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us so use and appropriate OUT knowledge and principles that when this flickering , yet eventful scene is over , we may all—all , without one exception—become members of the Grand Lodge above , where the Great Architect of the Universe sits and reigns enshi-ined in glory . Finally , brethren , it is one great principle of our Order to maintainin their fullest splendourthose truly

, , Masonic ornaments , benevolence and charity . As Masons , we have to support our Almshouses for Aged and Decayed Brethren , —we have our large Orphan Girls' School at St . John ' s Hill , —we have , too , our Orphan Boys ' School , for ivhich we are providing new and larger premises for 100 inmates , on a scale of magnificence worthy of the Masonic Order , —we have , too , our General Fund

of Benevolence . I need scarcely remind you that the fees of our initiation , which by many are considered heavy , as well as our monthly contributions , after deducting therefrom the expenses of our own lodge , are appropriated to these general purposes , so that nothing is really wasted or thrown away ivhich is paid into our treasury . This day the brethren have kindly consented

to contribute , along with my parishioners , towards the funds of Ujiperby Parish Schools . We do indeed need assistance . If ever a good and efficient school was needed , it is needed here . The necessities of Upperby iu this particular are unfortunately proverbial Brethren , " freely ye have received , freely give . "

Matter For The History Of The Revival Of Gothic Architecture.

MATTER FOR THE HISTORY OF THE REVIVAL OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE .

DEAR MR . EDITOR , —Do , ]) ray , let me write a touching little chapter . The " revival of Gothic architecture" had spread throughout the length and breadth of the land . It had infused a spirit of talented imitation , and an enlightened gleaning up of precedent , both in the English and Roman Church , and also amongst the various and diversified denomination of Christendom ; and great was the reputation of the architect who could

point to this and that work he had " carried out , " as being after the famous cathedral at " Chiaro Oscuro , " or the beautiful old parish church at Requiescam in Pace , or the much-admired slantindiculaY chapel built in the eleventh century , at Middlecum-Farthingale . Such was the strength of this " revival" in the Established Church , that in the matter of small towers and spires great was the rise thereof . Uor were other sects backward in imitating tho imitation . In the Social Societyfor

in-, stance , a great stir was made about it . It was hard , at first , to get people out of their conventicle chimney-pot and tubulartruncated notions of chapel building ; but at length Dr . Jobbins was " raised up , " who , having had the felicity to bo an architect's clerk before entering the ministry , took up the advocacy of the subject , and at length brought forth a book in illustration of his views both by pen aud pencil ; showing , in high

contrast , the usual chimney-pot style prevalent in their society , and the more appropriate " Gothic style . " Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture undoubtedly owes much to the labours and researches of this ( physically ) great man . Had Dr . Jobbins lived in the present age , what a source of gratification to him ivould it have been to witness the results of his . strenuous exertions , in the - pains that are taken to j . rop up the hallowed wallsand tie together the falling roofs of those

build-, ings which were the result of his peculiar appreciation and advocacy of the " Gothic style , " AVhile paying this tribute to the memory of Dr . Jobbins in connection with the revival of Gothic architecture , it may not be amiss to allude to the means by which so much was done in the Social Societ y to advance this important movement . Dr . Jobbins , in conjunction with an eminent architect and

F . G . H . A . B . C ., who came from Bath ( the date of whose return to that city is uncertain ) , caused many chapels and schools to be built in the " Gothic style . " These two gentlemen being collectively and individually somewhat unacquainted with the principles of construction demanded by this " style , " or with the principles in the abstract as is supposed , —attention having been much absorbed by the contemplation of the F . G . H . A . B . C , — the buildings erected occasionally fell down , all but depriving future generations of those monuments of skill and genius and

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of those landmarks ( which , let us be thankful still exist ) pointing ( the architecture being pointed ) towards a haven of archi-. teetural triumph . In spite of obstacles such as these , which had to he overcome by dint of labour and force of genius , the revival spread . A " model" chapel was arrived at on which subsequent erections were to be founded ; and this model chapel , even after the tremendous lapse of time that has intervened , still stands in the

town of Shockingem , an example to the people of that favoured locality and to the architectural world of what may be achieved in ecclesiastical art when the glorious models of the Middle Ages are copied and adapted ; constituting models for future generations to admire and imitate ; thus perpetuating the perpetual perpetration from generation to generation . As evidence of the utility of this justly celebrated model , it lias been imitated in numerous instanceseven to the very patching and

, propping up which invariably accompany the peculiarity of the style . " This building , " says Dr . Jobbins , in his luminous work , " was built after the emulsions of Gargoyle Whatsisname , Esq ., F . G . H . A . B . C , architect , of Bath , and received the prize of fifty guineas , as being , in the judgment of the Model Plan Committee , the best design submitted to them for a chapel in the Gothic style . " The building is " thoroughly consistent with the period

of its style , " a consistency upheld by Dr . Jobbins and others , . and the more remarkable considering the inconsistency of the consistency . In describing this celebrated building ( and for the sake of those who have not had the privilege of seeing it , the doctor's description will answer ) , the doctor says the " Chaste and pleasing appearance of the angular turrets will , not be fully inferred from the

engraving . " The fact is , that this chaste appearance can only bo inferred from a visit to the place ; but for those who wish to witness this chastity at its real source , a visit to the little lnediaival chapel of Middle-cum-Farthingale , from ivhich this feature is copied , will equally answer . " The front is divided , " says the doctor , "by bold projecting buttresses ; " a boldness , by the way , if criticism may be allowed after the doctor's excellent

criticism , strikingly illustrated by the cupola with louvre at the top —( no , not " strikingly , " for there is neither clock nor bell nor anything of a striking nature in it ) ,- which , not knowing what else to put there , the architect boldly put ; and there it remains to this day—lapse of time , as before remarked , notwithstanding . The side windows are taken from the cathedral and church at Magnum Bolus ; the flowing , wave-like tracery of the parapetfrom Florabella Abbey Church ; and the large

, central window divided into four lights , from the Priory Church of Duplicaudo-et-Multum-in-Parvo . The interior of this edifice is carried out in a somewhat similar revival spirit . "The roof , " Dr . Jobbins informs us , " has been pronounced by the most practical judges to be safe and good , " which , in addition to the views of Gargoyle Whatsisname , Esq ., F . G . H . A . B . C , is satisfactory .

There is one feature about tbe internal construction of which Dr . Jobbins appears not to have taken note , and which feature has been thought worthy of being repeated in other structures of the same class , —and seems an idea , the original credit of which is due to Gargoyle AVhatsisnane , Esq ., —and that is the manner in which the ceiling is "hoved up" ( as the mother of Francis Bacon says of the stomach of a dropsical

subject ) to make way for the large central front window , which otherwise it would have been difficult to work in . After the erection of this model chapel numerous chapels and ' schools were built under the superintendence of the F . G . H . A . B . C , or after the " model . " Features both of an ornamental and constructional character were imitated and repeated even to the tumbling down , propping up , and tying

together ; and those that did not tumble quite down still stand as monuments of skill and imitative genius , and of the revival spirit of the period to which this historical sketch alludes . The " bold " gables and buttresses from Coekstraddle Abbey , the chaste crocketed pinnacles and bell-less bell-turrets , from the beautiful little church of Barnaby-Dickens , and the flowing window tracery from Flamblazingford , sprang up and developed themselves like mushrooms . " Hi JACULIS EH DE _ - £ KD ]_ EE SAXIS , " in the JBuilder .

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HE who wishes to comprehend the present and understand the future , must take his lesson from the past ; for it is there that he finds the roots of the present , and the germs of tbe future .