| Fes. 23, 1872. THE BUILDING NEWS. 161
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” ” The conditions prevailing in this experiment may be regarded as similar to those existing on an ordi- nary midsummer day when the dew point stands at 70 deg.; and on inspecting the table we find that, while the brick absorbs but little moisture, the stone is very hygroscopic, the brown stone possessing this property in a more marked degree than the Nova Scotia. Since warmth and moisture, taken together, are peculiarly favourable to the production of vege- table growths, it follows that brown stone is, by virtue of the larger amount of water it absorbs, more liable to disintegration from this cause than the other substances submitted to the experiment. In the case of the bricks the absorptive power is, as the table shows, equal, and very slight or slow in its action. They are, therefore, superior to stone in this respect. To determine the absorptive power when exposed to conditions similar to those prevailing during a fog, I caused steam from a free opening to play upon them for 3 hours. After cooling for 20 hours they were weighed, with the following result :
TABLE V. Brown stone... 10,000 parts absorbed 147 of moisture. N. 8. stone..... * 110 Red brick . a 127 A White brick... ES 106 as Which demonstrates that under such circumstances brown stone is more hygroscopic than Nova Scotia stone, and, therefore, affords a more favourable nidus for vegetable growths, anda is consequently less dur- able. In the case of the bricks, though the red brick absorbs more fog than the Nova Scotia stone, it is a better building material, since it surrenders its mois- ture with greater facility. The white brick, on the contrary, absorbs less fog than the others, and dries as easily as the red brick; it is, therefore, the most satisfactory of the building materials submitted to examination. —————_>———__ Huilding Intelligence, CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. East Lonpon TaserNacie.—This building, just completed, which is the largest for religious services in the East of London, was opened for public worship by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon yesterday (Thursday). The present building at Stepney-green, seating about 900 persons, haying become altogether too small for the congregation, the committee determined upon the erection of a new and considerably larger building to hold about 3,000. The site selected isin the Burdett-road, close to Bow-road, from which a good view is obtained. Owing to the funds being limited, there has been no attempt at architectural display, convenience and accommodation being alone studied. The elevation in Burdett-road is 131ft. in length, and is composed of Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings. At 9ft. 6in. from the ground there is a string course, from which rises a colonnade of ten Corinthian pilasters,~surmounted by a stone cornice, and at either end there is a square turret, completing the elevation. There are three ranges of windows, the lower ones lighting the basement being 5ft. wide by 8ft. Gin. high, the second tier lighting the ground floor of the same dimensions, and the upper ones lighting the body of the building, being 5ft. wide by 13ft. high with semi-circular heads. The basement contains a spacious school-room or lecture-hall 91ft. 9in. long by 64ft. 3in. wide, with various class-rooms, lavatory, kitchen, and other ac- commodation. The ground-floor is entirely occupied by sittings, with the exception of the platform, in which is the baptistry. The platform measures 20ft. over with asemi-circular front, in the rear of which are the vestries. The pulpit, or rather upper plat- form, is supported by ornamental cast-iron columns with front of open iron work. At the rear of the platform is an ornamental stained-glass window 6ft. in diameter, supplied by Messrs. Heaton, Butter, and Bayne, of Garrick-street. The gallery is a very spacioas one, running all round the building and extending over the vestries, making a total length of the inside of the chapel at this height of 127ft. 3in., and a width of 65ft. The minimum width of the gallery is 16ft. It is approached by four large staircases at each angle of the building, where are also the main entrances both to the ground-floor and basement. The roof is of one span, and the ceiling is composed entirely of matched boarding, stained and varnished, and paneled out where the roof timbers make their appearance; in
the centre of each panel is a circular cast-iron ventilator 4ft. diameter, the centre of the ceiling is flat, and the sides coved and groined over the windows. The whole of the works have been carried out by Mr. W. Higgs, of South Lambeth, at an estimated cost of £11,000 or £12,000. The fore- man of the works was Mr. H. Unicume. Guascow.—S. Joseph’s (Roman) Catholic Church, Glasgow, erected some 21 years ago, has been ex- tended and improved, and on the 4th inst. was solemnly reopened. Accommodation for 250 people, in addition to the original sittings, has been obtained by moving out the fagade to the street line, and the old-fashioned arrangement of lobbies and staircases to the gallery has been entirely swept away. A baptistry and Lady Chapel have been thrown out on the flank of the building with the double objects of convenience and devotion, and to gain support and solidity to the church ; a spacious sacristy adjoining the chancel has been constructed. The works were carried out by local contractors, under the superin- tendence of Mr, Watson, clerk of works, Messrs. Goldie & Childe being the architects. Lreps.