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 Marcu 22, 1872. Huilding Intelligence, CHURCHES AND CHAPELS, Biruincuam.—The new church of S. Cuthbert, Birmingham Heath, was consecrated on Tuesday by The church is built of the Bishop of Worcester. red brick, with stone dressings. windows. constructed as to form an organ chamber, are sittings to accommodate 720 persons. is a bell turret at the north-west corner. Cuurcn Exrenston.—The Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Re- pairing of Churches and Chapels held its usual Grants of money were made in aid of the following objects, viz :-— Building a new church at Bromsgrove, Worcester; re-building (on a new site) the church at Hartford, in the parish of Budworth, Cheshire; enlarging or otherwise increasing the accommodation in the monthly meeting on Monday last. churches at Bredgar, near Sittingbourne; East Church, near Sheerness; Elstead, near Godalming ; Gough-square, Holy Trinity, London ; Higington, near Darlington; Newton Valence, near Alton, Hants; St. Keyne, near Liskeard; Snaye, near Ashford, Kent; Tangley, near Andover; Thanet, S. Peter, near Ramsgate; West Ashby, near Horn- castle; Winchcombe, Gloucester ; and Withingham, near Cheltenham. Under urgent circumstances, the grants formerly made towards re-seating and re- storing the church at Stoke Fleming, near Dart- mouth, wasinereased. A grant was also made from the School, Church, and Mission House Fund towards fitting up a mission house at the Cartway, in the parish of S. Leonard’s, Bridgnorth. The Society likewise accepted the trust of sums of money as repair funds for the churches at Penn, S. Philips, Wolverhampton; and 9. Thomas, Isle of Man. Liyerroor.—All Souls (Roman) Catholic Mor- tuary Chapel, Liverpool, was consecrated on Passion Sunday. The building, which is in the Gothic style of architecture of the Decorated period, consists of a mortuary and chapel. It may be described as a nave, 37ft. by 28ft. which forms the mortuary, contain- lug ample space for 21 coffins, and has a distinct entrance from the street, the opposite end being semi- octagonal. The sides and end of the mortuary are divided into seven equal bays, the arches of which are supported by eight polished granite shafts rest- ing on a stone plinth, the bays being sub-divided by smaller granite shafts supporting intervening arches and tracery; and between these shafts there is plate glass filling in the openings of arches and tracery, and thus forming a complete division from the aisles, yet affording an uninterrupted view of the interior. The aisles surround the mortuary and constitute the chapel portion, which is semi-octagonal, except the centre, which projects so as to form the chancel. Adjoining the chancel are a sacristy and other con- veniencies, The exterior of the building is of York- shire stone, with stone dressings. About £4,500 has been expended in the erection of the mortuary chapel. The designs were furnished by Mr. H. Sumners, architect, of the firm of Culshaw and soe the builders being Messrs, Tomkinson & on. Sanpyrorp. — The memorial stones of a new Wesleyan Chapel and schools were laid on Monday week. The cost of the building will be nearly £700. It will be a plaia substantial brick building, 36ft. by 45ft., and will accommodate about 250 persons. One portion will be partitioned for school purposes, and the partition will be capable of being withdrawn, so that the whole building can be used when required for divine worship. The architect is Mr. R. Dain, of Burslem, and the builder Mr. Joseph Lunt, of Tunstall. BUILDINGS, Hunsier.—The foundation-stone of a building to be used for the education and training of children in connection with the Hunslet Union was laid on Wednesday week. Messrs. Hill and Swan, of Leeds, supplied the designs, which embrace class-rooms and training quarters for girls and boys. Accommoda- tion will be provided for about one hundred, and there will be dormitories over the class-rooms. The new building is estimated to cost £2,500. Itis being erected by Messrs. Oates & Son. THE BUILDING NEWS. 243 It consists of a nave, 80ft. by 263ft.,; north and south aisles, 12ft. wide ; chancel, 271ft. long, with apsidal termina- tion; vestry, and a north-eastern tower (unfinished). The roof of the nave is open timbered, the ridge being 52ft. high. The building is lighted by three three-light windows in the chancel, a west window, five windows along each aisle, and twenty clerestory There is a small gallery at the west end of the church, and the basement of the tower is so There On the exterior the walls are broken into gables, and there opened on the branch line of the Midland Railway at Retford. Like most of the stations on this line, it is graceful and commodious. Itis situated at the end of a viaduct of fifteen arches, and has good approaches, excellent offices, and well-appointed waiting-rooms. The down line platform is 150 yards long, and the up platform about 170 yardsin length. The structure is of Memel timber, the abutments being of stone. The rails are supported on wrought-iron girders braced together, manufactured at the works of the Butterley Company. The new station is light in ap- pearance, andis inthe Italian style. Mr. Saunders was the architect, and Mr. Humphrey the contractor, Mr. J. Crossley, the engineer to the company, superin- tending the deviation of the line, the roads, &e. ReApInG.—The town council have finally resolved to adopt Mr, Waterhouse’s revised plans in place of the proposed buildings for public offices, comprising anew council chamber and other improvements of the town-hall building, which he estimated could be carried out at a cost not exceeding £7,000; that Mr. Waterhouse be requested to finish the plans submitted, and to prepare a perspective view of the exterior, with an explanatory report and estimate, in order that the same may be submitted to the council for consideration. <> GOOD FRIDAY. 