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 324 THE BUILDING NEWS. Aprit 19, 1872. a new floors, £400; sundries, £260; warming and lighting, £100. Interior of naye—Repairs of stone- work, new windows, copings, crossings, openings, lower stage of tower, drainage, and new south porch, &c., £710. Chancel and chancel aisles— Ceilings, £240; floors and steps, £204; chancel seats and screens, £420; children’s seats, £112; re- pairs of windows and walls, new south door, &c., £230—total, £7,586. Oxrorp.—The new Church of S. Frideswide, Oxford, has been consecrated. As the space is now allotted, there is accommodation for about 280 wor- shippers. The building of the tower has been left, also the benches and the interior stone carving. Messrs. Honour and Castle were the builders. he original contract, as taken by them, was £3,990, but not more than about £2,500 has been spent. The ar- chitect of the works is Mr. S. S. Teulon. Privrtewetv.—The parish Church of S.Mary-the- Virgin, Prittlewell, near Southend, was reopened on Thursday, the 4th inst., by the Bishop of Rochester. The works have been carried out under the direction of Mr. Ewan Christian, architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at a cost of about £3,000; but other works are contemplated, at an estimated cost of £1,500, exclusive of the cost of restoring the noble tower of the church. ‘The building is of exceeding antiquity, and shows what took place in architectural history in Saxon times. In clearing the plaster from the wall of the nave there was found what there was good reason to believe was part of the original Saxon church, for the present arches must have been carried in the twelfth century through a wall of very much earlier date, reaching back, probably, to the old Saxon times. S. AtpAn’s Ansey.—The committee for carrying out the restoration of S. Alban’s Abbey have issued a short report as to progress of the works, from which it appears that up to the present time the principal efforts of the committee have been directed towards arresting the dangerous decay of the tower, and rescuing it from its serious condition. By the skill of the architect (Mr. G. G. Scott, R.A.) this, it is hoped, has now been effected, but the necessary outlay has been large, and a sum of nearly £5,000 has been expended on this portion of the work. The repairs of the transepts (one of which is in an unsafe condition) and of the choir are now in progress, and when to this the repairs of the choir aisles are added, a farther outlay of at least £7,000 will have been incurred. There will then remain the whole of the nave of the cburch, and the almost ruinous Lady Chapel, the substantial reparation of which will probably involve the expenditure of even a larger sum than both those already mentioned, and for which at present the fund is entirely inadequate. The committee, in appealing for more funds, say that they consider the name of the architect a suflicient guarantee as to the manner in which the works will be carried out. SaLrarre.—On Saturday last the corner stone of anew Primitive Methodist Chapel and schools, in course of erection about midway between Shipley and Saltaire, was laid. The building is to be erected from the designs of Messrs. John Kirk & Sons, architects, of Huddersfield and Dewsbury. The chapel will contain sitting accommodation for 1,000 persons. The style of architecture will be Italian, freely treated. The whole of the building will be constructed of hammer-dressed wallstones and ashlar dressings from the local quarries. The entire cost of the building will be about £4,500. Sevenoaks.—On Wednesday week a new chancel, which has been added to the church of Sevenoaks ‘Weald, was consecrated by the Bishop of Dover. The walls of the new structure are built of Kentish rag stone with dressings of Tunbridge sandstone ; the roofs are of Baltic timber covered with Penmoyle green slating. The ceiling is polygonal in section, boarded below the rafters, and divided by moulded ribs into panels, which are decorated with an ara- besque design, Thecontractor for the general work was Mr. Wiltshire, of Sevenoaks. The floor tiling was supplied by Messrs. Godwin, of Lugwardine, near Hereford. The architect was Mr. T. G. Jackson, of London and Sevenoaks. Sono.—On Wednesday Canon Liddon laid the foundation stone of a new chancel to the Church of 5. Mary the Virgin, Soho. The new chancel, which is about to be built by Messrs. Gibson Brothers, willbe of brick. The style will be Early English, and the addition will enable 150 more sittings to be placed in the church. A clergy house in connection ‘with the church has been recently built, and plans are under consideration for church schools. It is also proposed to rebuild the nave when sufficient funds are raised. SuNpERLAND.