—Messrs. Adams & Kelly are the archi- tects of Holy Trinity Church, Armley Hall, Leeds, noticed in our last number. Norrur.eer.—On Thursday week a (Roman) Catholic church and school were opened at the river- side village of Northfleet, near Gravesend. The building is in the Early English style, and has been erected by Mr. Blake, of Gravesend, from designs by Mr. Melton, of the same town. Sutptey.—On Saturday the memorial stone of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel at Shipley was laid. The new chapel, designed in the Italian style, will seat 1,000 persons, and there will be spacious school-rooms underneath. It will cost about £5,000. Stoke Bisrorp.—On Sunday last Stoke Bishop Church, which has been closed for alterations and enlargement, was reopened for Divine worship. By the alterations extra accommodation has been pro- vided for 180 persons. The work has been carried out by Mr. Baker, builder, from the designs of Mr. Norton, the architect. Tue Restoration oF York Munster.—Mr. Street, the architect, has visited York during the past week, and on Thursday the contract was signed with Mr. Rookledge, of Little Stonegate, builder, for the erection of a timber scaffold within the south transept for supporting the roof and for the use of the workmen durirg the rebuilding of the clerestory. The first energies of the Dean and Chapter will be directed to restoring the clerestory and placing the roof in a satisfactory state. This is expected to occupy about fifteen months. Following this will be the restoration of the south front, which will occupy much time and require great care, the origi- nal structure having been materially interfered with in former repairs. Lerru.—The directors of the Original Ragged and Industrial School are about to erect a new school at Leith, from plans by Mr. James W. Smith, of Edin- burgh. The plans for the proposed school show a plain two-storied house, consisting of a main build- ing, flanked by wings. The extreme length will be 88ft. by 44ft. broad. Accommodation will be pro- vided for 200 children—100 boys and 100 girls. Entrance to the house will be secured by doors in the wings. A small playground will be added at the back of the building, and the whole will be en- closed with a substantial wall. —__»—_—__ Socrery or Brsuican Arcuwotocy.—At the meeting of this Society on the 6thinst., Dr. Birch, President, in the chair, the following gentlemen were duly proposed as members of the Society :— Mr. T. H. Christy, Mr. James Collins, Mr. George C. Hale, Rey. Professor Mahaffey. A communica- tion was received from M. Clermont Ganneau, on an “Inscription in Hebrew or Ancient Phcenician characters of the time of the Kings of Judah, dis- covered at Siloam-el-Fokani, near Jerusalem.” In this paper M. Ganneau related the discovery of two incised tablets, executed on the wall of a ruined rock-cut chamber or sacellum, near to the house of the Sheikh of Siloam. The inscriptions were in the Archaic character, now familiar to the archeological world in the famous Moabite stone. Some Christian hermit had, about the fourth century of our era, wilfully mutilated part of the writing, but enough still remained to attest its extreme value as a palxo- graphic record. Portions of the first four lines of the first tablet the author believed to contain the name of the divinity Baal, and to denote a votive dedication to him by a functionary, name illegible, about the period of the later Kings of Judah.
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Correspondence. ae MR. E. M. BARRY AND MR. STREET. To the Editor of the Buirp1ne News. Srr,—I do not think that a correspondence carried on between two architects in the pages of a periodical in the tone of Mr. E. M. Barry's letter to you can conduce either to the promotion of unity and harmony between them or to the honour of their profession. I will, therefore, say but a few necessary words in reply to it. In the first place I am heartily glad that I have been so completely mistaken as to the view Mr. E, M. Barry takes of Messrs. Shaw & Pownall’s report. He say that I am reported to haye said that he persists ‘‘ in considering Messrs. Shaw & Pownall’s report as final and exhaustive,” whereas “the very reverse is the case”! The main difference between us is, then, at once removed ; but in excuse for myself I may observe that I was mistaken, in company, among others, with Mr. Fergusson, who went so far as to say ‘‘Mr. Street did not dare to say to Mr. Barry what he says to me” on the sub- ject of Messrs. Shaw & Pownall’s report. I do not remember whether Mr. Barry showed me his letter of January 20, 1868, but if he did my case is much stronger even than I supposed, for I see that there is nothing in it to which I should take the slightest exception, and there is not word or hint in it about the claim which he made in his letter of February 26, 1868, to be employed as sole architect, and on which I have had to comment. Mr. Barry is mistaken in his statement as to our correspondence at the time of my appointment. I first heard on the 3rd of June, 1868, from a mutual friend, an architect, a rumour that I was to be appointed, and I received the first official notice of the fact on the 8th or 9th of June. Between these two dates the Builder published the rumour, and Mr. Barry wrote twice to me, on the 5th and 6th of June, and I wrote twice to him. Our letters were of the most friendly description, and referred entirely to the cir cumstance of my appointment to this work, and Mr Barry’s to the National Gallery. Mr. Barry writes from Bristol without, I suppose, any opportunity of referring to his papers, and hence,
