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the Jewish ritual . The glimpse of sky , visible through it , is meant annually to typify the wilderness where they sojourn forty days . The synagogue itself is not sufficiently advanced to enable us to judge of its internal effect . Galleries carried on iron columns will run round three sides ofthe apartment , ancl iron columns above them , with arches
over , will support the flat-panelled ceiling . At the cast-end the apsed sanctuary will bo situated , and behind it a cupboard for the sacred scrolls . On the floor of the synagogue there will bo seats for tho men , and a reading-desk for the officiating priest in the midst of them . The exterior , though well worked out in all its details , and with much originality of design , bears little evidence of the purpose to
which it is to be devoted . The carving of the capitals is well executed . There is sufficient variety in the design to make it picturesque , without enough to destroy its regularity . It is composed of a centre and two wings , with the minister ' s house added at the east-end . The western wing is finished at the top by sloping cornices with trusses , and the eastern wing is carried hiher upand unites with a dwarf
g , tower and spire . Nearly all the windows are slightly horseshoe shape , which gives the building a tinge of Byzantine character , and there is a faint indication of the same quality in the incised ornament on the arch of the tower . Otherwise the building ivould appear to belong to the German or Italian-Gothic stylo , although occasional features show modern modifications of it , as in the outlines of the trusses
under cornices , and the brick keystones to alternate brick and stone voussoirs . The minister ' s house has a bay window , with stone pilasters and carved caps and trusses to carry the projecting square roof . Tho upper windows are in two lights , divided by elegant stone columns , and the dormer light above slightly projects from , the surface of the main wall . The entrance to the minister ' s house is by a plain
archway , a rounded opening in a pointed arch , witn alternate brick and stone voussoirs . All the arches are of the same shape , and all similarly ornamented with the two materials . The main entrance is by three arches having the same shape —semicircular openings in pointed arches . They are carried by coupled columns and pilaster and elaborately carved caps ; a small gable surmounts the centre arch , and a
pierced battlement the side ones . The central portion of the front is thence recessed , and is pierced by two double light windows , with stone columns dividing them . A pierced battlement on this wall joins the cornice of the western wing . The tower , occupying the eastern wing , has angle stone columns and a horse-shoe arch springing from tho top of them . The arch is filled with stone panels partially pierced
for light , and an incised ornament enriches the face of the freestone arch . A mingled brick and stono corbel table bears the cornice , ancl thence springs the ornamental slate spire , with an iron finial at the apex . The first-floor windows in both wings are in three lights , with the same characteristics as the other opening . In the wings and porchway bands of red brick , two course deep , intersect- the yellow brickwork , of which the building is mainly constructed .
The new cemetery at Great Warlcy , a recently-formed ecclesiastical parish , has been consecrated by the Bishop of Rochester . Tho cemetery is situate on the western side of the road leading from the Brentwood station , and adjoins the grounds of the County Lunatic Asylum . There arc but few dissenters in the parish , so that bnt ono chapel has been built , the plan of ivhich comprises nave , chancel , and
vestry , the style being the Early Decorated . The chancel has a three-light window , with atrefoiled circle in the head , over the entrance is a low-pointed arch , surrounding a circle filled with trefoils and quatrefoils . The roofs arc open , the floors paved with black and red tiles , ancl the benches aro placed stall-wise . A bell gable surmounts the chancel arch . The entrance to the ground , which is flanked by a lodge , for
the cemetcry-keepcr , consists of a low screen , surmounted by ornamental iron-work , and has gate-piers , with tall pyramidal terminations ,- the gates are of oak-, the upper panels being filled in with ornamental iron-work . Tho buildings and walls at the entrance are constructed of Kentish rag stone , with dressings of Anc-aster stone . Tho church recently erected at Bodelwyddan , has been consecrated by the Bishop of St . Asaph . ' The foundationstone was laid on the 21 th Juiv , 1856 , and the church has
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been erected at the exclusive cost of the Dowager Lad y Willoughby do Borke . Tho site selected is an eminence b y the north gate of the avenue leading to the mansion of Bodelwydclan , the scat of Sir Hugh Williams , Bart ., and commands a view of the picturcsqup vale of Clwycl . The whole cost of the erection is £ 22 , 000 .
