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was then carefully removed from beneath tho five resting points on tho north side of the centre beam , and a new bed made to receive the timbers when they should be lowered . Thc operation was most successfully performed . Local papers say thc restoration of Netley Abbey , on the banks of Southampton Water , is progressing . A few days since thc workmen engaged in restoring the abbey

discovered the grave and tombstone of one of the monks . According to the inscription on the stone the name was John Wade , and he died in 1-431 . An inscription has also been discovered at the base of one of tho columns in the chapel , from which ifc appears that the abbey was built in thc reign of Henry III . Ditton parish church has been under restoration . The

work has chiefly been confined to thc interior of the edifice , but it is hoped that before long the repair of the exterior may also be accomplished . On the north side a vestry has been added , and two now windows on the south side . A now chancel arch has also been erected , and the church entirely reseated—the old pews being substituted by open benches , and the accommodation proportionallincreased .

y All the walls have been rc-plastercd , and the timbers ofthe roof , which had been hidden with plaster and whitewash , have been laid bare . New pulpit and reading-desk have likewise been provided , and other alterations and improvements made . During the progress of the work the remains of an old mural painting , consisting of a portion of the figure of a man , was discoveredand has been left exposed .

, The foundation-stone of a new church has been laid at Burbage , about ; one milo from Buxton , Derbyshire . Thc Duke of Devonshire gave a site , on the Macclesfield oad , and £ 350 . Other subscri ptions now amount to upwards of £ 2600 . Thc estimated cost of the new church is £ 2600 , including a peal of bells ; but the contractor ' s

estimate is £ 2080 . Thc church is expected to be finished in June next . Its style of architecture will be Norman , and it willhavc a tower fifty-two feet high . It will have a nave , two aisles , and a chancel , and will be erected of freestone dressing , from a stone quarry at Reyc-cdgc , in tho neighbourhood . There will be 400 sittings , tho ' seats being open stalls . Thc roof will be open , in grained oak .

The new church of St . Stephen , erected on a plot of ground iu Moor Lane , Congleton , Cheshire , has been consecrated . Tho building stands about midway between Congleton and Buglaivton . Thc church consists of an apsidal chancel , with nave and north and south aisles , having the vestry open to the church , with tho heating chamber under on thc north side of tho chancel , and a

chapel or organ-chamber on the south side of same . There is a southern porch and a western entrance . Thc total length of the church exceeds 100 feet ; ifc is about 49 feet wide , and holds 600 persons . A tower is contemplated at a future time ; but at present thc single bell is carried in a turret over tlic chancel arch . Tho " style is Early Third Pointed , of the latter part of thirteenth century . Tlic expenditure on thc edifice has been about £ 3000 . The

chancel is decorated with painted glass , thc floor laid with tiles . The seats and fittings arc " of oak . Thc chancel is partccl oil' ivith wrought-iron screens . The ivhole of the seats in thc nave arc open , of pitch pine . Thc passages boj-ond thc chancel arc laid with plain tiles , Thc roofs arc panelled , with thc main timbers exposed , and a series of ornamentation is carried throughout the church by the introduction of floral

and geometric drawing . All thc woodwork , other than oak , is stained and varnished , and the oak is bees ' -wax polished . A Caen stone font- stands at the entrance . All the windows on the south side and in the clerestory are filled in with patterns in different shades of Hartley ' s ' patent glass . The interior ashlar work of the church is in Bath stone , with Alton and Forsfc red

sandstone introduced alternately into the arches of thc nave . Derbyshire marbles are used in tlic piers of thc chancel arch . Tlic- walling stone is from the locality , and the exterior ashlar of Staffordshire stone . The chancel has three windows filled with stained glass . The subjects are designed ivitli reference to the memorial , those in thc centre ivindow being taken from the New Testament , and those in the side windows from the Old . In the middle window arc—the aged Simeon with the infant Jesus iu his

