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Our Architectural Chapter.
hall in a colony to which a penny stamp will carry a newspaper . There aro many colonies which have strong claims on individual brethren , and wc trust they will afford this welcome assistance . The Lodge afc St . Thomas ' s is necessarily on the highest story , ancl is of good dimensions , nearly fifty feet long and nearly twenty feet wide
, being forty-nine by eighteen and a half inside dimensions , The dimensions of the two adjoining rooms are not given as we should desire ; one being a reception room or visitors' room , and tho other the library . The ground floor is not described . On the decoration we do not think it needful to make any further observation than this , that the decoration being painted on the walls ,
is uniform for the first , second ancl third degrees , whereas provision should be made for its being at once varied for each ceremony , which is noiv unfortunately systematically neglected iu every English Lodge . We believe that tho brethren at St . Thomas ' s have , like many others , been in some degree misled by Bro . Dr . Oliver , whom they have followed , ancl who in most matters adheres to his own imaginings instead of to landmarks .
It is one advantage of a Loclge having ifcs own hall , that ifc can conveniently provide tho requisite decorations by permanent arrangements . Thanks fco Dr . Oliver , tho hall at St . Thomas ' s is painted blue , whereas another colour ought to be used for E . A . and F . G ., and a proper provision made for M . M . The change of appearance of the interior can be readily effected by a contrivance to which wc have
before referred and whicli merits attention . Our readers will see the principle at work in the picture gallery of Sir John Soane ' s Museum , in Lincolns'Inn Fields . This is a small room , but is so contrived that it shews three sets of pictures , or equivalent to the contents of three rooms ; this is effected by causing the walls to open out , and show another set of pictures on tho reverse . Suppose tho following diagram to represent tho side or wall of a Lodge :
«• b a d a f If b d and / can be set with ^ f ^_ that will do . The wall from a to / we will suppose to be red , ancl for another it is to be to black
ceremony changed , the several panels a , b , c , d , e , f showing a red face . Now b is hinged to a , d to o , and / to e , and b , d , and / , being turned on their hinges and laid flat back like a shutter , the back or new face of b , d , and f , put on a , c , and e , would bo black , and the panels opened in their place where bdand / before stoodwould likewise
, , , appear black ; and so in a couple of minutes the whole decorations of tho Lodgo would bo changed , and when required changed back again . The dais at St , Thomas ' s occupies the whole width of the room , and
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Our Architectural Chapter.
hall in a colony to which a penny stamp will carry a newspaper . There aro many colonies which have strong claims on individual brethren , and wc trust they will afford this welcome assistance . The Lodge afc St . Thomas ' s is necessarily on the highest story , ancl is of good dimensions , nearly fifty feet long and nearly twenty feet wide
, being forty-nine by eighteen and a half inside dimensions , The dimensions of the two adjoining rooms are not given as we should desire ; one being a reception room or visitors' room , and tho other the library . The ground floor is not described . On the decoration we do not think it needful to make any further observation than this , that the decoration being painted on the walls ,
is uniform for the first , second ancl third degrees , whereas provision should be made for its being at once varied for each ceremony , which is noiv unfortunately systematically neglected iu every English Lodge . We believe that tho brethren at St . Thomas ' s have , like many others , been in some degree misled by Bro . Dr . Oliver , whom they have followed , ancl who in most matters adheres to his own imaginings instead of to landmarks .
It is one advantage of a Loclge having ifcs own hall , that ifc can conveniently provide tho requisite decorations by permanent arrangements . Thanks fco Dr . Oliver , tho hall at St . Thomas ' s is painted blue , whereas another colour ought to be used for E . A . and F . G ., and a proper provision made for M . M . The change of appearance of the interior can be readily effected by a contrivance to which wc have
before referred and whicli merits attention . Our readers will see the principle at work in the picture gallery of Sir John Soane ' s Museum , in Lincolns'Inn Fields . This is a small room , but is so contrived that it shews three sets of pictures , or equivalent to the contents of three rooms ; this is effected by causing the walls to open out , and show another set of pictures on tho reverse . Suppose tho following diagram to represent tho side or wall of a Lodge :
«• b a d a f If b d and / can be set with ^ f ^_ that will do . The wall from a to / we will suppose to be red , ancl for another it is to be to black
ceremony changed , the several panels a , b , c , d , e , f showing a red face . Now b is hinged to a , d to o , and / to e , and b , d , and / , being turned on their hinges and laid flat back like a shutter , the back or new face of b , d , and f , put on a , c , and e , would bo black , and the panels opened in their place where bdand / before stoodwould likewise
, , , appear black ; and so in a couple of minutes the whole decorations of tho Lodgo would bo changed , and when required changed back again . The dais at St , Thomas ' s occupies the whole width of the room , and