A. wee ear '- Fes. 9, 1872.
Duilding Intelligence, —
- CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.
Berrston Hiry. — The Bishop of Ripon, on Mon- day, consecrated the Church of S. Luke, Beeston Hill. The structure has been erected from’the de- signs of Messrs. Adams and Kelly, Park-square, Leeds. The style adopted is Gothic, of the thirteenth century. There is a clerestoried nave, with north and south aisles, a chancel with aisle on the north side, and organ-chamber and vestry on the other side. The roof of the nave is open to the apex. Interiorly, the total length of the church is 110ft. Gin., the width is 47ft. Gin., and the height from floor to ridge is 52ft. The seats afford accommodation to 700. The total cost has been £3,180. Messrs. Weatherley and Rymer, of York, were the contractors. BromsGroye.—A new church is to be erected in Bromsgrove, from the designs of Mr. John Cotton, architect. The architect has chosen the geometrical or early decorated style. There will be an apsidal chancel, with organ chamber and vestries for clergy and choristers, nave and aisles, south porch, and tower at N.W. corner. The tower, with its tapering spire, will be a very striking feature of the new building, the altitude of the spire being about 175ft., the upper part of tower containing the belfry, with richly-ornamented double Jancet lights with louvres for the passage of sound. The easternmost. bay of aisles is slightly projected and gabled in the transeptal form, which gives the church exteriorly a pleasing cruciform appearance. There will be 600 sittings, most of them free, exclusive of the choir benches in the chancel. The church is in- tended to be built with the local sandstone, the walls being lined inside with buff-coloured bricks, relieved with stone strings and bandings ; the dress- ings, arches, window tracery, &c., being executed partly in Bath and partly in local grey sandstone. A basement will be sunk to accommodate the heat- ing apparatus. The system of warmed fresh air will be adopted, ventilators being arranged in the roof to carry off the vitiated air. Limpsrietp.—The parish church of S. Peter, Limpsfield, was reopened on Saturday last, after undergoing a thorough restoration, under the direc- tion of Mr. J. L. Pearson, F.S.A. The restoration of the north chancel had been previously completed at the expense of the Lord of the Manor, Mr. Leveson- Gower, who subsequently offered a munificent sub- scription towards the restoration of the rest of the church, which was estimated to cost about £1,250. The restored church presents many features of interest. Three recesses have been discovered at the east end—one of them immediately behind the site of the ancient altar. On the south side of the chancel, over the piscina, is a smaller recess, and a very narrow light almost on the level of the chancel floor, supposed to have been a lychnoscope. In the course of the work a small bronze censer, said to be of the fourteenth century, was found buried under one of the pews in the chancel. LuGwarpinE.—The parish church of Lugwardine was reopened on Tuesday week after restoration by Mr. J. R, Kempson, of Hereford. The external parts have not been altered more than was found to be absolutely necessary to carry out the design of restoration, the only additions being a vestry on the north and an aisle on the south side of the chancel. The plain arch which separated the chancel from the nave has been replaced by an arch the entire width of the chancel, enriched by very beautiful moulding, 4n keeping with the early work. An arch between the tower and the nave has now been opened, and exposes the west window of the tower to view. The nave and northern transept roofs have been restored, and the roofs of the southern transept, the new chancel aisle, and vestry are all new. The lancet window at the side of the chancel has been restored, and a three-light window has replaced the poor modern window which formerly existed. The tran- sept windows have all been restored, and the little Norman window already described is introduced, as before stated, at the west end of the south aisle. The work has been carried out by Mr. James Bowers, of Hereford, at a cost of nearly £3,000. Saurorp.—A beautiful altar, tabernacle, and canopy have been recently erected in S. Chad’s Church, Salford. The mensa is a fine slab of Caen stone (10ft. 10in. long), supported by six polished Irish red marble columns, with carved capi- tals and richly-moulded bosses in white alabaster, which also divide the frontal of the altar into three compartments. The centre one represents the Last Supper. The tabernacle consists of a metal safe, placed under a yery richly-moulded and crocketed
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arch, starting from clustered shafts and pinnacle, | and pillars of Irish green marble. The door of the tabernacle in porcelain, painted by Messrs. Minton, Hollins, & Co., and representing the pelican in her piety, is surrounded by passion flowers. Immediately above the tabernacle are four angels in white ala- baster marble, supporting a richly-carved octagonal canopy, on the apex of which is a statuette of 8. John the Baptist. The retable is made of Cork red and Italian marble, and the sides of the tabernacle and altar are likewise of marble, highly polished. The work was executed by Mr. Lane. Wo.vernAmpron.—S. Philip’s Church, Penn, Wolverhampton, has been restored from the designs of Mr, Paley, of Lancaster, by Messrs. Highaim, of Wolverhampton, at a cost of £2,000. The chancel has been entirely rebuilt, and the nave lengthened by the addition of two bays, providing increased accommodation for 150 people.
