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 Ad THE BUILDING NEWS. Jax, 12, 1872, Huilding Intelligence, CHURCHES AND CHAPELS, Destruction oF S. MaAry’s Cuurcn, Man- cHesTer, BY Licurninc.—On Thursday week the above named church was destroyed by lightning. The church, which was only insured for £2,000, was built in 1858, and was consecrated in the following year. The architects were Messrs. Mangnall & Littlewood, and the contracts for its erection were carried out by Messrs. Ellis & Hinchliffe. The edifice was fitted with nearly 800 sittings, and the internal decorations were of a somewhat ornate description. From wall to wall the church measured 87ft. in length by 58ft. in breadth, and it originally cost about £5,000. About five years ago the spire was added, at a cost of £1,530, which brings up the total expenditure upon the church to the amount of about £7,300. Guascow.—The foundation-stone of the new church which the Free Church congregation of Govan are erecting was laid on Thursday week. It is from designs by Mr. D. Thomson, 8S. Vincent- place, and is intended to accommodate 1,100 people, to have a spire rising 150ft., and to possess all the usual modern appointments in the shape of hall, session-house, vestry, ladies’-room, &c. The cost _ will not exceed £6,000. KenninctTon.—Within the last few days Messrs. Booth, contractors, have commenced the work of the erection of the new church of S. John the Divine, Kennington, situate at the end of Foxley- road. It is proposed first of all to erect the chancel, which is to be quite finished, and then to build a temporary nave of brick or iron, the cost of the whole being between £5,000- and £6,000. The church will be Gothic, from a design by Mr. G. E. Street, R.A. Knowstry.—A chantry or memorial chapel to the late Earl of Derby has been added to the north- east portion of the parish church of Knowsley, from a design furnished by Mr. Paley, of Lancaster. The chapel is built of red sandstone, and opens into the chancel by means of three, and into the transept by two arches; the groined roof is of pitch pine. The massive columns supporting the arches are of lime- stone, and the floor is partly of limestone and partly inlaid with tiles. In the middle of the chapel stands the monument erected by the tenantry. Itisin the form of a recumbent statue of the late earl, by Noble, in the finest white marble, and resting on an elaborately-carved tomb of white stone. It repre- sents the late earl attired in his robes of Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The four sides of the tomb will be enriched with the arms of the Derby family. The total cost of the memorial chapel is about £3,000, of which nearly £1,000 has been ex- pended on the statue and tomb, The work has been carried out by Messrs. Burroughs & Son, builders, of this town. Liverroout.—The foundation-stone of a new church dedicated to All Saints was laid at Liverpool on Monday. The church will afford ample accommo- dation for 800 worshippers on the ground floor. The style of the building is Geometric Decorated, which prevailed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The tower, 52ft. high, will be a leading feature of the building, with a broach spire above, Z0ft. high. The church will consist of a nave, 84ft. 2in. by 25ft.; chancel, 24ft. by 22ft. Gin; north and south aisles, 32ft. din. by 11ft. 8in.; north and south transepts, 16ft. Tin. by 27ft. 5in., &c. The contractor for the whole work is Mr. T. Bridge, of Burscough, whose tender amounted to £3,708. Messrs. Wells & Sons, Liverpool, are executing the mason work; and the whole building has been designed by, and is now being carried out under the direction of Messrs. Barry & Sons, Church- street. Mippiessorovuen.—S. Paul’s Church, Middles- borough, consecrated a few weeks ago, has had erected in it a new painted tile reredos. The work has been carried out by the artist, Mr. J. W. Knowles, of York, from a design by Messrs. Austin & Johnson, architects, Newcastle. The general arrangement is an arcade, three panels with gabled canopies of the Decorated style, intersected between and supported at each end by buttresses of stone, which rest upon @ massive stone base moulding. In the centre panel is a large Greek cross, and in each side panel, on a gold ground, is the Agnus Dei and Pelican. TunnrmGr.