The parish church of St . Pagan ' s , near Cardiff , has been reopened by the Bishop of Llandaff . The church ivhich has now been restored is dedicated to St . Mary . The work of renovation commence in 1 S 59 . So far had decay advanced , that little short of £ 2 , 000 and a period of twelve months havo been required to repair the damage which time had wrought on the fabric . Tho principal works havo been an entire new
roof , tho picking off the plaster from the interior of tho walls , and the rcpointing them both within and without , repowing the whole , and flooring the chancel and all the aisles with encaustic tiles , and restoring the ancient decorated windows in the chancel and other parts . An entire new north aisle , the full length of the nave , and a vestry on the north side of the chancel , have been added ;
tho former containing live windows in the decorated stylo , and the latter , above the entrance from the churchyard , an ornamental trefoil window . The bells have also been restored to the tower ; the four old ones , which had been broken , having been recast at the expense ofthe Baroness Windsor , new gates have been placed in the porch , and a new screen at the base of the tower to divide it from the nave . The
churchyard walls have been repaired , and in many parts rebuilt . Tho stained-glass window above tho altar is a memorial one , erected at a cost of £ 150 . The window is emblematical of the Atonement and the Two Sacraments , and illustrates tho Crucifixion , Christ blessing little Children , and the Last . Sapper . At the bottom of the window is tho inscription , in , memory ofthe Honourable Robert Windsor Olive , M . P . The window in the south side ofthe nave is also amemorial . If is placed immediately above tho scats sot
apart for tho Castle family , and is to tho memory of the Hon . Wm . Windsor Olive . This window is in the Perpendicular style , ancl is divided into three lights , each of which illustrates the subject of Christ ' s raising the Widow ' s Son . The parish church of West Wiekham , has been recently embellished by the addition of two stained windows . The principal ono , at the cast end , represents in its three
compartments the Transfiguration of our Lord between Moses and Elias ; beneath are the sleeping Apostles , Peter , James , and Jolm . The second window is on tho south side of the chancel . This window is of two compartments , in the first is the figure of our Lord , and in the second the , kneeling figure of St . Peter . St . John the Baptist ' s Church , Toxtoth-park , Liverpool
which has bnt little decoration in its interior , has recently been inpiroved by the introduction of two stained-glass windows . One is a memorial to the late Andrew Browne , "Esq ., and is the gift of his grandson , tho Rev . J . W . Harchnau . It is in Early English work of a Geometric character , enclosing three groups , the subjects severally being , — "Hannah bringing Samuel to the Temple" Jacob blessing
, Ephra-im andManassch , " and " St . John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness . " In the east window tho groups occupy the entire breadth of the window , and the figures arc life size . The first is filled with " St . John tho Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness . " The centre compartment is filled with the " Baptism of our Lord in the River Jordan . " Tho third is occupied with ' - ¦ ' St . John pointing out to the
Two Disciples Jesus as the Lamb of God . " The donor was Mrs . Elizabeth Wheeler . A simple but genuine bit of restoration , has of late been effected in tliac noble example of English Domestic Architecture in the twelfth century , the Hall of Oakham Castle , by the removal of the thick coats of whitewash ivhich previously disguised tho timbers of tho open high-pitched roof . There is a talk of opening the blocked Norman window at the cast-end .
Arrr . orni . vn-.. —Aftor a long dispute among certain geologists as to what name should , he given to an animal recently discover ;;;! , one wishing to give it this name , another tkit- Riimt , a certain learned anil witty person proposed that , as it had caused a great bother in learned circle-1 , it should he called tho " Botheratio-tlieiiiun . " —P . T . Lucldaml .
