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General Architectural Intelligence.
ment of the plan [ consists of a nave , 90 ft . long and 32 ft . wide , flanked by north and south aisles of equal length , each 14 ft . wide . On the east end is an apsidal chancel 40 ft . long , with two side chapels of equal width to the aisles , and 18 ft . long , for the accommodation of 200 children . It is , as - will be perceived , an unusually large church , its extreme length being 132 ft ., and its breadth 53 ft ., ancl its breadth 53 ft .
, Avhilst its height from the floor of the nave to the ridge of the roof is 53 ft . On the Avest end is a long porch or cloister , extending the whole Avidth of the church , and uniting it with a large and lofty toiver and spire , which , Avhen completed , will attain an altitude of upwards of 170 ft . Oue of the greatest features in this imposing church is the skilful use of those essentially local but unpromising
materials—brick and cast iron , the whole of the Avails of the church and toiver and the internal arches being constructed of the former material , of different colours , arranged in patterns of much beauty , whilst tho nave pins and the small shafts of the screen wall of the chapels and cloistral porch are composed of the latter . Externally each bay of
the aisles is marked by a brick buttress , and has in its centre a two-light window , with brick jambs , and a stone mullion , supporting corbels and caps of stone , ultimately intended to be Carved , aud the Avhole united by arches of moulded and variegated brickwork . This arrangement is surmounted by a corbelled cornice of brickwork , and from each alternate bay of the nave Avail rises a gabled clerestory 1
window , having stone tracery within a spherical triangle of ornamental brickwork . The exterior of the chancel is masked on its two sides by the gables of the side chapels , hi each of Avhich is a three-li ght AvindoAV of similar descripto those of the aisles . Its apsidal end has in each face a single lancet AvindoAV of ornamental brickwork , ivith stone corbels , and at each angle a massive buttresseach intended
, to be capped with an angel holding some of the emblems of the Passion of our blessed Lord . The western front has , as before stated , a long cloistral porch extending across it . This iscoinposeed of an arcade of brickwork , supported ou coupled cast-iron columns , and is intercepted in its centre
by a central dooi-Aray of arched brickwork , having a stone lintel , supported by iron columns in the tympanum , above which it is ultimatel y intended to place a basso-relievo of the Supper at Emmaus—that event being only mentioned in the Evangel of St . Luke . Beyond this arcade , and united to it by a flying buttress , capped by a lofty stone pinnacle , rises the western wall of the nave , pierced by two two-light
windoAvs , having traceried heads in stone , and a large sixfoil rose AvindoAV betAveen them . The whole of the roof is covered Avith blue , green , and red slates , laid in A'arious patterns , pleasingly relieving the usual monotony of a long slated roof . The toiver , Avhich is as yet incomplete , contains in its lower story a double doorway , in the traceries of Avhich it is intended to C : \ rve a bas-relief of Saint Luke ,
ivriting his gospel . Its second story is occupied by deeply recessed two-light windows , to light the singing floor , which is approached by a staircase contained in a circular turret at its south-eastern corner . The third story has three
deeply-recessed single light windows in each a face ; of some-Avhat peculiar but very effective design . Above this is a corbelled cornice of various bricks , from Avhich rise four canopies , supported on stone shafts . The fourth story , at this point , retreats from the square form to that of an octagon ; tho cardinal faces of Avhich are pierced by ivide and deeply moulded louvre li ghts , and the intermediate faces
occupied by smaller ones opening Avithin the angel canopies . At this point the building at present terminates at a height of 80 ft . from the ground , being not quite half its intended altitude . Internally the nave is separated from the chancel by arches of coloured brick , supported by coupled columns of cast-iron , the capitals of which it is intended to clothe with Avrought iron foliage . The chancel is also diiuded from
the nave by three arches—a central Avide one and two smaller side arches , in Avhich are placed the pulpit ancl reading-desk . The side chapels are also separated from its aisles and chancel by an arcaded screen of similar character , so that the east end of the chancel , despite its great length , can be seen from every part of the church . The floor of the chance ] , which is elevated six steps from the nave , is laid with Million ' s tiles .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
KNIGHTS OF MALTA . The subjoined document may be of interest to some of the brethren of this Order , and may therefore claim a space in the columns of "Notes and Queries . " " Loan for six hundred and forty thousand pounds , five per cent , stock , for the service of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem ( commonly called Knights of Malta ) , to be raised by the sale of 5000
bonds , payable to bearer , and bearing interest at the rate of five percent ., per annum , payable half-yearly , without any deduction , at the counting house of Messrs . Hullet Bros . & Co . The Order of St . John of Jerusalem is a Sovereign Order . It lias existed more than 700 years , and is acknowledged by all the powers of Europe . It exercised all the rights of sovereigntypossessed fleets and armies— -named ambasadors—coined moneyhad its flag—levied taxes & c .
