. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 68 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL, [March, ever they be useless and are merely for show, the architect would have certainly done well to have omitted them. Where there is much to praise it is very painful to have to find fault; truth and consistency however compel us to stato that there are many things in the interior arrangement of the churcli wliich cannot be praiseil. There are galleries intersecting the piers and blocking up the side windows ; the shafts attach
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 68 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL, [March, ever they be useless and are merely for show, the architect would have certainly done well to have omitted them. Where there is much to praise it is very painful to have to find fault; truth and consistency however compel us to stato that there are many things in the interior arrangement of the churcli wliich cannot be praiseil. There are galleries intersecting the piers and blocking up the side windows ; the shafts attached to the piers have poor bases which are hoisted on a species of stilts to the level of the pew-seats. But above all there is an appearance of unrca;;;;/, objectionable in all kinds of architec- ture, but perfectly indefensible in that kind which ought to be the very highest and most truihful—church architecture. The walls of the church and of the staircases are coated with plaster on which black lines are drawn to imitate, or rather, mimic the courses of real masonry. Some of the window mouldings are "run" in cement, and are the more deceplive because the mullions and corbels are of stone. The same remark applies to the shafts attached to the piers, which are partly of stone and partly imitations; the piers themselves are all of plaster decorated with the black lines aforesaid. The pews are of stained deal. Of the value of this ma- terial we have pronounced a sudiciently explicit opinion in another part of our present number. It may be added that here the coarse shapeless knots of the wood and the harsh lines of the grain have a very disagreeable effect The glazed and shining appearance of varnish is, to our taste at least, very objectionable. This however is merely an individual opinion,—but it is a matter of certainty that the effect is very unchurchlike. We regret also to find the appearance of sham windows—indentations or shallow recesses in the plaster of
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