. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1843.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 105 is ; in fact, very frequently the whole chureh may be built or faced with such stonework as cheap as with brickwork. " How often do we," says the Eeelesiologist, " see a simple village church, consisting, it may be, of low and rough stone walls, surmounted, and almost overwhelmed, by an immense roof, and pierced with some two or three plain windows between as many bold irregular buttresses on each side, or h
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1843.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 105 is ; in fact, very frequently the whole chureh may be built or faced with such stonework as cheap as with brickwork. " How often do we," says the Eeelesiologist, " see a simple village church, consisting, it may be, of low and rough stone walls, surmounted, and almost overwhelmed, by an immense roof, and pierced with some two or three plain windows between as many bold irregular buttresses on each side, or having a short massive tower placed at one corner, or in some seemingly accidental position, which nevertheless every one confesses to be as picturesque and beautiful and church-like an edifice as the most critical eye or the most re- fined taste could wish to behold. And just such another church could be built, perhaps, for seven or eight hundred pounds; while a modern early- English design, with all its wouldtbe elegancies of trim regular built buttress, tripellancet, and curtailed chancel, would contain no more kneelings, cost more than twice the money, and look like a ' gothick factory' after all. And why is this ? Because a lofty tower must be built instead of a simple unpre- tending chancel; or because one-half of the money is expended first in pro- curing, ond then in smoothing and squaring, gTeat masses of stone, or in working some extravagant and incongruous ornament, so that cast-iron pillars must be placed iu the interior instead of piers and arches; whereas the small and rude hammer-dressed Ashlar, or rubble work, of the ancient model, has a far better appearance, and allows a larger expenditure where it is most wanted, in procuring solid, handsome, aud substantial arrangements for the ; EDGE'S IMPROVED GAS METER. Considerable excitement has lately been raised respecting the gas meters, in consequence of Mr. Flower issuing a pamphlet accusing the gas co
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