Architecture And Archæology.

the basement . At the far side of the large room , and communicating of course with it , new medical officers' rooms are built , which on the male patients or eastern side are connected by a covered way with the two houses in Little Britain formerly occupied by the students , but now to be used as the residences of house surgeons . On the western side the medical officers' rooms communicate with the other

portion of the hospital by one of the spacious entrance-halls approached in tho opposite direction from the central quadrangle . The new waiting-room will be lighted by means of three windows at the eastern end looking into Little Britain , two at the western end looking into an inner court , and by a lantern in the centre of the open-timbered roof , 26 ft . long blift . wide . The roofwhich is framed with queen-rods

y , and iron ties , is ceiled under the common rafters . The floor is supported by iron girders which rest on the transverse walls , dividing the coal-cellers in the basement . Apartments for the bath-man have been provided in the basement , where there is also a room for splints , aud a large space as yet unappropriated . By this addition to the hospital a casualty-room nearly three times the size of the former one

will be obtained , and accommodation for seven medical officers , instead of for three as hei'efcofore , will be attached to it , besides minor conveniences which may be estimated from the above mention of them .

In making an addition to a facade the architectural character of ivhich is so clearly defined as is that of St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , an architect has very little opportunity for the display of his powers . He must preserve the unity of the building , and , sinking his own individuality , work in the style of his predecessor . Mr . Hardwick has so well succeeded in doing this , that when Time has assimilated

the tints of the stonework , a stranger , ignorant of the hospital's history , would not recognise the addition . The limits of the new building is nevertheless distintly marked , but in such a way as the original architect would have done it , had the necessity that occasioned its erection existed 120 years ago . The several Portland stone rusticated arches , cornicesand attic arc continueda rusticated ier—which

, , p has its counterpart at the angle of the building—being built where tbe old joins the new work . A couple of arches similar to the old ones are then placed on either side of a Doric columnar porch , which is recessed 10 feet from the front , and has two entrances under it—one to the men ' s and the other to the women's side of the new waiting-room . The attic corresponds with that in the old building , and the roof

and lantern is visible above it , A symmetrical wing is thus produced complete in itself , defining one department ofthe hosjntal , and harmonious with that larger portion to which ifc belongs . —Building Jsfetss .

Discovery Of Historical Paintings At Marlborough House.

DISCOVERY OF HISTORICAL PAINTINGS AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE .

Recently , while making alterations and repairs at Marlborough House , Pall-mall , the future residence of the Prince of Wales , it ivas discovered that the walls of the grand staircase , second staircase , and saloon were covered with paintings illustrating the principal campaigns of the great Duke of Marlborough . These pictures were found papered and painted over and intersected by ornamental frames , so

as to give the whole the appearance of woodwork , ancl no one would have surmised that beneath were concealed some 500 square yards of paintings , of the highest importance , not only in au historical sense , but also for their artistic excellence . The pictures have been recovered , inch by inch , by the removal of the outer incrustation of common house paint aud paper ; and besides several masterly portraits of

Marlborough and his staff , and the chief men of the allied army , there aro views of cities , battles , and sieges delineated in a masterly manner , exhibiting the various actors in the proper costume of their day , with the arms and accoutrements which they wore , accurately represented . The author , Louis Laguerre , appears to have been a very simple man in ordinary matters , but the works under notice prove him to have been no mean master in his art . He was content , it would appear , to let others take the credit for his labours , being chiefly employed by the Neapolitan painter Yerrio ,

Discovery Of Historical Paintings At Marlborough House.

in whose company he has come down to us iu Pope ' s couplet : — " Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre . " written in reference to the paintings on the walls of Hampton Court Palace . "Whatever share Laguerre might have had in the production of those " sprawling saints" certain it is

, that they bear no sort of comparison with the pictures now discovered in Pall-mall , in which the portraits , which are numerous , have a life-like look , some of them being equal to the majority of the portraits by Kneller . It is a fact much to the credit of Laguerre , that he was selected by Sir Godfrey Kneller , a notable connoisseur , to decorate the stair- , case of his mansion at "Witton .

It would have been a very imperfect restoration of old Marlborough House to have left concealed the characteristic pictures on its walls . The wonder is that they were ever defaced and obscured . Macaulay , while penning the history of Marlborough's times , would doubtless have contemplated them with interest . Painted under the direction of those who could best judge of the accuracy of the representation ,

more especially of the features of the eminent personages portrayed , they may be regarded as reliable records of stirring times in English history . By their recovery a blank will be filled up . The work of restoration has been entrusted to Mr . Henry Merritt , who , assisted by Signer Pinti , has already nearly completed the chief pictures on the grand staircase .

General Architectural Intelligence.

GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCE .

St . Peter ' s Roman Catholic Chapel , Cardiff , has been opened . The church is erected on land adjoining Tredegarville , in the parish of St . John the Baptist , and may be approached either from Roath-road or Plucca-lane , now called " Castle-road . " The style of the church is Gothic . The church is 133 feet long by 60 feet wide : it consists of a navea sanctuaryand two aislesand has three

, , ; altars—namely , the high altar , dedicated to St . Peter , the patron saint of the church ; the altar of the Virgin , and that of St . Patrick . It was built for the sum of £ 3 , 850 , exclusive of organ-gallery , benches , drainage , & c .

The Roman Catholic chapel , in George-street , Leamington , is about to be replaced by a more commodious structure . The new edifice , which will occupy the site of the present building , although the west front will project further into George-street , will be in the Lombardic style of architecture . Its extreme length will be 100 ft ., and its greatest width 54 ft .

The chief stone of a Wesleyan Methodist chapel , to be erected in Belvidere-road , Prince ' s-park , Liverpool , and to be dedicated to St . John , has been laid . The site is on a slope , and the north-east or main facade faces the Belvidereroad , and the communion end of the edifice , with schools , extends to Rodney-street . The style is Decorated , and the materials used for the external walls of both chapel and

schools are Yorkshire stone , pitch-faced or par-points , the quoin stones ancl dressings being of cut Stourton-hill stones . The chapel itself consists of a nave in one span , 39 ft . wide 90 ft . long , with transepts on each side measuring internally 24 ft . by 15 ffc ., ancl separated from the nave by moulded pointed arches , inclosing side galleries , having traceried fronts , in a line with the side walls of tho nave . In the nave

itself there will bo only a small gallery over the front entrance , for the use of the organist and choir ; and at the opposite extremity ( towards Rodney-street ) an arched recess for the communion , having at its rear a large five-light traceried window . In front of this recess will stand the pulpit . All the roofs throughout will be open timbered , wrought ancl varnished on their exposed surface , the height

of the nave roof being upwards of 50 ft . The length of the chapel will be dividect into seven bays , or severies , each bay being lighted by a large three-light traceried window on each side of the ' nave , and having its roof divided from the bays adjoining by principal trusses , with curved braces , hammer beams , & c , springing from moulded stoue corbels , placed nearly half-way down the side walls . The whole of