, This Order is composed of individuals of the noble families of the different nations of Europe . Its seat of Government was originally Jerusalem , subsequently "Rhodes , and lastly Malta . Buonaparte captured Malta , but Great Britain having conquered the island from the French , it was finally ceded to her by the treaty of Paris in 1814 .
Thus not only the island of Malta , hut also property to the amount of 300 millions of francs , sold during the revolution in France , were lost to the Order . It nevertheless has preserved its political existence throughout Europe , waiting a favourable opportunity to plant its standard in a place of Government . The emancipation of Greece has presented that opportunity . The Greeks reclaim their alliance with the Order , which formerly possessed the bailiwicks of Negropont and the Morea .
Treaties have been entered into , and cesssions made to the Order by Greece . These circumstances have given rise to the present loan of which the following are the principal conditions , viz : The amount £ 640 , 000 , five per cent , stock . The interest to commence from the 1 st . September last , payable half-yearly in London , on the 1 st of March ancl 1 st . of September in each year , without any deduction ,- on forty-four dividend warrants attached to each bond . ;
Two dividends to be retained in the hands of Messrs . Hullet & Co . The loan to he redeemed by a sinking fund in twenty years from the 1 st September 1825 ; but the Order reserves the right to pay it off at SO per cent , on , or before the 1 st of September , 1829 , upon giving public notice to that effect , on or before the 1 st of June , 182 S . As securities for the payment of the dividends , and the redemption of the loan , the Order mortgages the whole of its revenues and estates , present and future , and more especially certain forests
and other real property now existing in France unsold , belonging to the Order , valued at 20 , 000 , 000 of francs ; and of which it will have possession , agreeably to tbe law passed on the Sth of December , 1814 , as soon as the Order shall be re-established in a place of Government , which is now on the eve of accomplishment , with the entire concurrence of the French Government and other European powers . Independent of considerable arrearsthe Order is in receit of a
, p revenue , in the different states of Europe , to the annual amount of 3 , 790 , 760 francs . Besides the annual revenue enumerated , the passages or entrancefees of 4000 knights , now inscribed and ready to be admitted , will amount , upon an average of 3000 francs each , to 12 , 000 , 000 of francs .
The contract provides for the appointment of agents to receive the revenues of the Order , for the payment of the dividends and redemption ; and directs the application of the proceeds to the loan to the objects proposed . The Order of St . John of Jerusalem has no debt whatever . The bonds will bo divided in the following manner , viz .: — Class A , 200 bonds of £ 500 each . „ B , GOO „ £ 200 „
„ C , 4200 „ £ 100 „ 5000 bonds . The first dividend will he paid on the 1 st of March next .. The payments are to be made into the hands of Messrs . Hullett , Brothers , and Co . in the following manner , viz . : — A deposit of 10 per cent , immediately . 10 per centon or before the 15 th of December next
„ , . „ 20 per cent , on or before the 15 th of Jannary , 1824 . „ 26 per cent , on or before the 20 th of February , 1824 . 66 per cent . Discount for anticipated payment will he allowed at the rate of £ 4 per cent , per annum / '
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General Architectural Intelligence.
ment of the plan [ consists of a nave , 90 ft . long and 32 ft . wide , flanked by north and south aisles of equal length , each 14 ft . wide . On the east end is an apsidal chancel 40 ft . long , with two side chapels of equal width to the aisles , and 18 ft . long , for the accommodation of 200 children . It is , as - will be perceived , an unusually large church , its extreme length being 132 ft ., and its breadth 53 ft ., ancl its breadth 53 ft .
