only nascent. This is at least a step gained upon the churches of the last century which were reared in the face of its old Cathedral and Abbey Churches.

S. Boniface, Brussels.-This new church, in the faubourg of Ixelles, is, as we learn from M. Van Overstraeten's work, in Pointed architecture; though unhappily he does not indicate the style. The architect is M. Dumont. The nave and aisles are of equal height; there is a central spire, and the chancel terminates in a polygonal apse. Our authority, who regrets that the site did not allow M. Dumont to give sufficient length to the structure, praises it as a successful work.

S. Joseph, Brussels.-This church, as we learn from the same authority, standing in the new quartier Leopold, and owning M. Suys as architect, is in revived Pagan. The dimensions are very considerable, 75 metres by 20. There are two western turrets, and the nave and aisles are of the same elevation. It is much to be regretted that at this time of day, the pseudo-classical style should have been selected for a church of such pretension.

NEW SCHOOL.

Marazion, Cornwall.—We thank Mr. St. Aubyn for the drawings of the good school here, which he has built for a lady in memory of her husband. The schoolroom is 36 feet by 18, and has a classroom attached as well as a master's house. The site is a precipitous slope from north to south, and the building is sufficiently effective; but the wall behind would have been better if " 'stepped" than following the slope of the ground. Mr. St. Aubyn has successfully avoided the mere domestic effect in this building. The dressings only of this school are of granite. It cost altogether about £800.

CHURCH RESTORATIONS.

Sherborne Minster.—We are glad to hear that the important works of the restoration of this church are again proceeding under Mr. Carpenter. The repair of the tower-piers is now begun, and it is hoped that the transepts will be thrown open in the early part of next year. The old buildings belonging to the Abbey have been given by Lord Digby to the Grammar School of Sherborne, and will it is hoped be restored in a way not to disgrace what has been done at the church: but as yet the governors of the school have come to no determination, we believe, as to the course they will adopt in this matter.

S. Denis, Stanford le Vale, Berks.-Some excellent internal improvements are in progress in this church. The chancel is to be rearranged, its levels restored, sedilia, and stalls, with subsellæ, to be introduced, and a low screen provided. In the nave, all the old pews are to be

lowered, and to be deprived of their doors; and moveable oak benches placed in the tower and various other parts, as models for the future reseating of the whole area. A western gallery is to be removed, and the tower re-opened to the church. The roof, a late and ugly one, is to be improved by the addition of curved braces, to some existing corbels. A curious hagioscope into the chancel from the north aisle has been discovered; it opens into the chancel by two arches divided by a shaft. The new sedilia are wooden, designed to match an existing stone embattlement, on the cill of the south east window. The new wood-work is of very satisfactory design. The architect is Mr. G. E. Street.

All Saints, Goosey, Berks.-This church, which is attached to the last named parish, has been re-arranged under the same incumbent, Dr. Wordsworth, of Westminster, by the same architect. It is a very small structure, consisting merely of nave and chancel. The chancel has a low screen, and four stalls on each side, from one of which the prayers are said. The nave is furnished with low open seats, of extreme simplicity. Unfortunately the chancel here was a few years ago incongruously rebuilt,-over its altar existed an ancient tester, painted with the emblems of the Passion: this disappeared, no one knows how, during the work.

S. Budoc, Cornwall.-A small Third-Pointed church; nave, chancel, tower, north aisle, south transept, south porch. A lancet window in the south chancel wall marks the former existence of a First-Pointed church. Some years ago the whole fabric was as entirely modernized as can be imagined. The stone windows (with the exception of the lancet, a window in the lowest stage of the tower, and a poor square debased one in the transept,) were taken out, and round-headed Venetian ones substituted, the interior was bepewed and whitewashed, and the open-work of the screen cut away. A wretched wooden vase was used as a font. Recently a partial restoration has been effected. The nave and chancel have been furnished with an open roof, tolerably managed, but not of sufficient pitch, and badly connected with that of the transept. The pews have been removed, but the low seats substituted have doors. Fair windows have taken the place of the Venetian ones, but the round splays of the latter have been retained. A solid altar-table of oak, a well designed stone font, and a poor-box of oak (from a design in No. I. of the Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, series 1.) have been presented to the church. Some fair stained glass has been introduced into the tracery of the windows. The east window is too small, and the aisle roof still exhibits plaister only. The arcades, which are well proportioned, have been freed from whitewash, as well as the transept arch, which for the size of the church is lofty and of good pitch. There yet remain the close base and part of the monials of the open part of a very handsome roodscreen. The sexton, who provided us with the keys of the church, a very old man, told us he recollected it as high as the capitals of the pillars. It is richly carved, and still retains considerable vestiges of polychrome. The lower part is divided into twenty-seven niches, with really beautiful carving of foliage, each niche containing a painting of a saint, roughly executed, but in

good preservation. These were formerly hidden by the high backs of pews, which are now removed. The prayers and lessons are read from a lettern, looking north.

