NEW CHURCHES.

S. John the Evangelist, Eton, Bucks.-The new parochial chapel of S. John the Evangelist, Eton, (the college chapel itself being the legal parish church, though of course the new building will, for all practical purposes, be used as such,) is a spacious structure in the MiddlePointed style, erected from Mr. Ferrey's designs. The general plan consists of chancel, with tower engaged on its north side, nave aisles, and south porch. The chancel, which is long and lofty, is divided in its roof into four bays, flanked, as we have said, in its western portion by the tower on the north side, and on the south by an aisle of two bays. The nave, which is very spacious, is divided into six bays, flanked with aisles, and lighted by a clerestory. The church is entered by a porch on the north side, in the second bay from the west, and also through the tower. There is no entrance from the west or from the south sides, except to the clergy through the sacristy. The nave pillars are octagonal, with foliaged capitals. The west window is of six lights, divided into two sub-fenestrations of three lights, with a circle containing three quatrefoils in the general head. The east window is also of six lights, but of three sub-fenestrations of two lights each, with three trefoils in the head of the central one, and a quatrefoil in those on each side, with, in the general head, a foliated cinqfoil, and two foliated quatrefoils in circles. The west windows of the aisles are of two lights; those in the aisles of three lights, with elliptical heads. The clerestory is of two lights, alternately elliptical and obtuse pointed. The two windows to the north of the sanctuary are of two lights. The roofs are all open, those in the nave and chancel having arched braces, the chancel roof being richer in design, and stained of a darker colour. The altar stands on a foot-pace within a sanctuary raised on one step, paved with encaustic tiles, and fenced by a low screen of metal and wood. The chairs are placed against the south wall. The chancel, which rises on three steps above the nave, is seated with two rows of oaken benches with desk fronts put stall-wise, extending too far, it seemed to us, to the eastward, and separated from the south aisle by bold parcloses of oak. The prayer-desk stands on the south side, just within the chancel, facing north. The lessons are read from a handsome lettern of oak, and the pulpit, of stone, is placed against the north jamb of the chancel arch. The font is in the nave, against the second pillar on the north side, counting from the west. The organ is placed in the chancel aisle, beyond which, as we should have noticed, stands the vestry. The seats are uniform, and of oak; but we were sorry to observe that those on the south of the nave had doors-introduced, as we observed by a letter of Mr. Ferrey to a daily paper, in his absence and without his knowledge. We earnestly trust that the forcible and eloquent denunciation of pew-doors, which occurred in the Bishop of New Zealand's consecration sermon may have its effect in the church in which it was delivered. It is a pity that the pillars,

walls and arcade of the nave were not, as well as the wall which they sustain, somewhat stouter. The tower is crowned with a broach spire of smooth stone, with two rows of spire lights. It is lofty, with double belfry lights, a statue of S. John being placed between them on the east side. The material of the church is Kentish rag, random dressed, with quoins of dressed stone. The interior is lined with Bath stone ashlared. The church, altogether, conveys a great idea of

spaciousness.

S. Anne, Plymstock, Devon.-This is a simple Middle-Pointed church, by Mr. White, intended to accommodate 381 persons, including 72 children, and comprising a good chancel, 33 ft. 5 in. by 14 ft. 8 in., with small vestry at its north-east side; a nave, 66 ft. 8 in. by 25 ft. 4 in., and a south aisle with south-western porch. The south aisle is somewhat less in length, at both ends, than the nave to which it is attached. The ritual arrangements are excellent: with well-marked sanctuary and spacious chancel, which is furnished with benches and subsellæ all moveable. There is a low screen under the chancel-arch. The pulpit is in the north-east angle of the nave. The children's seats are placed at the west end. The arcade is of four broad arches, rising from very plain granite shafts, octagonal, with caps and bases formed on the square. The windows are couplets of plain lights with a quatrefoil in the head; they are placed almost too near the eaves, though we quite sympathise with the architect's desire to keep the level of the windows a good height from the ground line. The east window is of five lights; the middle one being lofty and broad, and the others being couplets of low narrow lights with a quatrefoil above each. The roofs are satisfactory, that of the aisle having a separate gable. The level of the ground slopes towards the east, which gives the east elevation much dignity externally. The vestry is, owing to this inequality of level, several steps lower than the chancel to which it is attached. Two bells are hung in a wooden framework, affixed, very picturesquely, externally against the west gable. There is a small door on the north side of the nave, opposite to the south-west porch. Upon the whole we are greatly pleased with the plain and severe treatment of this very inexpensive church.