—The interior of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge Wells, has been recently recon- structed, the whole seated with stained deal benches, the ceilings and walls tinted and chastely stencilled. A raised dais and platform occupy the position of the old pulpit. The building is warmed by means of hot water. The works have been carried out in | avery creditable manner by Messrs. Strange & Sons, of Tunbridge Wells, ata cost of £1,100, under the superintendence of Mr. Chas. Pertwee, architect, Chelmsford. BUILDINGS. Catverton Limes, Bucxs.—This house has been almost entirely rebuilt for the proprietor, W. Cole Daniell, Esq., of Pendal stone dug on the ground, with dressings and quoins of brick and Bath stone, and shafts of Mansfield stone and terra-cotta. The roofs are covered with Nuneaton brindled tiles, with bands of black tiles, red ridges, and wrought iron finial. The new portion comprises atrium, billiard- room, hall and stairs, 24ft. by 24ft.; dining-room, 24ft. by 19ft. 6in.; drawing-room, 24ft. by 19ft. 6in.; bath-rooms, offices, and new bed and dressing-rooms. All the rooms are of large size and height. The bay window to dressing-room and breakfast-room have stained-glass in the lights above transom, containing monograms, &e. The billiard-room is open to the roof, which, like all the internal woodwork, is of pitch pine varnished. It has a floor of encaustic tile by Mr. Godwin, of Lug- wardine. This room forms the hall, and from it an approach is made to the rooms on ground floor and in the chamber floor, by means of a gallery corbelled over all of wrought pitch pine. The whole of the work has been carried out by local labour, the pro- prietor being his own clerk of the works, from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. E. Swinfen Harris, architect, of London and Stony Stratford. Lerra.—The erection of new premises for the Leith branch of the Royal Bank has just been com- menced. The building, which will be plain in design, is to consist of three stories, with a frontage to both streets. A neat portico, situated in the centre of the Bernard-street facade, will form the principal entrance to the bank. Mr. Peddie, of Messrs. Peddie & Kinnear, is the architect. SHApWELL.—On Wednesday week the new school buildings for 8. Peter’s, London Docks, Shadwell, were opened by the Bishop of London. The build- ings are three stories high, and afford accommoda- tion for 600 children, 200 oneach floor. The rooms are 74ft. long, 18ft. wide, and 14ft. high, and a class-room, 19ft. Gin. by 18ft., is attached to each, The exterior walls are faced with best stock bricks, relieved by bands of red and black bricks. All the windows have arches over them in red and malm bricks, with the exception of those to the boys’ school (the top story), which have chamfered stone beads. A projecting parapet runs along the entire length of the building, and from the centre of the facaderises a gabled bell-cot, surmounted by a wrought iron finial, by Richardson, Slade, & Co. In a niche under the bell is a carved stone figure of the Good Shepherd, by Mr. Farmer. The interior walls are all plastered, the doors and windows having red and white brick arches over them. The wood girders over the floor are exposed to view, and are stained and varnished. The contractor for the works was Mr. Ennor, Mr. Whale acting as foreman. The contract drawings were prepared by the Rey. W. H. Lowder, a former pupil of Mr. Butterfield, and now vicar of Alvanley, Cheshire. The buildings have been erected under the personal superintendence of Mr. Bowes A. Paice, architect, of London, who also supplied most of the working drawings. On the previous Saturday the whole of the workmen and others engaged on the works (about fifty in number) were entertained at a supper by the vicar, the Rey. C. F. Lowder. Yarpiey Gorron, NorrHAnts.—A new wing has been added to the Potterspury Union Workhouse, situate in this village, containing two day-rooms and two dormitories, each 52ft. by 18ft. The work is of local red brick, with Bath stone dressings, and stringcourses. The roofs are of Bangor slate, with red ridge tiles, The work has been carried out by Mr. Walpole, of Stony Stratford, from plans approved by the Poor Law Board, furnished by Mr. E. Swinfen Harris, of London and Stony Stratford. > REMAINS OF A CrimEAN CATHEDRAL.