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HAYWARD’S MODEL HOUSE. To the Editor of the Bumvrxe News. Srr,—In your journal of the 8th inst. you gave a description of this building from the Medical Times and Gazette, upon which I wish to make a few ob- servations. Acknowledging the high intelligence and value of the various experiments made therein, and the certainty that many practical hints are to be gleaned therefrom, I venture to think that the whole scheme should be received with caution. Arrangements for ventilation and other sanitary matters should be as simple as possible, self-acting, and needing little atten- tion, as although an enthusiast may by personal ap- plication or instruction for a period secure all the requisite care, a time will come when such energy will flag and the machinery be neglected ; and, further, all appliances of this nature should also be as inex- pensive as possible to secure general adoption. many points the general arrangements bear a close resemblance to the plan proposed on an extensive scale in my report for the Law Courts, which was drawn up at my direction by Mr. John Barber, engineer, of Leeds, who arranged all the warming and In |. Retrorp.—A new passenger station has just been | ventilation appliances for the New Infirmary at Leeds. The ideas as to inlets and outlets seem in particular to correspond, but our opinions as to inlets for warm air have somewhat changed since then, and we are inclined to abandon both the position at the bottom and the top of the room, and to prefer a neutral one at between four and five feet from the floor for fresh air to be brought into an inhabited room. Dr.Hayward’s arguments, balancing inletsin theskirt- ing and the cornice against each other, seem also to point to a position midway between them as the best. Practically, different rooms will be found to need special treatment ; the inlet, which may be behind fixed articles of furniture, should be of ample size, and protected by fine gauze, which will prevent the air being felt as adraught, coming from what position it may; but it must be better unmixed with the heated foul air near the ceiling or the cooled car- bonic acid just above the floor. Openings near and in the chimney-piece also can be arranged so as to admit warmed air unfelt, and in a direction so as not to be drawn back to feed the fire at once, which is undesirable. A long purse would be needed for the adoption of Dr. Hayward’s idea of making heating; lobbies to the various clusters of rooms in buildings, and the same object may be effected by properly building external walls with hollow spaces between their outer andinner casings. These can be divided into compartments, which may serve alternately as upeast and downcast shafts, and the fresh air brought in can be easily and cheaply warmed by one neutral heating chamber in the basement, and open— ings made to supply the warmed fresh air to the different apartments upon the upper floors. Airtight fixed windows are surely most objection- able on many grounds, one of which is want of safety in case of fire, and another the privation of the pleasant convenience of open windows upon summer evenings. Again a serious expense is entailed by the cleaning; thus, the windows of the Leeds Infir— mary cost £100 per annum to clean four times a year, although really in sosmoky a town that opera- tion ought to be performed every three weeks. These opinions, of course, are only formed from the printed matter, and might be modified upon in— spection of the building or its plans and the details. of the appliances used.—I am, &e., 12, Park-street, Westminster, Jomn P. Seppon. March 18, 1872. BUILDING STONE, AND HOW TO JUDGE IT.—II. Srr,—In my last I perhaps treated rather lightly chemical tests for stone, yet they are by no means use— less, though for workmen entirely so. One use is to as— certain if the stone contains anything at all likely to be affected by the air generally, and more parti- cularly sea and London air. However, after all, analysis is not of so very much use. My first entering on this matter was pure acci- dent. I was at Mansfield viewing the quarries, and I observed that the white stone in many of the beds was full of holes, filled with hardened dark bluish clay, while some, to a cursory view, was perfectly sound. Nevertheless, I observed that the cross, which had only been built a few years, was decaying. It struck me that the clay I observed at the quarry might be the cause. Accordingly, on examination under the microscope, I found it full of very small holes filled with the same sort of clay as I observed at the quarry. Of course the clay holes were the first attacked by the weather. Now, this stone is not the only one of its class so affected, though I do not think it very extensive, yet sufficiently so to merit notice, The filling matter, I need scarcely say, will not always be found identical. From this time I turned my attention to Yorkshire sandstones, as well as others in the North, but my progress wasnot very much; yet, since I have again been among them, I found I had learned more than I thought of. I men- tion this to show that if you do not understand what things noted may mean at the time, the time may come when they will be understood. Even if what is noted be of no use for the purpose you are after, it may be for other purposes, besides giving a habit of observation. The real cause of my following the subject up to a partially successful issue, was necessity. I went to a church in Croydon parish where Corsham Down and Box Ground stones were used: I saw stones were being used which, I felt confident, were not what they ought to be, but I could give no reason for the faith that was in me, so I held my tongue; went off to see all buildings of the same stone that had been built some years; thoroughly examined all stone going, and not going with the microscope, noted what I examined; classed my observations in my own mind; and the result was, that in a very few days, I wasa good judge. I found the reasons for my