S.

—, Penmaen, Llandaff.-We have to thank Mr. J. Norton for an inspection of his drawings for this new church. The building is small, accommodating 278 persons, and consists of a chancel, 27 in. 3 ft. by 18 ft., a nave, 52 ft. 6 in. by 24 ft. 6 in., with a vestry to the north-west of the chancel, and a porch almost in the middle of the south side. The chancel is fairly arranged, with spacious sanctuary, and stall-like benches on each side; those on the north side, however, being shorter by one seat than those of the south, in order to make way for the vestry door. The pulpit is at the north-east of the nave, approached by no less than six spiral steps from the level of the chancel. This is surely an unnecessary height for so small a building. On the south side, projecting into the nave from the level of the chancel, is, we regret to see, a reading-pew with desks facing north and west. The nave has open benches on each side, with narrower seats for children at the western end. These are all of them westward of the

porch, and divided by the font from the rest of the seats: an unfortunate symbolism. The style of the building is a somewhat ugly type of First-Pointed; the windows being uniform pairs of trefoil-headed lancets, except at the east end, where there is an almost MiddlePointed window of three lights with intersecting monials, and at the west end, where there are two windows, each of two plain lights with a quatrefoiled circle in the head, standing on a common string-course, and divided by a corbelled shaft which supports the projecting half of a western bell-cot. The buttresses are uniform, of two stages, and, together with a rather mean porch, give an impression of somewhat meagre and commonplace design, not altogether dispelled by a pretty and picturesque, though rather over-elaborate, belfry-turret, octagonal, with tall octagonal spirelet, the total height of which is 68 ft. The roofs internally are good. The chancel-arch has corbelled shafts, and at the west end some variety is effectively given by a corbelled shaft sustaining the thickening of the west wall internally for the belfry

turret.

Mr. White has designed a chancel to be added to a miserable modern church at Inverury by Keith Hall, in Aberdeenshire. The east window is of three detached unequal lancets, each trifoliated under a trefoil, and all under a common label. There is a vestry under a lean-to roof on the north side, and the south wall has two windows, one of two lights, and the other a single light.

SS. Philip and James, Ilfracombe. (A communication.)—“ Sir,-I find on an inspection of the new church here, that the south aisle extends one bay along the chancel, opening into it by an arch: then comes a building for the hot-air apparatus. Into this, opposite to the centre window on the north side, is a small door like a 'priest's door,' over which there is a truncated window, unglazed, by which the warm air is, I believe, to enter the church; but the whole is in so unfinished a state that I cannot give any accurate account of it. The works will shortly be suspended entirely, owing to want of funds, and the walls will be protected by boarding or slates at top, till there is a reasonable prospect of finishing the building. I am, sir, your obedt. servant, R. Ilfracombe, July 8."

S. ——, Nettlefield, Battle, Sussex.—This new church, (of the Middle-Pointed style), by Mr. Teulon, is in plan composed of a nave and north aisle, of five bays under separate gables; a chancel, with a gabled vestry in continuation of the aisle to the north, and a tower and spire forming the porch and filling in the second bay to the south, the more westernly one being a short bay. There is no west entrance; the nave pillars are circular, with responds; the west windows of the nave and aisle are of two lights: the south-western bay of the nave has a single-light window; the south-eastern of the same one of three lights; as also the window of the aisle which faces it. The two other windows of the nave, and the three remaining of the aisle are of two lights. The nave roof is composed of collars and queen-posts. The font stands correctly in the westernly bay of the nave to the left of the entrance, with a sort of bench-table for the sponsors. The seats face eastwards, with a double alley, except in the most eastern bay of the aisle,