—Theruins of the magnificent cathedral of the ancient town of Parthenion have (according to the Academy) come to light. A new road is in course of construction in the Crimea, which passes at the foot of the Aion Dag, through a little eminence which has hitherto attracted no attention. In cutting through this ele- vation the workmen came upon walls. M. Stronkoff commenced excavations at once; the high altar has been laid bare, and a marble slab, which bears an inscription to the effect that the cathedral was built in the fifteenth century, during the episcopate of Theodore, in honour of the holy apostles, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our correspondents. The Editor respectfully requests that all communications should be drawn up as briefly as possible, as there are many claimants upon the space allotted to correspondence.) To OuR READERS.—We shall feel obliged to any of our readers who will favour us with briefnotes of works con- __ templated or in progress in the provinces. q Letters relating to advertisements and the ordinary business of the Paper should be addressed to the EDITOR, 31, TAVISTOCK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, W.C. Advertisements for the current week must reach the 4 office not later than 5 p.m. on Thursday. REcEIVED.—J. B.—G. M.—S. C. P.—J. P. Mi—E. J.—L. G@. —R. G.—W. B. & Co—G. OO B A—T Ht: Oe R. C. Jay. i S. J. Moor.—The conditions for House-Planning Compe- _ tition appeared in the BuILpING News, December 15, _ 1871. See, also, answers to correspondence, &c., page 8, in last number, YOUNG PRovINcIAL.—A few more reasons, and a good many less words, and your letter on the Law Courts might be suitable for insertion. R. H. T.—The Art Furniture Company, mentioned on the cabinet engraving, December 29, is defunct, so we can- not give price. Correspondence. — DILAPIDATIONS.—LAY. To the Editor of the Burtpinc News. Srer,—In reply to the letter you have forwarded to me, I send you answers to the questions it contains ;— Q.—“ Where a lessee has taken out the chimney- pieces originally in the house, and put in the best rooms very expensive ones, is he bound to leave the more costly? or can he by reinstating the original ones be enabled to remove the others ? same question applies also to stoves and expensive kitcheners.” A.—He may reinstate the original, but he must make good all disturbed works. Q.—‘' Is external pointing to front wall and all sides a dilapidation when it has not been pointed since the building of the house, some seventy years ago?” A.—It forms no part of deciding the question of dilapidations. It is immaterial whether the house walls are 70 or 200 years old, or whether they have been pointed or not. The question the surveyor has to determine is—are the walls suffering, and being injured for the want of pointing? If so, he then claims pointing. The kind of pointing he is to re- — quire, where a house has been pointed, is that of the” same sort. Where it has never been pointed then the cheapest kind consistent with good sound work. Q.— Where walls have sunk through drainage being effected into main sewer, must lessee reinstate and make good ?” A.—Yes. Q.—* Would you kindly explain meaning of Table 2, No. 21: Odd as it may appear, it is yet correct that the covenant to paint at end of five years is not acontinuing one. Does this imply that you cannot compel the lessee to paint every five years if he left the premises after ten years, having only painted once ? Could you come upon him for dilapidation or damage for not having painted ?” A.—No, not under this covenant, because it is fulfilled by the painting at the fixed date. You could, I may mention, under the general repairing clauses, take up the question of the state of the paint.—I am, &e., B. Furrcuer. SEWER VENTILATION. Srr,—While admitting that the ventilation of sewers, to a certain extent, is very desirable, it ap- pears to me that a great amount of wild and un- necessary alarm has been recently created upon this subject. Chemists of high standing assert that the emissions from fresh sewage are not injurious until decomposition sets in, and, as in most towns under a board of health authority the sewers are, either by means of pumps or simple gravitation, emptied once at least in twenty-four hours, it follows the gases contained in such sewers cannot be of such a deadly character as many imagine. The argument used for ventilation of sewers is very much based upon the imperfect condition of all kinds of traps, the gases forcing themselves past the water traps, and no doubt this is the case; but if so, then every yard and surface gulley must be to some extent a sewer ventilator and sewer respirator. What is the relative specific gravity of atmospheric air and sewer gas, and will all sewer gas ascend? Hoping to see this matter further pursued in your valuable columns, I am, &e., A Town Surveyor. The | 4 }

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