion of St. Paul's Cathedral, 448, 469; Concrete and beton-work, 45, 77, 100, 140, 162; Congregational chapel-building, 142, 162 “DECENCY " and the Victoria Em- bankment, 325; Devonshire marble, 305; Dilapidations, lay, 44; Dr. Hay- ward's model house. . B05; Drain-pipes, taps, &c., 45, 59, 78, 100; Dublin Exhibition, the, 511, 534 ECCLESIASTICAL Dilapidations Act (1871), 449; Economising the sewage, 9 ; Exeter Cathedral, 45, 52 Fergusson, Mr., and Gothic, 45; Few thoughts on art critics, a, 511; Fixed wash-stands, 365; Foundations for BUILDING NEWS, Vou. XXII. January to June, 1872. ———_ ————qx—oeum: Correspondence, continued :— buildings, 58, 77, 122, 123, 141; Furni- ture in the International Exhibition, 469, 490 GALLERIED churches, 142; Gains- borough Corn Exchange, 245; General Scott and the sewage problem, 384; Granite in architecture, 266, 325; Great Italian architects, 101, 121, 142 Hor water-pipes and fires, 45, 77, 100, 122; House at Bexley Heath, 244; House at Shortlands, Kent, 448 ; House- drainage and the ventilation of drains and soil-pipes, 22, 23, 44, 59, 78, 100, 424, 448, 469, 490; House-planning, 184, 225, 244, 325, 344, 364, 385, 404, 425, 449, 468, 469, 490, 508, 511, 535; Housetop Gar- dens, 266; How architects are treated in. the West, 225, 245, 405 ILLEGIBLE lettering, 469, 490; Im- proved chiming apparatus, 344; Initialed correspondence, 122; International Exhibition, the, 469, 490 , LIBERAL premiums to competitors. 535; Llandaff Cathedral, 384, 404; London police-courts and stations, 244, 285, 305; London School Board com- petition, 425; Louth new hospital and dispensary competition, 100 MATERIAL and style for Londoa architecture, 305; Modern Scottish ecclesiastical architecture, 533; Mortar and concrete, 45, 58, 77, 100, 140, 162; Mr. Sharpe on the Holy Sepulchre, 78 NEw Law Courts, 22, 58, 59, 99, 140, 161; New Masonic Hall competition, Liverpool, 142; New way of getting up & competition, 78, 99; Nova-Scotian style of architecture, the, 343; Novel advertisement, a, 385 PEMBROKE College, Cambridge, 203; Perspective, 285; Picturesque house- planning, 404; Plagiarism, 468, 469, 490, 508, 511, 535; Plumbing, 78, 100, 101, 122, 141, 162, 184, 203, 225, 244, 266, 284, 424, 448, 469, 490; Popular art-criticism, 424; Pressure of gas in drains, sewers, and soil-pipes, 45, 59,78; Prices in the North and in the West, 426; Profes- sional charges, 426 “QUARTERLY REVIEW,” the, and architects and operative masons, 535 RESTORATION of Llandaff Cathedral, 404; Roman exploration fund, 266; Royal Institute of British Architects, 405 SANITARY, 23; Sanitary Engineering, 345, 365; School-planning, 534, 535; Selection of building stone, 202, 2265, 243, 284, 325, 344, 364, 365; Separate sewage system, the, 45; Sewer ventila- tion, 44, 59, 78, 100, 162; Short-time movement in the building-trade, 405; Sir Christopher Wren and Free- masonry, 163; Sketches of old work,, 101; Street improvements in London, 163; St. Alban's Abbey, 509; Sugges- tions on the wages question, 384, 405 ; Suspended or one-rail railway, 59 TAKING-OUT quantities in Scotland, 510; Tintern Abbey, 405; “To Archi- tects of the Gothic school,” 510 UNPROFESSIONAL conduct, 141; use- ful instrument, a, 345 Visit of the Architectural Associa- tion to Croydon, 325 WARMING and ventilation, 243, 285; Welsh Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, 78, 99; Western Counties Idiot Asylum competition, 225, 245 ; Westminster Abbey, 534; Wooden water mains, 490; Worcester School Board schools _com- petition, 78, 101, 121, 122, 142; Work for leisure hours, 122 YORK-STAIRS, 325 ‘ Cost of: drainage, 427; public buildings, 353 Cottage Hospital, Sevenoaks, 489 Courts of Law, the new, 22, 25, 34, 57, 58, 59, 90, 99, 140, 161, 261 Covered market, Preston, 327 Cowls for chimneys, 407 Cragside, 376, 404 Crimean cathedral, remains of a, 44 Critical notes on great Italian architects, 8, 39, 73, 84, 101, 110, 121, 137, 142, 146, 179, 341, 350, 374, 421, 454, 517 Criticism: architectural, 530; damnatory, 1, 45 Critics, architectural, 478 Crossing-sweepers, Ruskin’s, 7, 491 Croydon School of Art, 422. Crystal Palace music competition, 535 Cubitt’s works, Messrs., 495 any Cumberland, pre-historic remains in, 22 Cushions, new stuffing for, 327 Cutting large timber, 303 _ Cylinders for the Albert Bridge, 32 DA MAJANO, Benedetto, 374 Da Ponte, Antonio, 517 Damnatory art criticism, 1, 45 Damp houses, 33 Danes Inn, 24 Dangerous structures, 267 Darlington new fever hospital, 267 Dead art, 34 Deal, improvements at, 46 Deaths (see * Obituary”) Decay in stone, 98, 109, 118 Decline of art, the, 132 Decoration (see “ Furniture and Decora- tion”) Decorations: carved oak, 124; portable, 174, 435 Decorative: art, 390; processes, 6, 31, 49, 86, 109, 128, 149, 171, 190, 213, 231, 251, 271, 311 Deepest well in the world, the, 512