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 May 17, 1872. THE BUILDING NEWS. 403 Huilding Autelligeice, — > CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. Bripuweron Quay.—The Wesleyans of this fashionable watering-place are about to erect a new chapel to accommodate 900 persons on the site of the present chapel, enlarged by the acquirement of four adjoining tenements, &e. The building is to be of white pressed stock bricks, with Whitby stone dressings. The style of the building is Italian. The architect is Mr. W. Botterill, of Hull. Eprypureu.—tThe interior of the High Church, the ancient choir of S. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, is about to be renovated. According to the plan for the present renovation, which has been prepared by Mr. William Hay, architect, there will be a central passage carried up through the choir with parallel passages in the aisles, floored with encaustic tiles. The pulpit is to be of stone, octagonal in form, and resting on a clustered shaft, with detached columns beneath. Beneath the great east window will be a stone reredos, of seven com- partments, with the arches and pediments, &c., richly sculptured. The royal pew will occupy a large space at the westend of the church. The stall ends will be elaborately carved, the whole being con- structed of oak, and executed in the best style of ancient ecclesiastical woodwork. Huti.—On the 9th inst. a new Wesleyan Chapel, with schools, was opened at Hull. The style is Decorated Gothic, and the materials stock bricks with Ancaster stone dressings. Mr. W. Botterill, of Hull, is the architect. The internal dimensions of the chapel are length, 90ft. ; breadth, 47ft.; height, 46ft. The building will accommodate 1,200 persons, and the cost is £8,000. Messrs. W. & J. Hall were the contractors. Kine’s Norron.—King’s Norton Church, having been restored, was reopened on Wednesday last. The tower has been thoroughly repaired. The north aisle has been rebuilt on concrete foundations, and the north arcade also rebuilt, the piers and arches being taken down with care, and the stones replaced in their origina! positions; a lean-to roof has been placed upon this aisle, surmounted by a parapet of the style of the fourteenth century (the date of the north and south arcades). The nave has been re- roofed, the gables have been reopened, and the gable windows glazed. In the chancel a new floor of Maw & Co.’s tiles has been laid, and a small Norman “ low side” window, discovered on the removal of the brick vestry, has been opened. The amount of money expended is about £2,800. Luppineron.—The new Church of All Saints’, Luddington, was consecrated on the Vigil of the Ascension; Mr. J. Cotton, of Birmingham, is the architect, and Messrs. J. & C. Callaway, of Stratford- on-Avon, the builders. The style of the building is Early English, and it is erected of local blue lias limestone, with Corsham stone dressings, and finished internally with trowelled stucco on a lining of brick. The cost has been about £1,170. NewcastLe-on-Tynr.—The newly-erected Pres- byterian Church in Westmoreland-road, Newcastle- on-Tyne, was opened on the 10th inst. It has been designed by Mr. Thomas Oliver, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and built by N. & R. Reed, at a cost of £4,500. The architecture adopted is after the Early French Gothic during the thirteenth century. Accommoda- tion is provided for 850 persons, with room for an additional 100 on hanging seats. The pulpit is of the platform fashion. §. Vieran’s.—The parish church of S. Vigean’s, near Arbroath, was opened on Thursday week, after restoration. The church is one of the oldest in Scotland, dating from the first half of the twelfth century. The whole of the modern incrustations, with the roofs, galleries, pews, and floors, have been swept away; the south arcade, being off the perpendicular, taken down, and the pillars and arches were rebuilt with the old stones. The east gable has been removed to make way for the erection of a small apsidal chancel. A new north aisle, larger than the one removed, has been added, in harmony with the church. A vestry and heating chamber have been provided under the chancel. The walls of the tower have been raised to form a belfry, and are terminated by a corbelled parapet and small house with crow-stepped gables. The horizontal ceiling is replaced by an open roof. A small choir-gallery of an ornamental character is raised high above the arches at the west end of the nave. The chancel is in the form of five sides of an octagon. The style is fifteenth century Gothic, of a somewhat plain type, to suit the character of the naye, the south arcade of which is of that date. The cost of the restoration has been about £3,000. Mr. Anderson, of Edinburgh, was the architect. SHERFIELD-on-LoppEN.