BUILDINGS. Surewspury.—Castle Fields Schools, the new schools for the district of All Saints, have recently been opened by the Bishop of Lichfield. The building consists of an infant schocl, with porch and lava- tory, and a girls’ school and class-room on the ground floor. A square bell-turret, with tiled roof, contains the stairs leading to the upper or boys’ school, which has-also a class-room. The total number of children for which provision is made is about 260. The walls are built of red brick, re- lieved with bands, &e., of white and blue brick, and the roofs are covered with Staffordshire tiles ; wooden frames, mullions, and tracery are used for windows. Mr. Edward Haycock is the architect, and the work has been carried out by Messrs. Bowdler and Darlington for £852. id LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Heavy PENALTIES FoR BrEAcH OF BUILDING REGULATIONS AT NEWCASTLE.— At the Police-court, Neweastle-on-Tyne, on Friday, Miss Margaret Martha Isabella Dunn was summoned, at the instance of the Corporation, for enlarging and altering an existing building according to plans which had not been approved by the Corporation. The building in question is the Royal Music Hall, which has recently been opened to the public. Mr. W. 8. Daglish, who appeared on behalf of the Corporation, said that the charge was laid against the defendant by the Corporation under the 93rd section of the Town Improvement Act, 1870. Miss Dunn was admitted to be the owner of the property in ques- tion; and he would show that she had committed the offence, in enlarging and altering a building, and of deviating from the plan which had been passed by the Corporation. In March, 1871, the defendant sent in a plan of alterations to be made, but for certain reasons of a mere temporary nature connected with insurance, it was referred back. Another plan was sent in, and it was passed by the Corporation; and on that plan there was an open passage between the property occupied by Messrs. Forster & Hara and the defendant’s property, and there was an open yard at the end of the building. That was the only plan which had ever received the assent of the Corporation. It some time after- wards came to the notice of the Corporation autho- rities that the defendant was erecting the building in defiance of the plan and sanitary considerations ; the passage was covered over, and the stage of the singing saloon was erected over what had to be the open yard.. Repeated notices were sent to the defen- dant, but no attention was paid to them. Subse- quently the defendant sent two plans to the Corpo- ration, both of which were rejected; and ultimately a notice was served upon the defendant requiring her to make the erection in conformity with the plan which had been passed; and he was now pre- pared to show that she had not done so. The penalty was £5, and there was also an aceruing penalty of £2 per day. No one could have acted more in opposition to the earnest requests of the Corporation authorities. The building was used as a place of public entertainment, and there should be proper means of ingress and egress. A consequence of the course of coiduct adopted by Miss Dunn was that the insurance of an adjoining property had been raised five times, and the insurance of another building had been refused on account of the great risk, called “the extra risk”; and this had had the effect of damaging the property all round. After hearing the evidence and the reply on behalf of the defendant, the magistrates decided to fine her £4, and 10s. per day for 146 days. An appeal will pro- bably be made to the Court of Queen’s Bench.
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A portrait of Sir Philip Francis, by Lonsdale, has
been lately added by the Trustees to the National
Portrait Gallery in Exhibition-road, South Kensing-
ton. It is (according to the Academy), apparently
the original of the well-known engraved portrait
which fronts the title-page in Mr. Taylor's ‘“ Junius Identified.” 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 ReapeRs.—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. 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 office not later than 5 p.m. on Thursday.
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Correspondence. ——— GREAT ITALIAN ARCHITECTS. To the Editor of the Burryrnc News. Sin,—As my name is attached to the notices of some of ‘the great Italian architects,” in which your correspondent ‘T, H. E.” indirectly states that I have misquoted, or something to that effect, will you allow me a line in reply? His words are, “T think it would be well for writers before they misquote others to satisfy themselves as to what has really been said.” Now, I never trust to memory ; what I stated was the result of reading the report of the Conference of Architects in 1871 very carefully. I have read it again, and find these were the very words (according to the report) of the architect in question, ‘‘ He held that architects should be artists who are ‘born, not made.’ ,It is ridiculous to hope to make men architects by mere education alone.” The whole tenor of the remarks was directed against any “system of architectural education;” and as I have already observed, they were, I think, calculated to do injury to students.—I am, &c., J. B. WAnRtNG. 28, Southampton-street, W.C., Feb. 5, 1872. P.S.—In return, will you permit me to’suggest to “'T. H. E.” that in future he should not make accusations which he cannot substantiate.
WORCESTER SCHOOL BOARD PLANS. Srr,—Having seen in your lastissue Mr. Withering- ton’s protest against my plans, I beg to state that my delivery of plans was a perfectly legal one, as I have duly explained to the Board ; and as it may appear to the profession in this case there was a possibility of a favoured competitor being enabled to see the designs of other competitors before completing his own, I have to observe that no such possibility existed, the plans being delivered all packed and kept in custody of the Board. My plans must obviously have been accepted by the Board on their merits alone, and not from favour, as until very recently only one member of the Board was personally acquainted with me. Many of Mr. Witherington’s remarks are erroneous, but I have neither the time nor wish to enter into detail on these points, especially as the Board are fully capable of adjudicating upon all matters at issue between us.—I am, &., Ernest A. Day. Foregate-street, Worcester, Jan. 30, 1872. [This letter came just as we were going to press last week.—Eb. |