, Avhilst its height from the floor of the nave to the ridge of the roof is 53 ft . On the Avest end is a long porch or cloister , extending the whole Avidth of the church , and uniting it with a large and lofty toiver and spire , which , Avhen completed , will attain an altitude of upwards of 170 ft . Oue of the greatest features in this imposing church is the skilful use of those essentially local but unpromising
materials—brick and cast iron , the whole of the Avails of the church and toiver and the internal arches being constructed of the former material , of different colours , arranged in patterns of much beauty , whilst tho nave pins and the small shafts of the screen wall of the chapels and cloistral porch are composed of the latter . Externally each bay of
the aisles is marked by a brick buttress , and has in its centre a two-light window , with brick jambs , and a stone mullion , supporting corbels and caps of stone , ultimately intended to be Carved , aud the Avhole united by arches of moulded and variegated brickwork . This arrangement is surmounted by a corbelled cornice of brickwork , and from each alternate bay of the nave Avail rises a gabled clerestory 1
window , having stone tracery within a spherical triangle of ornamental brickwork . The exterior of the chancel is masked on its two sides by the gables of the side chapels , hi each of Avhich is a three-li ght AvindoAV of similar descripto those of the aisles . Its apsidal end has in each face a single lancet AvindoAV of ornamental brickwork , ivith stone corbels , and at each angle a massive buttresseach intended
, to be capped with an angel holding some of the emblems of the Passion of our blessed Lord . The western front has , as before stated , a long cloistral porch extending across it . This iscoinposeed of an arcade of brickwork , supported ou coupled cast-iron columns , and is intercepted in its centre
by a central dooi-Aray of arched brickwork , having a stone lintel , supported by iron columns in the tympanum , above which it is ultimatel y intended to place a basso-relievo of the Supper at Emmaus—that event being only mentioned in the Evangel of St . Luke . Beyond this arcade , and united to it by a flying buttress , capped by a lofty stone pinnacle , rises the western wall of the nave , pierced by two two-light
windoAvs , having traceried heads in stone , and a large sixfoil rose AvindoAV betAveen them . The whole of the roof is covered Avith blue , green , and red slates , laid in A'arious patterns , pleasingly relieving the usual monotony of a long slated roof . The toiver , Avhich is as yet incomplete , contains in its lower story a double doorway , in the traceries of Avhich it is intended to C : \ rve a bas-relief of Saint Luke ,
ivriting his gospel . Its second story is occupied by deeply recessed two-light windows , to light the singing floor , which is approached by a staircase contained in a circular turret at its south-eastern corner . The third story has three
deeply-recessed single light windows in each a face ; of some-Avhat peculiar but very effective design . Above this is a corbelled cornice of various bricks , from Avhich rise four canopies , supported on stone shafts . The fourth story , at this point , retreats from the square form to that of an octagon ; tho cardinal faces of Avhich are pierced by ivide and deeply moulded louvre li ghts , and the intermediate faces
occupied by smaller ones opening Avithin the angel canopies . At this point the building at present terminates at a height of 80 ft . from the ground , being not quite half its intended altitude . Internally the nave is separated from the chancel by arches of coloured brick , supported by coupled columns of cast-iron , the capitals of which it is intended to clothe with Avrought iron foliage . The chancel is also diiuded from
the nave by three arches—a central Avide one and two smaller side arches , in Avhich are placed the pulpit ancl reading-desk . The side chapels are also separated from its aisles and chancel by an arcaded screen of similar character , so that the east end of the chancel , despite its great length , can be seen from every part of the church . The floor of the chance ] , which is elevated six steps from the nave , is laid with Million ' s tiles .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
KNIGHTS OF MALTA . The subjoined document may be of interest to some of the brethren of this Order , and may therefore claim a space in the columns of "Notes and Queries . " " Loan for six hundred and forty thousand pounds , five per cent , stock , for the service of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem ( commonly called Knights of Malta ) , to be raised by the sale of 5000
bonds , payable to bearer , and bearing interest at the rate of five percent ., per annum , payable half-yearly , without any deduction , at the counting house of Messrs . Hullet Bros . & Co . The Order of St . John of Jerusalem is a Sovereign Order . It lias existed more than 700 years , and is acknowledged by all the powers of Europe . It exercised all the rights of sovereigntypossessed fleets and armies— -named ambasadors—coined moneyhad its flag—levied taxes & c .