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the Jewish ritual . The glimpse of sky , visible through it , is meant annually to typify the wilderness where they sojourn forty days . The synagogue itself is not sufficiently advanced to enable us to judge of its internal effect . Galleries carried on iron columns will run round three sides ofthe apartment , ancl iron columns above them , with arches
over , will support the flat-panelled ceiling . At the cast-end the apsed sanctuary will bo situated , and behind it a cupboard for the sacred scrolls . On the floor of the synagogue there will bo seats for tho men , and a reading-desk for the officiating priest in the midst of them . The exterior , though well worked out in all its details , and with much originality of design , bears little evidence of the purpose to
which it is to be devoted . The carving of the capitals is well executed . There is sufficient variety in the design to make it picturesque , without enough to destroy its regularity . It is composed of a centre and two wings , with the minister ' s house added at the east-end . The western wing is finished at the top by sloping cornices with trusses , and the eastern wing is carried hiher upand unites with a dwarf
g , tower and spire . Nearly all the windows are slightly horseshoe shape , which gives the building a tinge of Byzantine character , and there is a faint indication of the same quality in the incised ornament on the arch of the tower . Otherwise the building ivould appear to belong to the German or Italian-Gothic stylo , although occasional features show modern modifications of it , as in the outlines of the trusses
under cornices , and the brick keystones to alternate brick and stone voussoirs . The minister ' s house has a bay window , with stone pilasters and carved caps and trusses to carry the projecting square roof . Tho upper windows are in two lights , divided by elegant stone columns , and the dormer light above slightly projects from , the surface of the main wall . The entrance to the minister ' s house is by a plain
archway , a rounded opening in a pointed arch , witn alternate brick and stone voussoirs . All the arches are of the same shape , and all similarly ornamented with the two materials . The main entrance is by three arches having the same shape —semicircular openings in pointed arches . They are carried by coupled columns and pilaster and elaborately carved caps ; a small gable surmounts the centre arch , and a
pierced battlement the side ones . The central portion of the front is thence recessed , and is pierced by two double light windows , with stone columns dividing them . A pierced battlement on this wall joins the cornice of the western wing . The tower , occupying the eastern wing , has angle stone columns and a horse-shoe arch springing from tho top of them . The arch is filled with stone panels partially pierced
for light , and an incised ornament enriches the face of the freestone arch . A mingled brick and stono corbel table bears the cornice , ancl thence springs the ornamental slate spire , with an iron finial at the apex . The first-floor windows in both wings are in three lights , with the same characteristics as the other opening . In the wings and porchway bands of red brick , two course deep , intersect- the yellow brickwork , of which the building is mainly constructed .
The new cemetery at Great Warlcy , a recently-formed ecclesiastical parish , has been consecrated by the Bishop of Rochester . Tho cemetery is situate on the western side of the road leading from the Brentwood station , and adjoins the grounds of the County Lunatic Asylum . There arc but few dissenters in the parish , so that bnt ono chapel has been built , the plan of ivhich comprises nave , chancel , and
vestry , the style being the Early Decorated . The chancel has a three-light window , with atrefoiled circle in the head , over the entrance is a low-pointed arch , surrounding a circle filled with trefoils and quatrefoils . The roofs arc open , the floors paved with black and red tiles , ancl the benches aro placed stall-wise . A bell gable surmounts the chancel arch . The entrance to the ground , which is flanked by a lodge , for
the cemetcry-keepcr , consists of a low screen , surmounted by ornamental iron-work , and has gate-piers , with tall pyramidal terminations ,- the gates are of oak-, the upper panels being filled in with ornamental iron-work . Tho buildings and walls at the entrance are constructed of Kentish rag stone , with dressings of Anc-aster stone . Tho church recently erected at Bodelwyddan , has been consecrated by the Bishop of St . Asaph . ' The foundationstone was laid on the 21 th Juiv , 1856 , and the church has
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been erected at the exclusive cost of the Dowager Lad y Willoughby do Borke . Tho site selected is an eminence b y the north gate of the avenue leading to the mansion of Bodelwydclan , the scat of Sir Hugh Williams , Bart ., and commands a view of the picturcsqup vale of Clwycl . The whole cost of the erection is £ 22 , 000 .