—The new Church of S, Mark, Millfield, Sunderland, is nearly completed. Potts & Son, whose designs were accepted after a limited competition, are the architects. The build- ing is of Pensher rubble masonry, and Pensher and Unsworth stone dressings. The interior face of the walls throughout is formed with ashlar in Prudham stone. The open roof and benches are red deal, stained. The width of the church has necessitated roofs of flat pitch to the aisles. The church will seat about 600 persons, and the cost will be about £3,000. Messrs. W. Scott & Son are the builders. Tuorr Arci.—The Church of All Saints, Thorp Arch, Yorks, was reopened last week, after restora-- tion by Mr. G. E. Street. It has been found neces- sary to almost entirely rebuild the nave and north aisle. The walls of the chancel, too, were shattered, and a portion of the stonework had to be renewed. The old square Perpendicular tower, however, was discovered to be in a sound state, and it has not been interfered with. A new porch has been built on the south side of the nave, and its gable is surmounted by a Maltese cross of stone. The old stone has been used as far as possible in the rebuilding, and when the outside walls were completed a high-pitched roof, open-timbered, was provided for both nave and chancel. The flooring throughout has been relaid and covered with coloured tiles, that in the chancel and in the sacrarium being provided with glazed tiles worked out into a handsome pattern. A new vestry has been built on the north side of the chancel, underneath which is a hot-water apparatus for warming the church. A doorway at the west-end— made generations ago by blocking up and to some extent mutilating the west window—which was practically useless, has been stopped up, and the west window, of three lights, has been restored as it originally existed. £1,200 have been expended on the work. The church will now seat nearly 200 worshippers. WeAvertHORPE.—The Church of S. Andrew, Weaverthorpe, Yorks, was reopened on Thursday week, after restoration by Mr. G. E. Street. In the restoration every ancient feature has been rigidly preserved, the old walls and windows have been carefully restored, and the gables of the nave and chancel have been raised to the pitch of the original church, and the roofs have been covered with lead. Externally the church presents its old appearance. Internally the edifice consists of tower, nave, and chancel, with south porch. In the sacrarium, in the north wall, there is an ancient credence, and another in the south wall, and in the south-east angle a new piscina has been placed. An iron screen separates the nave from the tower space, which forms 4 vestry, over which is the belfry. The pulpit is of orna- mental iron work, in the north-east angle of the nave. Mr. Booth, of London, was the builder. Wesrminster.—Yesterday (Thursday) week a new Wesleyan Chapel in the Horseferry-road, West- minster, was opened for public worship. The building is Gothic in style, and, with the site and extras, the cost will be nearly £20,000. The principal frontage is in Horseferry-road, facing Regent-street ; there is also a frontage in Medway-street, in the rear, with entrances. Beneath the chapel in a large schoolroom, capable of accommodating 500 children, together with an infant school and several class-rooms. Messrs. Wilson & Willcox are the architects, Mr Cullum being the builder. BUILDINGS. BermMonpsey. — The new memorial schools in Grange-road, Bermondsey, were formally opened on Friday last by the Earl of Shaftesbury. The schools, which have been built at the sole cost of Mr. Boutcher, are Gothic in style, and surround three sides of a spacious court-yard, to which en- trance is obtained from the Grange-road. The boy’s school is in the shape of the letter L, and compre- hends the whole of the left wing and the whole of the ground floor of the main building. It is 45ft. Gin. long one way, and 78ft. the other, and is of a uniform width of 19ft., and the shape in which it is built is the one recommended by the Privy Council. The girls’ school is immediately above the boys’, but { does not extend into the wing, and is 78ft. by 19ft. } The infants’ school-room is on the right wing, and is 66ft. Gin. by 22ft., while the windows in the girls’ schoolroom are in gables. The accommodation is for 700 children—300 boys, 200 girls, and 200 in- fants. The site cost £2,500, and the cost of the buildings was £4,546. Mr. Joseph Gale, of Ber- mondsey-street, was the architect, and Messrs. Browne & Robinson were the builders. BrrmincuaAm.—On Tuesday evening S. Mary’s Schools, Aston Brook, were opened. The schools provide accommodation for 600 children. The building is in brick, with stone dressings. The cost of erection has been £2,300. Mr. J. A. Chatwin Messrs. | was the architect, and Mr. Partridge the builder. Braprorp.