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Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR ARCHITEOTURAL CHAPTER ,
Thebe will he a vacancy at the new year in the post of librarian to the Royal Institute of British Architects . Candidates must apply before the 13 th inst * The meetings of the Institution of Civil Engineers hegan on Tuesday , the 9 th , and will be continued weekly till the 7 th December , and resumed on the 11 th January .
Bro . P . L . Siinmonds of the South Kensington Museuni , has in hand an important statistical work on the trade and commerce of the city of London , a work as yet untouched by any sta ^ ician . Th plan embraces descriptions and statistics of building materials ahd building trades . We trust that those of our readers who can will contribute to this valuable work .
Bro . Edmund Woodthorpe is reconsbructing the front of Masons ' Hall , now used as a tavern . To his great regret , the tavern keeper has had the whole building of the hall painted of a light colour , and the carved arms of the Masons' Company removed . There were some old pictures of saints formerly in the hall , which added to its quaint appearance . Except the high ceiling , with its old plaster decorated
cornice , there is nothing now to distinguiwsh the hall from any common tavern room . The three gas lights are not at all in keeping . The Masons' Company , at the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the last century , included , among its members , several of the Wardens and leaders of the Masonic Lodges , and in this hall many of them have met and dined .
Olothworkers' Hall is in an advanced state , and will be opened next year . This will be a new ornament to the city . The city architect , Mr . J . B . Banning , was busy during last week in fitting up and decorating Guildhall for the Lord Mayor ' s inauguration dinner ; the artistic superintendence of all such celebrations
held in the hall or city buildings being a part of his duty . In like manner the Grand Superintendent of Works should be called upon , as an architect , to superintend the fittings of the Lodges for any celebration . Great benefit would be derived from such assistance , and a new character would be given to installations , Grand Lodge meetings , and other festivities .
Under the Grand Orients of France and Holland , an individual Lodge can have an architect as an officer , whose duties are to attend to the Lodge buildings , for many Lodges have buildings of their own , and to Bxiperintend the fittings for the several degrees . The architect ranks next to the Treasurer , and before the Ambassador , Master of Ceremonies , and Master of Music . Where an English Lodge has its own buildings as the Leigh Lodge , for instance , it would be well to have an architect appointed . Among the officers of the foreign
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR ARCHITEOTURAL CHAPTER ,
Thebe will he a vacancy at the new year in the post of librarian to the Royal Institute of British Architects . Candidates must apply before the 13 th inst * The meetings of the Institution of Civil Engineers hegan on Tuesday , the 9 th , and will be continued weekly till the 7 th December , and resumed on the 11 th January .
Bro . P . L . Siinmonds of the South Kensington Museuni , has in hand an important statistical work on the trade and commerce of the city of London , a work as yet untouched by any sta ^ ician . Th plan embraces descriptions and statistics of building materials ahd building trades . We trust that those of our readers who can will contribute to this valuable work .
Bro . Edmund Woodthorpe is reconsbructing the front of Masons ' Hall , now used as a tavern . To his great regret , the tavern keeper has had the whole building of the hall painted of a light colour , and the carved arms of the Masons' Company removed . There were some old pictures of saints formerly in the hall , which added to its quaint appearance . Except the high ceiling , with its old plaster decorated
cornice , there is nothing now to distinguiwsh the hall from any common tavern room . The three gas lights are not at all in keeping . The Masons' Company , at the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the last century , included , among its members , several of the Wardens and leaders of the Masonic Lodges , and in this hall many of them have met and dined .
Olothworkers' Hall is in an advanced state , and will be opened next year . This will be a new ornament to the city . The city architect , Mr . J . B . Banning , was busy during last week in fitting up and decorating Guildhall for the Lord Mayor ' s inauguration dinner ; the artistic superintendence of all such celebrations
held in the hall or city buildings being a part of his duty . In like manner the Grand Superintendent of Works should be called upon , as an architect , to superintend the fittings of the Lodges for any celebration . Great benefit would be derived from such assistance , and a new character would be given to installations , Grand Lodge meetings , and other festivities .
Under the Grand Orients of France and Holland , an individual Lodge can have an architect as an officer , whose duties are to attend to the Lodge buildings , for many Lodges have buildings of their own , and to Bxiperintend the fittings for the several degrees . The architect ranks next to the Treasurer , and before the Ambassador , Master of Ceremonies , and Master of Music . Where an English Lodge has its own buildings as the Leigh Lodge , for instance , it would be well to have an architect appointed . Among the officers of the foreign