—On Ascension Day the parish church of Sherfield-on-Lodden was reopened after partial restoration. The works completed consist of a tower and a spire 96ft. high, the latter covered with oak shingles. A carved figure of S. Leonard, in whose name the church is dedicated, is placed ina niche above the outer archway, and eight- coupled belfry windows finish the tower. The rose window has been removed to the north wall of the nave, and in its place a three-light window has been put in, filled with stained glass. The old font has been replaced by one standing upon a triple base, with eight Devon marble columns surrounding a central one of stone, with moulded bases and carved capitals. The reredos is composed of Caen stone, with Devon marble shafts. In three panels above the altar, are the supper at Emmaus and two at- tendant angels. In the four side panels are figures of the Evangelists. These panels are all Salviati’s mosaic. The architect was Mr. J. West Hugall, of Oxford, and the works have been carried out by Messrs. Wheeler, builders, Reading. Srruck sy Lieurxrmyc.—During the thunder- storm on Thursday week the parish church of Rain- Ham, East Kent, was struck by electric fluid. It is one of the handsomest churches in East Kent, with remarkably fine tower; was erected in 1457; and was struck before, on the 20th of October, 1791. —On the same day the lightning struck the spire of the parish church of Brampton, which is 180ft. high, The fluid displaced 10 courses of stonework on the northern side, or about 15ft.; it also split the spire on the south side. The fluid ap- parently passed over the bells, destroying the wires connecting the chimes with the clock. It is supposed about 40ft. will have to be rebuilt. Several trees in the neighbourhood have been struck.—During a storm which prevailed at noon on Tuesday week the parish church of Mashbury, Essex, was struck by the electric fluid, which set fire to the tower at the west end. The spire and belfry, which were of wood, soon succumbed to the flames, and the fire travelled eastward along the roof of the nave, feeding on the timbers between the plastering andthe tiles. The roof of the nave is entirely destroyed, and some of the fittings damaged by falling débris. Winkxsworru.—The parish church of Wirks- worth, Derbyshire, was reopened on Ascension Day, after restoration. The church has still portions of great antiquity, but the principal part of the build- ing is of the twelfth century. It is a cruciform structure with a nave of three bays, and a total of 52ft. long only. The central tower is supported by massive pillars; the chancel is very fine, and the transepts equally so. It has at various periods undergone great mutilation and strange transforma- tions. At one period it had a finely arcaded tower, the bases of the shafts of which are plainly visible. The richness and variety of the various remains of sculpture, wall paintings, and tiling discovered during the recent restoration of the chancel and transepts, all point to its having been a place of great richness and beauty. It suffered much during the civil wars, but it suffered still more by the barbarisms committed by a gentleman from Southwell, in 1818—21. Under the baneful judgment of that worthy, entire pillars were taken away, and others nearly so; large ad- ditions were taken in from the churchyard and added to the chancel aisles; a gallery was placed in the transept from north to south, the floor was raised a yard above its ordinary level, the whole area being occupied with pews of every conceivable size and inconvenience. The fabric, too, was at that time supposed to be thoroughly repaired. But it has been found during the recent restoration that wherever there had been a crack in the walls it had only been filled with mortar and then whitewashed over. In 1867 two local builders, Messrs. John Webster & James Walker reported to the churchwardens that the church was in a seriously dilapidated condition. It was thereupon resolved to call in Mr. Gilbert Scott, R.A., whose report more than corroborated that of Messrs. Walker & Webster. Mr. Scott having prepared plans for the restoration, tenders were received, varying from £8,000 to £14,000, the tender of Mr. G. W. Booth, of Gosport, being accepted. The contract was divided into two parts, the tower, transepts, and chancel being the first part under- taken, and this was the portion of the work com- pleted and opened last week. New north and south transept windows have been added, and eight new windows have been placed in the chancel aisles. The chancel and transept roofs are of high pitch, with moulded oak timbers, and covered with gray Yorkshire stone slate. The roofs of the chancel aisles are of oak, covered with lead. Some of the walls have been rebuilt with coarse sandstone, and the old rubble walls have been cleaned and pointed. The chancel aisles have been reduced to their original form, and a clerestory, with six cinquefoil tracery windows, has been added to the chancel. The tower has been repaired and fitted with new louvre boards. The floor has been wholly relaid with tiles from Messrs. Minton, Hollins, &. Co.’s, and Messrs. Godwin, of Lugwardine. At present the church is seated with chairs. The second portion of the work, being the restoration of the nave, is now in hand, and Mr. Gilbert Scott advises the elongation of this part of the edifice. The total estimated cost is £10,000, exclusive of heating or lighting. Worcester CATHEDRAL.