. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1841.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 421 The competition for the new church at Paddington does not appear to have been an immaculate one, on the contrary, so conducted as to give rise to no little scandal. Among the competitors were several of note—Wild, VuUiamy, &c., and the fortunate one was a young architect of the name of Lindsay, whose design, which was in the Grecian style, w^as approved of by the committee. Mr. Lindsay was, however, doomed to be
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1841.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 421 The competition for the new church at Paddington does not appear to have been an immaculate one, on the contrary, so conducted as to give rise to no little scandal. Among the competitors were several of note—Wild, VuUiamy, &c., and the fortunate one was a young architect of the name of Lindsay, whose design, which was in the Grecian style, w^as approved of by the committee. Mr. Lindsay was, however, doomed to be convinced practically of the truth of the pro- verb, "Between the cup and the lip," for incredible as it niiiy seem, the committee afterwards thought fit to rescind their decision very cavalierly, entirely setting aside the whole affiiir of tlie competition, and appointing Mr. Gutch, a surveyor, and, as is asserted, actually one of the committee, as architect conjointly with Mr. Goldicutt. They—or one of them, but which we are unable to say—then pro- duced the present Gothic design, the expense of wiiich, it is under- stood, will not be at all under £10,000, although the competitors were limited in the first instance to £7,000; therefore it ought, at all events, to be something very superior to what was originally contem- plated. How far such be really the case, is what we have not the means of judging; but if the published lithograph view may be relied on as a tolerably ftiir representation of the building, we think the com- mittee have made after all an exceedingly bid bargain. In regard to style it is a mere jumble, while, looking at it merely as a composition, it is poor, trivial, and insipid. As to the manner in which the competition has been conducted, and the original competitors treated, should there be any error or mis- statement in our account of it, we shall be glad to be corrected, and to be assured that whatever the adopted design may be in itself
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