The parish church of St . Pagan ' s , near Cardiff , has been reopened by the Bishop of Llandaff . The church ivhich has now been restored is dedicated to St . Mary . The work of renovation commence in 1 S 59 . So far had decay advanced , that little short of £ 2 , 000 and a period of twelve months havo been required to repair the damage which time had wrought on the fabric . Tho principal works havo been an entire new
roof , tho picking off the plaster from the interior of tho walls , and the rcpointing them both within and without , repowing the whole , and flooring the chancel and all the aisles with encaustic tiles , and restoring the ancient decorated windows in the chancel and other parts . An entire new north aisle , the full length of the nave , and a vestry on the north side of the chancel , have been added ;
tho former containing live windows in the decorated stylo , and the latter , above the entrance from the churchyard , an ornamental trefoil window . The bells have also been restored to the tower ; the four old ones , which had been broken , having been recast at the expense ofthe Baroness Windsor , new gates have been placed in the porch , and a new screen at the base of the tower to divide it from the nave . The
churchyard walls have been repaired , and in many parts rebuilt . Tho stained-glass window above tho altar is a memorial one , erected at a cost of £ 150 . The window is emblematical of the Atonement and the Two Sacraments , and illustrates tho Crucifixion , Christ blessing little Children , and the Last . Sapper . At the bottom of the window is tho inscription , in , memory ofthe Honourable Robert Windsor Olive , M . P . The window in the south side ofthe nave is also amemorial . If is placed immediately above tho scats sot
apart for tho Castle family , and is to tho memory of the Hon . Wm . Windsor Olive . This window is in the Perpendicular style , ancl is divided into three lights , each of which illustrates the subject of Christ ' s raising the Widow ' s Son . The parish church of West Wiekham , has been recently embellished by the addition of two stained windows . The principal ono , at the cast end , represents in its three
compartments the Transfiguration of our Lord between Moses and Elias ; beneath are the sleeping Apostles , Peter , James , and Jolm . The second window is on tho south side of the chancel . This window is of two compartments , in the first is the figure of our Lord , and in the second the , kneeling figure of St . Peter . St . John the Baptist ' s Church , Toxtoth-park , Liverpool
which has bnt little decoration in its interior , has recently been inpiroved by the introduction of two stained-glass windows . One is a memorial to the late Andrew Browne , "Esq ., and is the gift of his grandson , tho Rev . J . W . Harchnau . It is in Early English work of a Geometric character , enclosing three groups , the subjects severally being , — "Hannah bringing Samuel to the Temple" Jacob blessing
, Ephra-im andManassch , " and " St . John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness . " In the east window tho groups occupy the entire breadth of the window , and the figures arc life size . The first is filled with " St . John tho Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness . " The centre compartment is filled with the " Baptism of our Lord in the River Jordan . " Tho third is occupied with ' - ¦ ' St . John pointing out to the
Two Disciples Jesus as the Lamb of God . " The donor was Mrs . Elizabeth Wheeler . A simple but genuine bit of restoration , has of late been effected in tliac noble example of English Domestic Architecture in the twelfth century , the Hall of Oakham Castle , by the removal of the thick coats of whitewash ivhich previously disguised tho timbers of tho open high-pitched roof . There is a talk of opening the blocked Norman window at the cast-end .
Arrr . orni . vn-.. —Aftor a long dispute among certain geologists as to what name should , he given to an animal recently discover ;;;! , one wishing to give it this name , another tkit- Riimt , a certain learned anil witty person proposed that , as it had caused a great bother in learned circle-1 , it should he called tho " Botheratio-tlieiiiun . " —P . T . Lucldaml .