Architecture And Archæology.

chancel , 28 ft . long , by 16 ft . 4 in . wide , with organ chamber and vestry added , as a kind of continuation of the aisle , alongside of the chancel . The south wall of the nave and the east end of the chancel are 2 ft . 9 in . in thickness , and all the other walls are 2 ft . 6 in . thick . There are a south porch aud a circular tower at tho west end of the church . In this case the architect has seized upon a local architectural

peculiarity , Snailwell , Risby , and Little Saxham being in the immediete neighbourhood . Attached to the tower , in tho angle between it and the church , is a staircase to the ringing floor , which is also circular , and shows as such externally . The diameter of the tower at the ground level is 20 ft ., the walls being 4 ft . thick ; and in its elevation it is divided into three stages ; the lower ( open to the church , and eventually

to be groined in stone ) serving as a baptistery . The intermediate stage is the ringing-floor , which is only distinguished outside by the narrow windows which light it . Above this story is a set-off , upon which , when the tower is finished , will stand the bases of a series of columns aud arches surrounding the belfry-stage . The belfry wmdows will be single lights , four in number , and facing the cardinal

points . A corbelled cornice and parapet complete the design of the tower itself , which is intended to be crowned with a low conical roof , having four lucarnes , and covered , like the rest of the church , with tiles . Amongst the principal features of tho church must be named the east window , which is of three lights , set in a thick wall , and moulded and shafted , the shafts within being of Purbeck marble , and

having carved foliated caps . In the head of the window are three circles , two of which are cusped with sexfoils , and one with a cinqfoil . The south windows , both of nave and chancel , are all of two lights , of the same character as the design of the east window . The west window of the aisle is also similar ; but the other windows , being under lean-to roofs , are less important in size and appearance . The tracery of

these windows is that designated by Professor Willis as plate tracery ; and the style of architecture is of the transition period of the early English to the decorated . The seats are of open framing , —in the nave of red pine , and in tho chancel of oak , a large proportion ( 163 , including seats for children ) being free and unappropriated . The total accommodation is about 231 sittings . Thewalls are , throughout , of flint , with bandings and dressings of Aucaster stone .

The New Church of St . Peter ' s , Groat AVindmill-street , St . James ' s Westminster , was consecrated the 12 th inst . The west front alone is visible , it occupies the S | : ) ace of three houses on the east side of the street . The central feature is a triple-arched porch supported on massive circular columns , two deep , with elaborately carved capitals . Right and left under this porchway , doors communicate

to iobbies inside of the church , which form , as it were , wings to the exterior of the building . These lobbies are lighted by lancet windows on the west front at the sides of the porch-arches , and tho space under the porchway is pierced by three similar windows to light a portion of the church under the western gallery . There are hood-moulds over the arches terminating in carved heads . A stringto

, be hereafter carved , runs unbroken through the front , over the arches and side windows . A lofty gable rises over the central portion of the front , which is pierced by a large and handsome decorated four-light window . There is a splay above the string in a line with the weathering of the first state of the buttresses which flank the window ; but which are almost flush with the lower portion of the front .

This splay roofs the porch , and a considerable degree of light and shade by means of it is most dexterousl y introduced , although subordinated to the dark mass produced by the archway itself . The mouldings of the gable are richly carved ; pinnacles surmounted the buttresses , with sharply cut , well-designed , crockets . A parapet is continued over the wings , broken only by the crocketed gables which

enclose the side lights . Octagon turrets are squeezed in at the extremities of the front over the gallery staircase ; the }' , wo think , rather mar the effect of tho elevation , stuck , as they appear to be , against the dirty brick walls' of the adjoining houses which overshadow them . The proportions of the mouldings throughout are vigonrously designed , and the ornament most judiciously introduced . On entering J

the church by either of the side entrances in the porchwaji , wo find ourselves in a lobby enclosed by deal stained partitions , with the angles boldly chamferred . These lobbies occupy each a fifth of the width of the church , and a staircase from each of them conducts us to a gallery over the western end , supported on fir chamfered story posts , with . , brackets projecting on the front and sides . The gallery

front is quite plain . The church is somewhat about 100 feet long by nearly 50 feet wide . The nave is 24 feet -wide from centre to centre of the columns . There are five ba ; js 3 in the nave . A half-octagon apse forms the chanceL It is sufficiently large for every practical as well as artistic purpose , and not too large , as the chancels are frequently made in modern Gothic churches . The nave columns are circular ,

Dwarf columns , with red Mansfield shafts , resting on corbels , project from them at about three-quarters of their heights ancl support the inner mouldings of the arches . These corbels consists of heads , and thoy are splendidly carved , as indeed , are the capitals of all the columns . The hoorlmoulds of the arches likewise rest on carved heads . It is

rather a novelty to see the hood-mould repeated now-a-days in internal work . It gives hero great richness to the surface ; the abundance of heads would create monotony if in were not for their diversity and great beauty . Like the capitals throughout , they are all different . The aisles are narrow ; but breadth is gained to them by building % hsz exterior wall on tho outer side of the buttresses . TkegB

buttresses are skilfully fashioned on tho inside , aud whafi with splays and the columns , resting on corbels , which sapport the aisle arches , considerable picturesqueness is given to the walls . The inner mouldings of tho chancel-arch are likewise carried on red Mansfield shafts , supported in this portion by long foliated corbels . The outer moulding terminates as usual on sculptured heads . The roof of ike

apsed chancel is . timber , the ribs converged to the centra , where they are united by a carved boss . The ribs rest on red Mansfield shafts , with Bath stone moulded belts , carved capitals , and bases . There is a decorated window of two lights , with a cinque-foil between them , in each bay . A blank arcade lines the lower portion of the chancel under tho windows . Three stone steps lead up to the altar . Tho vestry is at the east end of north aisle , and a memorial window of stained glass is fixed ovor the doorway leading to it . A tower , we believe , will , at some future time , occupy

a corresponding position on the other side , that is , be 3-eM the east wall of south aisle , over tho doorway , in which there is also a similar stained glass window to that on the other side . The spandrels between the nave arches ' contain panels which will , we suppose eventually be sculptured . The clerestory windows are a couple of lancet windows in each bay divided on tho interior by a detached red shafted

column with carved cap and base . Tho roofs are equall y well managed in the nave , the aisles , ancl the chancel-There are two principals to each bay in the former . Every alternate one is stopped by a sort of carved hammer-beam on a level with the wall plate ; the others descend between , the clerestory windows . There aro circular carved bosses at the apex of all . The feet of tho principals in the aisle

roofs have curved pieces attached to them to follow the "line of the arches which spring from tho buttresses to the nave columns . There is a small gallery with a capitally designed front—intended most probably for the organ—recessed southwards from tho easternmost bay of south aisle . The benches throughout are of deal , stained and varnished . Thoy are simple but in excellent character . The whole building is faced with Bath stone , internally as well as externally , and ! the church is alone worth a visit , by reason of the beauty of the carving so profusely scattered over it .

CKIXOMXE SEEEVES . —Crinoline is extended to another ptirpose besides petticoats , and we liave now crinolines for our arms . Under sleeves made in the same manner as the petticoats , small at inn wrist , and increasing in size towards the middle of the arm , ami ! diminishing again towards the upper part , are being mamifactvcred . They are cruite a novelty , and are likely to prove a very useful invention for keeping large putted net and muslin sleeves frora getting rumpled , which they are very likely to do under the large shawls and mantles which are so much worn . —EnglisJii ? ouiai > Jn Domestic Magazine .