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arms , and the stoning of St . Stephen . Iu the north window are Jacob blessing the children of Joseph , and Joshua before his death addressing the tribes . In the south window are Job and Daniel . Another new National School has been opened in the Military Road , Chatham , making the fourth now school for the children of the poorer classes built and opened

within a comparatively short period . Tho building in question has been erected at a cost of £ 1646 , of which sum £ 250 were given b y the Lords of the Admiralty , and £ 740 by the Committee of Council on Education , and other Government departments , the remaining £ 656 having been obtained by private subscriptions , raised chiefly through the exertions of the Rev . S . Arnott , vicar of tho adjoining church

of St . Mary . Tho school is of Kentish rag , with brick and freestone dressing ; ifc will accommodate infants as well as boys and girls of more" advanced age . St . Edmund's new schools , Salisbury , erected on tho cast side of St . Edmund ' s churchyard , for the education of the children of the poor iu this large parish , have been formally opened by the bishop of the diocese . The buildings arc in

the Decorated style of architecture , and the total cost of the erection is about £ 4500 . The accommodation afforded is for 500 children , namely , _ 150 girls , 150 boys , and 200 infants , besides a residence for the master . The central portion of the edifice is occupied by the girls and infants' schools , the boys' department being on the left , and thc master ' s houseon the richt .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

COSTUME OF THE KXIGIIXS Oi' TIIE OEDEK OP THE TEMPLE . [ We promised to extract the above information from the Ilamial nf tlic Knights ofthe Order of the Temple . By f Fra . Henry Lucas , of the Priory of Jacques de Molay at Liverpool , 12 mo ., 1830 . ] Chapter 30—Of the dress . Art . 410—Tho dress and ornaments ofthe profession are as follows : —A linen girdle ahout the loins . A

gold ring of the profession , glittering with the cross of the Order , and with the letters P . JD . .. P ., hut within , it is engraven with tho Christian and surnames , and with the day and year of profession , and is worn on the right forefinger . A white woollen tunic , adorned with the cross of the Order in red woollen , on the left side . A red collar , edged with white silk , from ivhieh is suspended the conventual cross , made after the pattern depicted in

the Charter of Transmission . A white silk stomacher , acloniecl at the ends with the reel cross of the Order , and fringed with red . A white woollen mantle , adorned with a red woollen cross of the Order , on the left side . A white woollen cap with a rod woollen apex , and ornamented with a red feather . White woollen breeches ( Femoralia ) or pantaloons . Yellow boots , edged with red . Gold spurs . An equestrian sword , with a silver haft , in the form of a cross , and adorned ivith the Order of the cross , suspended from a green silk belt . Art . -ill—There are also added , according to the dignities of the knights , in place of the collar of profession , the red

silk belt of the grr . r . d cross , edged with white , from which hangs the grancl conventual cross of the Order , worn from the right shoulder to the left hip . A triple reel silk ribband of aides-de-camp , edged with ivhite , ancl fringed with gold , hanging from the right shoulder . Art . 412—The tunic of the Grand Master is lined and edged with ermine skins , ancl adorned with the grand cross of the Order in red woollen on the breast ; but , on the left side , is embroidered with a needlea trile Latin cross ( Crux trilex Lalina ) .

, p p in red silk , which a rosary surrounds , in gold globules , of which , every ninth or greater globule is red . The collar is made of steel ( Major ferro ) , iu the form of a chain with ei ghty-one links , from which hangs the gold medal , adorned with the ciiigy ofthe most Holy Father Hugh ( to whom be honour and glory ) , and inscribed with these words : —Pro Deo el Pulr ' u ' ., and , on the reverse , thc effigy of tins most Hol y Eather Bernard , and with

these words engraven : —Ecrro non av . ro se inuniv . nl , with thc red cross ofthe Order cireimiiixeil . The minor collar is made of gold , in the form of a rosary , with eighty-one oval globules , enamelled in red , every ninth excepted , which ninth , larger , is ivhite with the initial letters H . and 1 . ( llrcn oi- THE V . \ G __ ss , inslitutor of'llie Order ; JACQUES __ . : _ JJSIOI . AY , Martyr , in this maimer , 1-1-1 ); it glitters , the first black , the other red , which two green palms surround . From the minor collar hangs tlic conventual cross . The belt of the grand C . -L - is worn as in Art . 411 . The stomacher is frhicred wicli Lruld . The mantle is lined and ed __ -o-: l with ermine