Architecture And Archæloogy.

Sheffield , has been laid by Miss Hrith Lydia Shore , of Meersbrook . The edifice is being buiit on a plot of ground adjoining the Crookesroad , and Avill accommodate about 550 peo ] ne . It will be a plain stone building , Avith gallery at one end for the use of the school children ; and the cost will be about £ 1400 . The foundation-stone of " Salem Free Chapel , "

Pembertonstreet , Sunderland , has been laid . The building will be 68 feet by 42 feet , and Avill be capable of accommodating 600 persons . It will be so constructed as to allow of the erection of a gallery at some future time . The material will be bricks with stone dressings . The interior Avill be fitted Avith a fan fight , by AA'hich it will also be A ^ entilated . The Avhole of the seats Avill be open benches and free . Behind the

chapei Avill be a buildmg 40 feet by 27 feet , of two stories , to be used as Sunday school-rooms , capable of accommodating about 400 scholars . The schools -will be so adapted that they can be thrown into the chapel . The total cost will be near £ 1000 .

A school church Avas opened on the 18 th ult ., at Reach , a hamlet in the parishes of Swaffhani Prior and Burwell , Cambridgeshire , and once an important Saxon toAvn . This little place , though within sight almost of the University of Cambridge , and partly in the parish whence its chief reA'emies are derived , and from whence the grand towers of Ely are visible , has been allowed to remain in a state of

utter destitution of secular or spiritual instruction as far as the Church of England was concerned ; and , although tho east windoAV , and gable of a chapel standing on a piece of Avaste ground belonging to the Vicar of Burwell ( i . e ., the University of Cambridge ) , gave evidence of a happier state of things , and suggested a revival of some of the ofd Christian spiritnothing was attempted to be done till the

, present vicar of SAvaff ham Prior undertook the work , and has now the satisfaction of seeing a really handsome little building , in which school can be held every day , and the services of the church celebrated on Sundays . As it has double requirements to fulfil , more care was demanded in the plan and more attention was bestowed by the architect on the details than is usual in an ordinary country

schoolhouse , and the result is highly satisfactory to the parties concerned , and creditable to the designer . A parallelogram , 50 ft . by 20 ft ., is terminated by a central arch of wood tracery , and two smaller ones of clunch , on isolated columns , beyond which is a small apse . In front of one of these small arches is the desk , in the other the pulpit , which is of clunch . Small transepts , 16 ft . wide , contain respectively an infants ' gallery and the fixed desks , while a small vestry and place for the harmonium complete the arrangements . At the

Avest end arc double doors Avith an enclosed looby for caps and bonnets . The fireplaces are at the angles of the transepts , and being four in number are consequently small and unobtrusive . The windoAvs are single and in pairs , Avith pointed heads , except the Avest AvindoAv , Avhich is threelight , under one arch with a pierced cinquefoil over , filled with stained " glass . At the east end also is a stained glass "

AvindoAv representing the Good Shepherd , but exceptthis all the AvindoAvs are in ornamental patterns of green and violet tinted glass . The Avails are of clunch , a material peculiarly good in this district , with red and Avhite bricks in the voussoirs of arches , cornice Avcathering of buttresses , & c . Castcrton stone has been used for the columns , west Avindowand partlin the turret Avhich surmounts the west

, y gable . This contains a bell and is prepared for a clock , so that in the end thc Avhole will be much more complete than tho generality of village schools . Ventilation is provided for at the Avail-plates by several gratings in the Avail beneath the eaves , opened or closed at pleasure inside , Avhile some of thc AvindoAvs also are fitted Avith casements . The total cost , including pulpit , bell , stoves , & c , but Avithout benches and

desks , is under £ 600 . The Rev . Canon SehAwn-Margaret , Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge , and the Rev . H . E . Preston , of Tasburg , Norfolk , took part in the opening services , together with the Rev . J . AY . Cockshot , vicar of Burwell , and the Rev . Thomas Preston , the vicar of S waff ham Prior , to AA'hose exertions everything is due . It may be interesting to add that SwafFham Prior is commonl y called Swaffham-tAvo-Churches , on account of their bcni " tAvo churches in the same churchyard . One of these is now

Architecture And Archæloogy.

a picturesque ruin , Avith the remains of a transitional Norman toAver commencing on a square base and becoming successively octagonal and polygonal , and formerly croAvned with a low spire . The tower of the other church , AA'hieh is the only portion of the old building remaining , is also a curious example of a perpendicular octagonal belfry on a square base .

