Architecture And Archæloogy.

divided into three bays by the principals of the roof , and is lighted at the east end by triple lancets , on the north side by one , and on the south side by three lancets . These windows are ornamented with banded shafts , and are variously adorned with rows of nail-head and dog-tooth flowers , and the hood mouldings terminate in heads of saints , prophets , and martyrs , and with bosses of foliage .

Below the east window is an arcade of seven trefoif arches , supported on detached shafts , with the spandrils and capitals carved with roses , passion , and other flowers . In this part of the church the floor is raised a considerable height above that of the nave . The roofs are of open construction . Under the tower the system of ornamentation has been designed to culminate . Externallthe church is less

y ornamented than the interior . The roofs are of high pitch , and are covered with Westmoreland slates : they converge to the centre of the tower at the same level , and their gables are finished with floriated ci'osses . Two kinds of stone have been used in the construction of the building —that for the dressings being fight in colour , and the walling something darker .

The foundation-stone of a new Roman Catholic church at Blyth was laid on the 10 th ult . The building stands upon an opeii site close to the railway station , and consists of a nave measuring inside 115 ft . long and 36 ft . wide , terminated by an octagonal apse , the centre of which rises in a highpitched gable , filled with a traceried window . There are north and south transeptswith large wheel window's in

, each ; a porch , and a bell-turret . The roofs are open and high , after the manner of the French churches , and the style is Early Decorated . The church of Folkingham , Lincolnshire , has been restored and re-opened . The nave has been rebuilt . The

clerestory walls are cased with ashlar , and covered with an open timber roof of the Perpendicular stylo , the brackets of which rest upon carved corbels , representing various leaves and flowers . The side roofs are in the Decorated style . The greater part of the north aisle wall has been rebuilt and also cased with ashlar . The pulpit is of carved oak . In the east end of the chancel a stained four-light

windowhas been placed , representing the birth , crucifixion , resurrection , and ascension of our Saviour . A chapel of ease to the parish church of Chieveley , has been in course of erection at Leekhampstead since March of last year . It is dedicated to St . James the Great , and has just been consecrated . The church consists of nave and chancelwith aisle on south sideand small vestry . It

, , will accommodate about 250 persons . The internal dimensions are—the nave , including chancel , 70 ft . long bj- 22 ft . wide , and the aisle 8 ft . wide . The style of the church is Geometrical Decorated . Tho walls are built externally with brick quoins at tho angles , filled in between with flints crossed with brick bands , and internally faced w-ith bricks of different colours , formed into patterns . The windows

and floor-dressings are of Bath stone . The windows in the chancel are filled with stained glass . The roof is plain open timbered , and is covered with tiles laid in patterns . At the junction of the nave and chancel rises a timber-frame bellturret . The body of the church is filled with open seats , with bench ends . There is an open timber porch on the south side . The vestrywhich is about 9 ft . b 13 ft . is on

, y , the north side of the chancel . A stained glass window over the altar has been placed there through the efforts of the Misses "Witts ( daughters of the churchwarden , Mr . E . Witts ) and a few friends . The whole of the timber is stained . The entire cost has been about £ 1200 .

The scaffolding of St . Lawrence Church spire , Southampton , has been removed . In building the spire it was considered advisable not to adhere to the original intention to build it with brick , tho committee having decided in favour of stone ; but both spire and tower have been curtailed of the dimensions intended by the design . The spire is relieved btho introduction of fmialled gablets and trefoil

y openings . The decayed stonework will bo renewed ; but the committee want funds to have the brickwork cleaned and pointed , which is much required . The amount expended in completing tho tower and building the spire has been about £ 500 : tho estimate to renew the decayed stonework is between £ 80 and £ 90 .

The church of All Saints , Winterbourne , has been consecrated , after having been in use for two years . The church consists of nave , chancel , and north aisle It is erected on the elevation of Winterbourne Common , through the liberality of the family of the Rev . E . W . Greenstreet , the clergyman who officiates in it . It will accommodate 250 , all free .

All Saints' Church , East Clevodon , has been consecrated . The edifice is situated about a mile from the Clevedon railway station , and from Clevedon Court , the country seat of Sir Arthur Elton , Bart ., through whose family the church has been built , and it is known by the residents as Lady Elton's Chapel . The style is Early English . Sitting accommodation is provided for 400 mostlfree . The total

, y cost of the building will be short of £ 2 , 500 . There is a project afoot for erecting a memorial of the late Archdeacon Hardwick , who was killed in the Pyrenees last year . It will take the form of a window in Great St . Mary ' s Church , Cambridge , and a partial restoration of the church of Slingsbj ' , Yorkshire , the Archdeacon's native village . A few ladies in Bromsgrove , Worcestershire , have formed

themselves into committee to collect funds for the purpose of filling the east window of the church with stained glass . The cost will be about £ 300 . A stained-glass window has been placed at the west end of the south aisle of St . Peter ' s Church , Derby , over the place occupied by the font . It consists of six incidents from the life of John the Baptist ; the central subjects representing him preaching in the wilderness ; and the Baptism of Christ .

The new Church of England schools at Bramford , Suffolk , have been opened . These schools have just been erected at a cost of £ 725 . The building is erected on a piece of land , the gift of ' Sir G . Broke Middleton , on the north side of the churchyard , and abutting on the public road . The school room is 48 feet long by 18 feet wide . At the upper end is a glass door , opening into the class-room , which latter is 21

feet long by 15 feet wide . Accommodation is provided for about 150 children . The warming is effected by two open fire-places in the school , and one in the class-room ; and ventilating by means of a lantern in the roof . At the end next the road is a house for the teacher , consisting of parlour , kitchen , scullery , and three bedrooms . The walls are built of rubble stone , faced with cracked flints , and red brick

quoins to the exterior angles , and round the door and window openings . The character of the building is plain , effect being obtained by the grouping of the gables and other features requisite for the arrangement of the plan . The principal front consists of the school as a centre , with two porches giving separate entrances for hoys and girls , and three gabled windows between them , the wings being

formed by the house at the noth side and the class-room on . the south , in the gable of which is jilaced the " memorial stone . " On Thursday , October 2-1 , the principal stone of the new mansion in course of erection by Mr . Charles Higgins , on his recently-purchased estate at Stowc , was laid . Boycott Manor Farm formed a valuable part of the Stow e property , and was bought , together w ith some adjoining land , by Mr . Higgins , when the Stowe sales took place a year or two since .

TEE SMELL or CHINA . —Every country has a colour or odour peculiar to it . Italy is deep blue , from the transparent water of her lakes , bays , and seas , to the very clouds of the sky ; llussia smells of leather ; England of coal ; in Africa the sand , the sky , and the natural productions , are all yellow ; and China smells of musk from one end to the other . The moment you set your foot on any

corner of the Celestial Empire , this abominable smell lays hold of . you and never leaves you . I have , in the end , got accustomed to it—got used to eat in musk and to live in musk . For what could I do ? A man must make up his mind to what he is surrounded by ; but I have nevertheless frequently cursed this detestable production . I endeavoured to discover the cause of this particularly , and I found that it was owing to the general use made in China of tho skin and the hair of the musk deer of Thibet . — Letter from China