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Somewhat similar to the above is the new chapel at Buckhold, in the parish of Bradfield, Berks, built after the designs of Mr. Sampson Kempthorne. From an original drawing before us, it appears to be a very graceful structure, though without the elevation of the last. We should say the windows recede too much from the external surface of the wall, which must also subtract from the depth of their internal recesses. The bell turret seems more successful than in the last instance.

In many instances the church consists of a nave and chancel, so nearly equal in breadth, height or even in length, that the one appears a mere continuation of the other. Sometimes the two are also so similar in style, that one would almost suppose them of the same date; but generally this form is to be considered the result of accident, not of one harmonious design; yet

the effect of this form is more agreeable than if the building had been kept at an exactly equal breadth and height from one end to the other. Such appears to be the plan of the very curious old church of Barfreston, Kent, of which a very beautiful engraving has been lately published, the profits to be applied to the expenses of its repair and restoration.

Of a somewhat similar plan is the interesting church of Fugglestone or Fulstone, adjoining the town of Wilton, and close to the road, about three miles from Salisbury. It is remarkable for

for having been George Herbert's church, and is far superior to the Chapel of Ease at Bemerton, two miles nearer Salisbury, where Herbert built the parsonage, and where it exists to this day, with divers unsightly additions by the hand of Archdeacon Coxe. In this case the elegant chancel was probably the original church. The nave appears to be of a much later date. Our wood-cut is copied from an en

This peculiarity is not sufficiently expressed in our woodcut.

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graving in the Rev. Peter Hall's Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury, a work which reflects the greatest credit on that gentleman's taste. The building is now being repaired and beautified;-we hope not injudiciously altered ;-but our informant certainly saw pointed windows in the side of the nave, with oak mullions, which were being encrusted with sand "to look like" stone. When will people learn to prefer realities to appearances!

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As the bell turret of this church is remarkable both for its form, and for the mode in which it is supported, and as these are both points of great perplexity in building churches of this class, we have, through the kindness of a friend, procured an outside and an inside view of the west end. these, which do not pretend to more than hasty sketches, it appears that the west gable is increased at its apex to near treble its thickness, in order to support the turret in question. On the outside two piers project from the wall on each side the west window, and support an arch, on which rests one side of the octagonal turret. In the inside. the turret appears to let down two roots of masonry standing out in relief on the wall, and terminating on both sides of the window at the spring of its arch. Both these contrivances are more ingenious than graceful; but though they are not to be imitated, they still may furnish some useful hints. They seem, by the way, to be a sort of mimicry, on a small scale, of the bold but complicated apparatus which poises in mid air the gigantic spire of the neighbouring cathedral.

We see that one convenience of the simplest form of church is, that it can be added to; it can be made either the chancel or the nave of a larger building. It must also be remembered, that with this view, viz. the prospect of enlargement, meanness and pettiness are very inexpedient. A little church, with a little tower and a little chancel, is like a man that is wise in his own

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conceit; there is more hope of the simplest and rudest structure being improved, than of it.

Our next specimen is copied from the frontispiece of the British Magazine of December 1835. It is " a building suitable to the

double purpose of a chapel and schoolhouse," at Leavenheath,Suffolk, and at the date of the account we refer to, had apparently just been finished, but was only used for the latter purpose, the endowment being as yet wanting. It looks pretty in the drawing, but must be sadly deficient in dignity. We do not like these buildings for both purposes, not even the late Bishop of Sodor and Man's ingenious arrangement. They seem a pretence for making school-rooms serve for churches. The address, accompanying the engraving of this structure, says that owing to a late inclosure the population round it was rapidly increasing; but we fear it will not be easy to enlarge their Church according to that increase. The writer is somewhat over anxious to inform the public how cheaply churches may be founded; and with this view gives, with apparent cheerfulness, the following picture of hopeless pinching poverty.