—On Friday morning the Bishop of Ripon opened S. Augustine’s School, Bradford. The scheme embraces a church and schools, the total cost of which is estimated at £9,000. The design was prepared by Messrs. T. H. and F. Healey, architects, Bradford. The schools for boys and girls is the portion now erected. These rooms each measure 44ft. by 21ft., with an internal height of 19ft. Gin., and will accommodate 258 scholars. Class-rooms areattached, ‘The cost is about £1,500. It is intended, at some future period, to build an infants’ school, 50ft. by 21ft. at right angles with the present structure, and from the infants’ school a cloister will afford access to the church. Great Drirrretp.—Mr. H. J. Paull of Man- chester, has been appointed architect to the School Board, Great Driffield, in the East Riding of York- shire, where a block of school buildings is to be erected forthwith for 700 children, The same gentle- man holds the appointment of architect to the Hope School Board, near Wrexham, and plans are passed and tendered for to accommodate 600 childrenin two blocks of buildings—namely, for 250 at Frith, and 350 at Hope. Lonpon.—Messrs. Trollope, of Pimlico, the con- tractors for the construction of the new City Library at Guildhall, are now engaged in taking down the right wing of the Guildhall buildings, prior to its re-erection in accordance with the scheme of improvements which was sanctioned by the Corpora~ tion some time since. These include the construc- tion of a corridor, with an entrance in the wing, from the porch to the new library. The whole of the works are being carried out under the direction of Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect. Renrrew.— The memorial stone of the new municipal buildings in course of erection at Renfrew was laid on Saturday afternoon, with Masonic honours. The buildings will be two stories in height, and surmounted by a massive tower, which rises from thenorth-east corner to a height of 105ft. On the ground floor will be the Council Chambers; an office and private room, which are to be occupied by a bank; the offices and rooms of the Town Cham- berlain, Town Clerk, and officials, and the police- office, superintendent’s room, witnesses’ rooms, prisoners’ cells, &c. Upstairs is the Town Hall, 65ft. long and 41ft. wide, with a ceiling rising to a height of 26ft., and seated with portable forms that can be made to accommodate about 800 people. The archi- tect is Mr. Lamb, of Paisley. S. Brravers.—New schools have just been com- pleted at S. Briavels, Herefordshire, from the designs of Mr. W. T. Allen, of London. The building is of sandstone, pointed with black mortar. The quoins, plinths, and cornices are of Bath stone; the window jambs and mullions of Forest stone. The outer arch of the porch is built of Forest stone, and the inner arch of Bath stone. There is a ventilating turret, provided with a spire, which rises from the centre of the roof. The roof is covered with green and purple slates in bands, and ornamental red ridge tiles. The apex stones of the main building and porch, as well as the buttresses, are Bath stone, and with paving of red tiles. Mr. J. Meredith, of Gloucester, was the builder. ———— CHIPS. Mr. Bailey Denton has been requested by the Local Board of the Borough of Ipswich to prepare a scheme forthe sewerage of that town, with special reference to the ultimate disposal of the sewage. The rumour that the Queen would open the East London Museum is contradicted. It is proposed to form a new street in the City leading from Moorgate-street to Copthall-court. The Streets Committee of the City Commissioners of Sewers brought up a report at the meeting of the Commissioners on Tucsday last, recommending that the carriageways of Lothbury, Bishopsgate-street Within, Leadenhall-street, and Gracechurch-street, be paved with Barnett’s asphalte, subject to certain conditions. The committee also recommended, with regard to the footways in King William-street, from the statue to the bridge, that one side be paved with the Limmer, and the other with the Val de Travers asphalte. The recommendations were agreed to. Walmsley Unitarian Chapel, near Bolton, was re- opened last week, after extensive alterations and improvements under the direction of Mr. Haselden, architect, Bolton. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company pronounce against steel-headed rails, on account of the head separating from the body, owing to a diffi- culty originating in the “pile ” while rolling. They have removed 25 per cent. of all they haye laid down. The sixty-eighth annual exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours opens on Monday next.