—The new peal of twelve bells at Worcester Cathedral has been furnished witha set of chiming-hammers, by which simple contrivance the whole peal may be easily chimed for service by one person. The arrangement is the invention of the Rey. H. T. Ellacombe, rector of Clyst 8. George, Devon, who first set them up in the year 1821, at Bitton, Gloucestershire, where they have been used ever since. . BUILDINGS. ArMLEY.—The opening of the new workhouse erected at Hill Top, Armley, for the Bramley Union, was celebrated on Thursday week by a dinner. The designs for the new building, which are by Messrs. C. 8. & A. J. Nelson, architects, Leeds and Derby, were selected from sets of plans sent in by twenty competitors, and the work was commenced in February, 1871. The buildings are broken up into several blocks, but the character of the architecture, which is Gothic, is uniform. The main block, the workhouse proper, is two storeys in height, and has a frontage of 213ft., and a breadth of 47ft. Over the principal entrance, which is in the centre of the block, rises, to the height of about 65ft., a neatly designed tower. This entrances divides the building into two wings, the left of which is occupied by the males, and the right by the females. Flanking the entrance-hall on both sides are the apartments of the master andthe matron. From end to end of the principal block runs a central corridor, from whick the various wards are readily reached. On the ground floor are day-rooms and dormitories for the infirm, and also wards for children, lavatories, and other rooms. On the first floor are other apartments: for the use of the officers, and others for the accom— modation of the inmates. ConGREGATIONAL Memorrin Hart. — The foundation stone of the new Congregational Memorial Hall, to be erected in Farringdon-street, London, was laid on Friday last. The building, which will cost about £30,000, andis to be erected from designs by Messrs. J. Tarring & Son, was illustrated and fully described in the Burtp1nc News of Jan. 12, 1872. HaAstinGpren.—The Haslingden National Schools, built some years ago by Mr. Holmes, of Bury, having been found too small for their work, the architects, Messrs. Maxwell & Tuke, of Bury, have, by lengthening out the two original rooms, and adding new infants’ school-room, class-room, and offices, gained the requisite accommodation. Great care has been taken throughout the work to keep the new works in perfect accord with the original design —a point which too often gets overlooked in altera— tions of this description, Lonpon.—In connection with the Mansion House Station of the Metropolitan District Railway in Cannon-street, Messrs. Spiers & Pond have just opened new and commodious dining and refresh- ment rooms. On the ground floor there is a large refreshment room, with a marble counter 30ft. long. The lower part of the walls are in walnut-wood, and above are glittering mirrors and encaustic tiles, a parquetry flooring aiding the general effect. SmalI serving-rooms and other necessary offices adjoin. The larger and more pretentious dining saloon is om the first floor, and is about 100ft. long. Here walnut is again largely used, the panelling of the walls and the partitions of the dining compartments being formed of this rich-looking wood. A decora- tive frieze runs round the room, bearing mottoes appropriate to dining. The dining compartments will be designated after the names of the various wards in the City. Above this, the principal, dining saloon will be a dining-room for ladies, retiring- rooms, lavatories, smoking-rooms, &e. The whole arrangements have been carried out under the direction of Mr. T. Verity, architect. Lonpon.—The foundation stone of the new Royal Hotel, at the corner of Bridge-street, Black- friars, and the Victoria Embankment, was laid on Saturday week. The new hotel will be one of the most imposing buildings in the City, and one well worthy of its site. It will be in the modern French style, and will replace the present dingy block of building which has served for so many years as the Royal Hotel. The new building will have a front-