The foundation-stone of St . Stephen ' s , Spitalfields , was laid a few days ago . The style of architecture of the building is Gothic , . but there is a peculiarity in its structure , inasmuch as it has an apse at the west end similar to that of the German churches , with a porch on one side of it , and a tower on the other . There are no galleries except at the Avest end of thcbuilding , and it is calculated to contain

sittings for 800 people . Adjoining the church there is to be erected a residence for the incumbent . Pontefract NeAv Market Hall was lately opened by Lord Palmerston . The site of the building was formerly a AA aste piece of ground . When the subject of erecting a markethouse vras mooted , this site Avas selected by the corporation and purchased at a cost of £ 1700 . The hail stands on the

north side of the market-place . The building is of the composite or Corinthian order of architecture , and is built of delf or Halifax stone . The actual measurement in the inside is 77 ft . on one side and 80 ft . on the other , Avith a width of 68 ft . The stalls in the interior are placed lengthwise , and divided into two rows . Galleries run round two of thc sides and the upper end , and they Avill be

appropriated on market days to the sale of various articles . They are 60 ft . in length and 10 ft . 6 in . in width . The interior is principally lighted by glass windows in the roof . The pediment bears an inscription , to the effect that the foundatiomstone Avas laid in 1859 by the mayor ( Mr . Richard Moxon ) . A medallion on the centre arch bears a representation of the borough arms , Avith a Latin motto . Above

the kej'stone of the centre arch is a representation of a bull ' s head , and the other two keystones contain other appropriate representations , very well executed . The cost of the erection is between £ 2000 and £ 3000 .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

COSTUME 01 ' A TYLER IX THE LAST CEKTL'KY . The following order of lodge , under date of May 25 th , 1791 , extracted from the minute-book of St . John's Lodge , in this town , No . 562 ( now 348 ) , is worth preservation among your "Notes and Queries , " as a curiosity of Masonic costume . " Resolved that the Tyler be clothed at the expense of the lodge , Avith a blue-coat and Avaistcoat , and

corderoy breeches , thc Avhole Avith yclloAV buttons : a pair of Avhite stockings and a three-cornered hat , and also that he be furnished Avith a hairy cap , to Avear on public occasions , the latter to remain the property of the lodge . " AVas it the general custom of thc period for the Tyler of lodges to Avear a similar uniform , or did the resolution originate in a bright flash of inventive genius on the part of one of

the "Johnians" of thc time . I recollect an aged Masonic friend , IIOAV deceased , AVIIO AVUS formerly a member of the Grand Steward's Lodge , informing mo that , when he Avas a j-oung man , ' the members of the lodge in AA"hich he Avas initiated , Avore as a uniform , a bine-coat Avith brass buttons , bearing either thc name of number of the lodge . When did this practice cease ?—WILLIAM KELLYD . PIOT . G . M .

, , Leicester . THE AV . 3 I . WEARING A HAT AVIIILST PEESIEIXG IX LODGE . In the NcAvstead Lodge , Nottingham , it is customary for the Worshipful Master to Avear Lis hat Avliilst presiding , except during the prayers . I also recollect the late respected Prov . G . M ., Colonel Wildman wearing a three-cornered hat , at a meeting of tho Provincial Grand Lodge . Thc

meaning is obvious , but is the custom merely a local one , or an ancient one generally fallen in to disuse?—WILLIAM KELLY , Leiccster . [ It is still in practice in the Hebrew Lodges . —ED . ] " JIIEEMASOXUY IN THE EOYAL HOUSE GUARDS BLUE . I am unable to reply to the query of your correspondent at p . 308 , respecting the Lodge of Truth , formerly attached to the First Life Guards , but it has recalltd to my recollection