All Saints, Worcester.-Mr. Truefitt has succeeded well in a very difficult task here. The church is a most miserable building of the last century. The architect besides repairing this unpromising fabric, has re-arranged the churchyard, and surrounded it with a wrought-iron railing of bold and original design, stepped down to suit the inequalities of level. He has also given a better character to a house at the west end of the church.

NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Churchman's Diary, for 1852, an Almanac and Directory for the Celebration of the Service of the Church, (Masters,) is now in the sixth year of its publication. We can recommend it as the best Directory we know of. Many of the hints and directions are truly useful; with others we should perhaps find some little fault, had we received the Almanac at an earlier period before our going to press. The tone assumed throughout is very dogmatic, but this is perhaps inseparable from a Directory. To many persons this will supply a want very extensively felt.

HERT.

A Guide to the Christian Antiquities of Edinburgh. By JAMES A. STOTIn four series. London and Edinburgh: Dolman. This little volume rather disappointed us. Instead of a guide, or ecclesiological manual, we found it to be a series of quasi-religious addresses to a guild or fraternity, in the course of which the historical associations, rather than the monuments of Edinburgh, are discussed in a gossiping, but pleasing, way. Mr. Stothert, we observe, is of opinion that there is "but a slender chance" of the rebuilding of the church of the Holy Trinity, which, as our readers will remember, was so carefully removed from its original site, that all its stones were numbered for reerection in a new position.

We reserve till next number a review of a very important and interesting work by Mr. Wilson, Honorary Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, entitled The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. (Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox; London, Simpkin and Co.) It is a complete account of the whole subject of which it treats; and is beautifully got up, and illustrated. The title would not of itself prepare a reader to expect, what however we are glad to find in this volume, a discussion on " Primitive" as well as

Mediæval Ecclesiology." Mr. Wilson by no means confines his studies to "Prehistoric" times; and we have a very intelligent account of the Romanesque and Pointed Architecture of Scotland, together with a careful table showing in parallel columns, the chronological list of

English and Scotch reigns, dates, and architectural styles, with a list of examples taken from Scotland, corresponding to the dates. But we must not here anticipate a longer notice, intended for our next number.

To the Editor of the Ecclesiologist.

Mr. EDITOR, I suppose few readers of the Ecclesiologist deny that the preservation of our Abbey remains,—those monuments of the piety and munificence of the churchmen of old, --is of first importance. No one would hear unmoved, that Rievaulx, Fountains or Tintern were levelled with the earth; and in numerous instances this feeling is not merely theoretical; great pains are bestowed to preserve many of those structures whose every stone contains a history; but such is not the case with all, in some the work of decay has made such rapid strides, that all hopes of rescue are vain. For instance, the west front of Crowland must soon be numbered among things that have passed away. But amongst the monastic ruins, which though long neglected, are not yet past hope of preserving, the one I would call attention to is the famous Abbey of Whitby. This pile, first founded in the 7th century, by the Northumbrian king Oswy, is yearly decaying more and more, and yet little or no means have been adopted to stop the work of destruction, though with very little expense, by judicious means being adopted to support and not disfigure its time-honoured walls, the rock of Whitby may still for ages wear the crown which (if no means for its preservation be taken) the storms from the German ocean must soon deprive it of.

That some means may be adopted, and promptly, is the earnest hope of

Your obedient Servant,

J. D. C. C. A. S.

S. John's College, Cambridge,
Νου. 1851.

To the Editor of the Ecclesiologist.

Truro, SS. Simon and Jude, 1851.

Sir,-As I am sure you will like the smallest errors in your notices to be pointed out, I write a line to say that the schools at Kea, Cornwall (mentioned in the Ecclesiologist for August, p. 296), were not from my designs, although those noticed immediately after, and said to be by "the same architect," are. Neither are they built of granite. They have granite dressings.

I remain, sir,

Your obedient servant,

WILLIAM WHITE.

W. W. should apply to an architect, not to a mere stone-cutter. He need not spend, probably, more than £10, in obtaining what he wishes; but that style is more costly than others, from the greater bulk required.

Received-A. S. Norton; (his question is scarcely definite enough.) I. R. G.; (under consideration.)

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