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Our Architeotural Chapter,
/ registrar ' s rooms , residences for the president and dean of college , rooms for students , steward ' s residence , laboratories , &^ many other appendages of the institution . The grounds are extensive , and laid out as a park , except about forty or fifty acres , which are to he formed as botanical , agricultural , and horticultural gardens . The surface is broken , and even the site of the university stands on the ed ^ e of a ravine . Altogether the
appearance and character of the buildings are picturesque , and it will be , when completed , one of the many remarkable buildings on the American continent , where so ranch more attention is now being paid to architectural eflcect . A proposition having been made to appropriate the- site of the bailey of the old castle of Colchester for the new market , this has caused some remonstrancey as it is now an open green free to the public , and half enclosed by private gardens . It has likewise some historical associations .
Mr . G . G : Scott ' s grand chapel for Exeter College , Oxford , is attracting attention . Although it is only 100 feet long , by 30 feet wide , its inside height is 50 feet , and its external height M feet j it will be inagnificeritly decorated with fifteen stained glass windows ; besides a wheel window . A wooden turret covered with lead is to be raised , which will rise to a height of 150 feet . The style is the decorated gbthic . The building will be completed next spring . Mr . Scott ' s ' -Remarks on Secular and "Domestic Architecture , " in which he advocates gothic for eveiwthing ; have reached a second edition * ,
In consequence of the arrangements for warming St . Paul ' s Cathedral for public service involving a scheme for using one of the air shafts in the main structure as a flue , some opposition has been given to it , as calculated to endanger the building ; and we certainly consider that every precaution should be taken . The new schools at Southall will cost £ 8 , 691 . It is worthy of remark that the highest tender was £ 10 , 795 , and several builders tendered at a like rate . The saving by public tender in this case is most probably not xmder 25 per cent . A new church is to be built in Baldwin ' s-gardens , GrayVinnlane , at the sole cost of Mr . J . G . Hubbard , a Bank director .
A OA ^ toin and astonishing Corporation " . —la 1 . 833 tho late Becord Comlnissionera issued circular questions to the municipal corporations of England and Wales , requesting various information ; among-Mich questions was tho following : — " Do any remarkable customs prevail , or have any renimliablo customs prevailed within memory , in relation to tlio ceremonies accompanying the choosing of corporate officer , ^ annual processions , feasts , kc , not noticed in the printed histories or accounts of your borough ? Describe thou ^ if there bo such . " To tins question tlio borough of Ofiipponham , Wilts , replied as follows : —" The Corporation dine twice a year , aud pay for it themselves ! — Notes and Queries ,
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Our Architeotural Chapter,
/ registrar ' s rooms , residences for the president and dean of college , rooms for students , steward ' s residence , laboratories , &^ many other appendages of the institution . The grounds are extensive , and laid out as a park , except about forty or fifty acres , which are to he formed as botanical , agricultural , and horticultural gardens . The surface is broken , and even the site of the university stands on the ed ^ e of a ravine . Altogether the
appearance and character of the buildings are picturesque , and it will be , when completed , one of the many remarkable buildings on the American continent , where so ranch more attention is now being paid to architectural eflcect . A proposition having been made to appropriate the- site of the bailey of the old castle of Colchester for the new market , this has caused some remonstrancey as it is now an open green free to the public , and half enclosed by private gardens . It has likewise some historical associations .
Mr . G . G : Scott ' s grand chapel for Exeter College , Oxford , is attracting attention . Although it is only 100 feet long , by 30 feet wide , its inside height is 50 feet , and its external height M feet j it will be inagnificeritly decorated with fifteen stained glass windows ; besides a wheel window . A wooden turret covered with lead is to be raised , which will rise to a height of 150 feet . The style is the decorated gbthic . The building will be completed next spring . Mr . Scott ' s ' -Remarks on Secular and "Domestic Architecture , " in which he advocates gothic for eveiwthing ; have reached a second edition * ,
In consequence of the arrangements for warming St . Paul ' s Cathedral for public service involving a scheme for using one of the air shafts in the main structure as a flue , some opposition has been given to it , as calculated to endanger the building ; and we certainly consider that every precaution should be taken . The new schools at Southall will cost £ 8 , 691 . It is worthy of remark that the highest tender was £ 10 , 795 , and several builders tendered at a like rate . The saving by public tender in this case is most probably not xmder 25 per cent . A new church is to be built in Baldwin ' s-gardens , GrayVinnlane , at the sole cost of Mr . J . G . Hubbard , a Bank director .
A OA ^ toin and astonishing Corporation " . —la 1 . 833 tho late Becord Comlnissionera issued circular questions to the municipal corporations of England and Wales , requesting various information ; among-Mich questions was tho following : — " Do any remarkable customs prevail , or have any renimliablo customs prevailed within memory , in relation to tlio ceremonies accompanying the choosing of corporate officer , ^ annual processions , feasts , kc , not noticed in the printed histories or accounts of your borough ? Describe thou ^ if there bo such . " To tins question tlio borough of Ofiipponham , Wilts , replied as follows : —" The Corporation dine twice a year , aud pay for it themselves ! — Notes and Queries ,