General Architectural Intelligence.

length , is covered with an encaustic pavement in pattei-ns . The roof in the chancel was made out of the old roof taken from the nave . The benches are of solid oak of some centuries old with tracery fronts , surmounted by carved poppy heads . The roof of the nave is open and of stained oak . The benches have been made of fir , varnished . A window of stained glass at the west end of the tower is the

gift of Mr . Thomas White , of Peasenhall . In addition to the rebuilding of the church , the old tower , which was in a very dilapidated state , has been partially rebuilt ; having been pulled down level with the church , and carried up an extra height of about 3 ft . In this have been placed four new two-light windows , and also four sculptural pinnacles at the summit . A new bell-frame has been madeand the

, bells re-hung . The estimated cost of the whole is upwards of £ 2 , 000 . Bulwick Church , Northants , is being partially restored . The chancel exhibits a melancholy state of neglect , the walls being much discoloured by damp , caused by the accumulation of soil in the churchyard , which nearly reaches to the sills of the windows 011 the south side . In restoring

the walls of the interior , various paintings in distemper have been exposed to view , extending over the whole of the walls of the nave and aisles . Unfortunately the workman was unconscious of the interest that attaches to this

description of Mediasval decorative art ; and , before the architect was made acquainted with the discovery , the paintings were ruthlessly obliterated . Trinity Church , Shrewsbury , has been enlarged . The new addition consists of a chancel with apsidal termination , about 40 ft . long , by 18 ft . wide , and 30 ft . high , with side aisles of two bays each , 22 ft . by 12 ft . One bay , being

reserved for the choir , has the organ ( given by the late Eev . Eichard Scott ) placed in its centre . The arcades have also the prevailing semicircular form , resting upon stone pillars and sculptured brackets . The walls have slender shafts with sculptured capitals , supporting a moulded wood ceiling . The clerestory lights and aisle windows are circular-headed , with deep plain splays . The apse has three

shafted and moulded semicircular-headed windows , into which has been re-fixed the stained glass . Above these are three circular openings , filled with stained glass ,- the centre representing the Saviour of the World in the act of blessing . The side windows represent emblems of the Holy Trinity , with trefoil borders . The end windows of the aisles are also filled with stained glass ; the others are glazed in

the tinted cathedral or rough-tinted plate , in patterns suitable to the generable design . The fittings are generally of stained deal . The floor of the chancel is of figured and plain encaustic tiles .

The school-church on Bedminster Down , in the parish of Bishport , has been opened for divine service . It consists of a room 50 ft . long by 20 ft . wide , with a class-room 16 ft . by 12 ft ., forming a transept , and two porches so arranged that the larger of them can on Sundays be employed as a minister ' s robing-room and vestry . It is intended to use the structure during the working days of the week as a

schoolroom for the education of the numerous children of the district , and on Sunday it will be employed for the purpose of public worship according to the ritual of the Church of England . It is hoped that the promoters will be enabled shortly to add a schoolmaster ' s house in connection with the building . The roof is an open one , plastered between the raftersand covered with red and brown tiles

, in plaster . The window is glazed with ornamental glass in the tracery . The extension is built of lias stone , with freestone dressings , and the whole of the stoue has been hauled to the ground free of expense by the farmers of the parish . The style of the building is Eai-ly Gothic . At first it was intended that it should be perfectly plain , but as it progressed tracery windows , & c , were added .

The old church of South Petherton , Somerset , which for the last two years has been undergoing extensive repairs , has been re-opened . The nave , 60 ft . by 28 ft ., and 40 feet high to the ridge of the roof , has been entirely restored and re-arranged . The perpendicular west window has been filled with- tinted ground-glass . The pattern of the old roof has been followed , and carved bosses placed at all the intersections of the beams and on the wall-plate , from a few

specimens remaining . Tracery has been introduced between the tie-beams and principals , copied from Kingsbury church . The north and south aisles ( each 60 ft . by 15 ft . ) have been newly roofed ( perpendicular work ) , in accordance with portions of the old roofs which have not been destroyed . The south porch has a stone groined roof , with carved bosses and niche , the doorways being restored in the early

English style . The north porch has set over it a parvise , and is now entered by a new perpendicular doorway . Various other repairs , & c , have been effected . The entire cost has been £ 2750 .

Leeds parish church has been re-opened . The whole of the interior has been renovated . All the stalls , pews , and seats have been cleaned , repainted , and varnishsd ; the stone work cleaned , and every trace of pilaster , both on the roof of the transept and on the piers which were whitewashed , has been removed . The walls have been treated with a

patent indurating solution . The effect of this solution , says our authority , is to render the plaster extremely hard , and impervious to wefr—harder even than stone . The capitals of the columns have been recarved , and the foliage deepened ; and in various parts of the church , where the plaster has shown signs of decay , it has been restored . The ceiling has been entirely repainted , grained , and ornamented . lb

is executed in a light-coloured oak pattern . The bosses have been gilded and perforated for ventilation , and a shaft has been carried the whole length of the ceiling within the roof , communicating laterally with the perforations . Improvements have been effected , in the chancel of the vaulting . The mouldings , crockets , and fan tracery have been subjected to the indurating process , and then gilt . The

niches in the arch of the great chancel window have been filled with Caen stone figures of the four Evangelists , life size . The mouldings of the window ai-ches in the chancel have been gilt . The floor of the chancel has been relaid with black and white marble , in diagonal squares . The appearance of this part of the church generally has also been improved badditional liht . The window-sills have

y g been cut about 8 inches lower . Better light has also been gained in the transept by three new windows , which are filled with glass of the cathedral tint , similar to the one on the north side of the pulpit , which was inserted about five years ago . On the south side of the chancel an ornamental memorial window has been inserted , the design of the sculptured uart of which consists of an enriched arch of

several mouldings , with the Tudor rose and leaf running up in a broad hollow . The window is at present filled with rough plate glass , but stained glass will shortly be added . In the ante-chapel , next to the Tennant family ' s memorial window , a new stained glass window has been inserted . The subject illustrates events in the life of our Lord . Five smaller mosaic stained glass windows have been inserted in

the clerestory , and five in other parts of the church . The monuments of the church have been restored . The cost of the renovations ( exclusive of the new stained glass windows ) , the whole of which will be defrayed by subscription , will be about £ 2000 , towards which about £ 1450 has been received » New parochial schools are about to be erected at Crowle , Worcestershire . A desihas been made for tho buildings

gn , which awaits the approval of the rector and other donorr . The design embraces school and class rooms , with residence for master and mistress : there will be accommodation for about 100 children , and a playground attached : there will also be a library over the entrance , for the special benefit of the working classes . The building will have a bell-turret . Mr . Smith , of Crowle , has given a site for the school and

also otherwise assisted the work . The new school built by Lord Wharncliffe , for Wortley , Yorkshire , and the neighbourhood , has been opened . The building is hi the decorated Gothic style . The whole cost is £ 2000 , and is defrayed by his lordship . A house for the schoolmaster forms part of the structure . There are also two porches , class-room , playground , and appurtenances .

Mr . Richard Beamish , F . R . S ., is preparing for publication , Memoirs of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunei , C . E ., to be completed in an octavo volume , with a portrait and other illustrations .