"The estimate for the building was 2681., but in this sum was included an outer furnace, and flue through the building covered with flagstones. Without a gallery the building will hold 180 persons. It is internally 36 feet by 18 feet, 12 feet high to the wall plate; the chancel end is 10 feet by 12 feet. The foundation and walls are of brick, and the roof of tiles."

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we are informed gives a very incorrect and inadequate idea of the structure, we have taken St. Mary's Church, Redlynch, Downton, Wilts, a new Capel of Ease in a populous district. The nave is 54 ft. by 29 in the clear. The chancel 18 ft. by 17 ditto. Total number of stttings 420; of which 60 only are appropriated. A gallery at the west-end contains about 100. Brick, Bath and PortJand stone: cost about 1,600 l., raised chiefly by voluntary contributions. We need scarcely say that the proportions of this church are not to our taste. The bell turret is not more successful than most other attempts to get over this difficulty. Would not the appearance of the building be much improved by a tower?

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A very beautiful chapel has just been completed at Otterrbourne, in the parish of Hursley, near Winchester, on a scale and in a style considerably above the usual I run of modern village churches. [ We understand the Church is chiefly indebted for it to the zeal and taste of a gentleman of the place, whose example we trust will be followed by a few other squires. L The interior is enriched with the : finest works in wood and stone, partly collected, partly executed

for this purpose. The exterior is of brick burnt blue, and stone windows, &c. the whiteness of which at present creates too strong. a contrast with the other material. For the singular bell turret, we doubt not there is good precedent, as everything has been done with the utmost care; but to our eyes, as we see it in the exquisite lithograph before us, it seems too large and cumbrous. The porch also, if porch it be, at the west-end looks rather diminutive, especially when compared with its neighbour above. The shape is a cross with short arms.

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NOTICES OF BOOKS.

MR. Gresley, in his Sermons on "Zeal and Moderation, preached before the University of Oxford" (Rivingtons), writes like a man who had something to say, which is one of the highest praises we can give a sermon. He understands that at the present moment a great problem lies before our Church, how to be what it once was without ceasing to be what it is, how to adapt primitive principles to existing circumstances without sacrificing the former or overshooting the latter. They are the sermons of an able and reflecting mind, which has attained to great truths and is consolidating its acquirements.

"Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, by the Rev. S. Wilberforce" (Burns), are eloquent and pleasing discourses on practical subjects, which must have been very effective in delivery; they abound in references to the Fathers, a style of preaching suited to, and which we are glad hereby to find sanctioned by, the learned body whom Mr. Wilberforce in these sermons represents.

A very beautiful and useful selection of Prayers and Meditations on the subject of the Holy Eucharist has been published by the Rev. S. Wilberforce, under the title of Eucharistica.

We are glad to find that a new edition of Dr. Field's Book of the Church is in the course of publication, in three volumes, 8vo., (Bohn), under the able editorship of Mr. Brewer.

The first number has appeared of one of the most important works of the day, The New General Biographical Dictionary, projected and partly arranged by the late Mr. Hugh James Rose, and edited by his brother, assisted by the contributions of many distinguished persons. It is no bad compliment to them to say the number before us was an agreeable surprise. We did not realize beforehand that it could be, at the same time, so comprehensive, and yet so interesting. We will particularize the lives of Abelard, Archbishop Abbott, and his brother, Lord Colchester, Abdel-Munen, and various other Mahometan Califs, Abernethy, Addison, Ælfric, and Adams, the Patriarch of Pitcairn's Island. The present work proposes to itself a middle plan between manuals and those voluminous biographies which are libraries in themselves; it must be observed, that from the nature of the case, every year takes away from the value of existing works of this class, and increases the call for new ones.

Mr. Benson has published "Discourses upon Tradition and Episcopacy” directed against persons whom he calls "Tractarians." He says the English Church "is not only constituted according to the Apostolic model, but it has enjoyed that blessing by an unbroken succession from the earliest times;" and that ministers in "Episcopal Churches" are by external call "clearly to be reckoned among the legitimate successors of the Apostles in their ministerial office." Had Mr. Benson but said this six years ago, when there was more call for it than at present, probably he would not be writing

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