, This Order is composed of individuals of the noble families of the different nations of Europe . Its seat of Government was originally Jerusalem , subsequently "Rhodes , and lastly Malta . Buonaparte captured Malta , but Great Britain having conquered the island from the French , it was finally ceded to her by the treaty of Paris in 1814 .
Thus not only the island of Malta , hut also property to the amount of 300 millions of francs , sold during the revolution in France , were lost to the Order . It nevertheless has preserved its political existence throughout Europe , waiting a favourable opportunity to plant its standard in a place of Government . The emancipation of Greece has presented that opportunity . The Greeks reclaim their alliance with the Order , which formerly possessed the bailiwicks of Negropont and the Morea .
Treaties have been entered into , and cesssions made to the Order by Greece . These circumstances have given rise to the present loan of which the following are the principal conditions , viz : The amount £ 640 , 000 , five per cent , stock . The interest to commence from the 1 st . September last , payable half-yearly in London , on the 1 st of March ancl 1 st . of September in each year , without any deduction ,- on forty-four dividend warrants attached to each bond . ;
Two dividends to be retained in the hands of Messrs . Hullet & Co . The loan to he redeemed by a sinking fund in twenty years from the 1 st September 1825 ; but the Order reserves the right to pay it off at SO per cent , on , or before the 1 st of September , 1829 , upon giving public notice to that effect , on or before the 1 st of June , 182 S . As securities for the payment of the dividends , and the redemption of the loan , the Order mortgages the whole of its revenues and estates , present and future , and more especially certain forests
and other real property now existing in France unsold , belonging to the Order , valued at 20 , 000 , 000 of francs ; and of which it will have possession , agreeably to tbe law passed on the Sth of December , 1814 , as soon as the Order shall be re-established in a place of Government , which is now on the eve of accomplishment , with the entire concurrence of the French Government and other European powers . Independent of considerable arrearsthe Order is in receit of a
, p revenue , in the different states of Europe , to the annual amount of 3 , 790 , 760 francs . Besides the annual revenue enumerated , the passages or entrancefees of 4000 knights , now inscribed and ready to be admitted , will amount , upon an average of 3000 francs each , to 12 , 000 , 000 of francs .
The contract provides for the appointment of agents to receive the revenues of the Order , for the payment of the dividends and redemption ; and directs the application of the proceeds to the loan to the objects proposed . The Order of St . John of Jerusalem has no debt whatever . The bonds will bo divided in the following manner , viz .: — Class A , 200 bonds of £ 500 each . „ B , GOO „ £ 200 „
„ C , 4200 „ £ 100 „ 5000 bonds . The first dividend will he paid on the 1 st of March next .. The payments are to be made into the hands of Messrs . Hullett , Brothers , and Co . in the following manner , viz . : — A deposit of 10 per cent , immediately . 10 per centon or before the 15 th of December next
„ , . „ 20 per cent , on or before the 15 th of Jannary , 1824 . „ 26 per cent , on or before the 20 th of February , 1824 . 66 per cent . Discount for anticipated payment will he allowed at the rate of £ 4 per cent , per annum / '