where they are turned to the south—this, we trust, may be rectified. The chancel-arch is of three orders. The chancel comprises an east window of three lights, a window of a single light on either side of the sanctuary, and one more to the west on the south side of two lights. The vestry is parclosed off, and contains an organ, under the arch which divides it from the chancel; in our opinion the vestry ought always to be a substantive apartment. There is a double row of benches placed stall-wise on either side, the most western space to the south in the lower range being set apart as the prayer-desk. Could not this be rectified, as the effect will prove as little satisfactory as the arrangement is destitute of precedent? If greater prominence is sought for, it would be better to raise the analogous stall of the higher range a step or two. The pulpit stands at the north-east angle of the nave. The dimensions are :nave, 60 feet 6 inches by 21 feet 6 inches; arcade, 2 feet in breadth; aisle, 11 feet broad; chancel, 25 feet by 21 feet 6 inches. The tower is bevelled into a somewhat sharp octagonal broach, with spire lights on the four cardinal faces; these are represented as hipped, a design which we would counsel Mr. Teulon to rectify, as it does not appear to us to correspond well with the motif of the remaining design. The belfry story too should rise clear of the roof. The buttresses of the nave are plain; those of the chancel pedimented.

S.Mary, Harrington, Lincolnshire.—-We doubt whether we should class this church (Middle-Pointed), by Mr. Teulon, under new churches or restorations. The plan is composed of nave and chancel, both destitute of aisles, a western tower, and a south porch in the most western bay. The vestry stands to the north of the chancel; there is no west entrance in the tower, which has a two-light window, and is filled with loose seats. The tower-arch is old. The nave is lighted to the north by three singlelight windows with traceried heads, and in the most eastern bay by a window of two lights. To the south there are two two-light windows, and in the eastern bay a three-light window, with a Templar's tomb preserved in situ under it. The font stands just under the tower-arch to the south; the seats face eastwards, except in the eastern bay of the nave, where they are turned southward to face the pulpit and desk, which stand in one block in the south-west angle of the chancel-arch, approached by steps which come in front of the Templar's tomb and window. We earnestly hope this arrangement may not be persisted in. The pulpit is of stone; the chancel-arch is supported on corbels, and the chancel itself has a satisfactory rise of three steps, save where they are cut off by the desk-pulpit block; the chancel is fitted with stall-like seats. A canopied tomb from the old church stands to the east of the southern row, and an Elizabethan high tomb facing to the north; the chancel is lighted to the south by a two-light window, and in the sanctuary by a triangular window with spherical sides, much recessed, and comprising a rose which contains three trefoils. The answering window on the north is a couplet, with tracery in the heads, set internally in a trefoiled hood; the east window is of three lights; the organ stands between the vestry and the chancel. No spire is shown in the designs.

NEW SCHOOLS, ETC.

A PRETTY and simple but picturesque building has been designed for a school to hold 106 children, at Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, by Mr. White. There is a schoolroom, with a very small lodging attached, under a sloping roof. The chief gable shows a window of three unequal trefoil-headed lights, under a common arch. The walls are to be of rubble-work, with quoins, doors and windows of dressed stone: the roof of tiles, and the floor of wood bricks laid herring-bone fashion.

Poynings, Sussex.—Mr. Teulon has designed schools for this locality. Advantage has been taken of the slope of the ground to introduce steps. There is only one schoolroom to be divided by a curtain, but we are glad to note separate entrances, cloak-rooms, yards, and conveniences for the boys and girls. The fireplace in the schoolroom is single. We should prefer two in a room intended both for boys and girls. This fireplace has a window over it. The schoolhouse has a wooden turret, and further picturesque effect is produced on the master's house by a two-storied oriel square on the ground floor, and bevelling above into a half hexagon.

Compton, Berks.-This vicarage, by Mr. Teulon, is a picturesque building in red brick, with patterns in black, which would, however, with advantage be more extensively spread over the face of the building. An ingenious and not unpleasing device is adopted in the staircase window, which has an horizontal head, and is stepped in three in the sill. The accommodation comprises three bedrooms and two nurseries on the first-floor. A great deal seems to be done for the very moderate cost at which it is to be erected.

Compton, Berks.-These schools, also by Mr. Teulon, are a smaller and simpler design; also with a single schoolroom, and also, we are glad to say, with the three bedrooms to the house. The design is neat. Wooden tracery is employed.

We have also seen, with much pleasure, the drawings of a very simple and inexpensive cottage for the chaplain at Arley Hall, in Cheshire. This is by Mr. White, who has also restored the Warburton Cross in the same village. The head of this would be better, we think, without the cuspings.

CHURCH RESTORATIONS.

S. Mary, New Shoreham, Sussex.—We can quite sympathise with the energetic Vicar of New Shoreham, in his earnest desire to rebuild the nave of his splendid church; and we are very glad that he has entrusted