Architecture And Archæology.

openwork ; and the carved ends of the corbels have been replaced . The floor of the church contains a slab to the memory of the vicar , whose remains were laid beneath it before the work was completed . The lantern tower of Ely cathedral is about to be rebuilt . The cost will be between £ 5000 and £ 6000 . The new lantern , like present one , will be of oak and cased Avith lead ; the windows will be Gothic . The roof of the nave of the cathedral and the inner ceiling are now under repair .

The church of Fordhani , Essex , has recently undergone internal and partial external renovation . The chancel has had the thick coat of plastering removed from the outside ; and the flint work , which was found to be in good condition , has been fresh pointed in blue mortar , and restored . A new coping has been placed upon the east gable , and the old cross restored . The windows throughout have had

new tracery heads , ancl the old mullions re-worked and filled with cathedral glass . A new east window , the gift of the rector , the Rev . W . H . Herring , B . A ., has been added , with a border of stained glass , and filled with I . H . S . quarries , intermixed Avith others of a suitable pattern . The old high pews have been removed , the floor of the church throughout raised 4 in . as a preventive of damp , and the aisles paved

Avith red and buff' Staffordshire tiles . Open deal benches , stained oak colour and varnished , have been substituted for the high peivs , thus giving fifty additional sittings ; and in the chancel , benches with carved poppy-heads have been introduced of pitch pine and stained . The arches to arcades have been cleaned aud restored , and the tower arch at the Avesfc end , which has hitherto been blocked up and plastered over , has been opened and restored . The north doorway has been re-opened , and the new oak door added . The cost of the restoration exceeds £ 700 .

A new Baptist chapel has been opened at Kettering . The chapel was commenced in May , 1860 . The style may be said to be Lombardic , with Gothic ifi the details . The front is built of Ancaster stone , ornamented by a pediment with a one-storied porch , the whole enriched with coloured tiles , and some carving . The chapel will seat about 850 people . It is 70 ft . long , 50 ft . Avide , and 30 ft . high under the

tie-beams , with a covered panelled plaster ceiling , and a second cove rising as high as the collar-beams , at which level there are four sky-lights , which light the upper cove , and serve the purpose of ventilation . The minister stands in a semi-circular carved oak platform , projecting from an ornamented Caen stone recess , with approach from behind . The end gallery ancl seats under are semicircular in lan .

p All the interior woodwork is of clear varnished deal or oak . It is lighted by pendant starlight gas burners , and heated by water pipes . Behind ancl adjoining the chapel is a deacons' and minister ' s vestry , ancl lecture room , 40 ft . and 20 ft ., and a school room over , 90 ft . and 20 ft . The whole cost , including materials from old chapel , is about £ 4000 , raised

by voluntary subscriptions . At one extremity of the village Stopley , Bedfordshire , a church has been lately erected . The style chosen is Early English . The church consist of nave and chancel , built of grey brick , ancl freestone dressings . The length of the building is about 80 ft ., and the height to the ridge of the roof about 40 ft . The west gable is terminated by a bell

turret , and the east gables by ornamental crosses . The stone pulpit is divided into panels by dog-tooth ornament ; these are charged Avith monograms and sentences , coloured , Rusington Church , Littlehampton , after having undergone a repair ancl renovation , has been reopened . The repairs include entire re-roofing . Of the other parts , the lan adhered to has beenas far as possibleto the

p , , preserve original designs , with open seats . The pulpit and reading desk are of old oak , from the cathedral debris , in Gothic , and tbe communion chairs are of the same material , from Etching ham Church , before its restoration , and the design is " constructed without the aid of glue , nail , or peg . " The mural monuments are many , and have had attention . The The cost has exceeded £ 1300 .

The memorial church which has been built by the Marchioness of Ailesbury to the memory of her mother , Katherine , Countess of Pembroke , at Tottenham , Wilts , Avas consecrated on the 24 th ult . It is ultimately to be a

district church , and will supersede the private chapel till lately existing in the house at Tottenham . It is a large structure , consisting of nave , north aisle , north and south transepts , chancel with eastern end of polygonal form , vestry , and robing-room . The tower , placed at the angle of the nave and south transepts , forms in its lower stage the porch , giving entrance to the nave and south transept . The

tower is surmounted by a spire , reaching to a height of about 120 ft . The church is faced with flint , reliev-ed by horizontal bands of Sarsen stone , with Bath stone quoins , & c . ; the windoAVS , buttresses , and all the moulded stonework , with the spire , being of Bath stone : relieving arches of red , green , and grey stone are introduced over all the openings of the doors and windows . The whole of the interior

walls of the church are lined with Bath stone . The roofs are of open timber-work , boarded , and with carved bosses and spancb-ils ; there being no plastering used in any part of the building . The roofs are covered with dark-coloured tiles of different forms ; the chancel roof is crested with gilt ornamental iron work . The spire is surmounted by a carved finial Avith iron gilt vane . At the east end of the

exterior of the chancel is a broad flight of steps , flanked by spandril walls , enclosed by ornamental iron railings and gates , leading to the family vault , which extends under the whole space of the chancel . The style of architecture adopted is Geometric . Internally the transepts are separated from the nave by stone screens , filling up the whole area of the arch ; the tracery being supported bfour marble shafts

y of red colour , with carved capitals . The responds of arcade between the nave ancl north aisle are also of red Devonshire marble , and the carved corbels of the nave roof have similar shafts of marble resting upon them . The chancel arch mouldings are carried by carved stone corbels and red marble columns . The five sides of the eastern end of the

chancel are finished by a reredos of deeply-coloured majolica tiles of ecclesiastical design , surmounted by a text , also executed in majolica . The whole body of the nave and chancel is paved with Minton ' s tiles , of varied design ; those in the chancel combining rich patterns , in which blue , green , and white are introduced with the union of other colours . The gangways in the aisle , transepts , & c , are also paved

with Minton ' s tiles . In the north transept is placed the organ . The windows throughout the church are of stained glass , and contain whole-length figures and subjects taken from the Old and New Testaments . In the entrance porch ancl under a groined ceiling of stonework , is placed the memorial , in a crocheted canopy , surrounded by various sculptured emblems , and supported by angels . It is of

marble , dove-coloured , and the inscription is in gold letters . The building committee for the restorations of St . John ' s Church , Devizes , have entered into a contract for a portion of the works contemplated , at a cost of £ -1736 ; viz ., to rebuild the arcades , to put a new roof on the nave , to extend the nave and aisles one bay to the Avestward , and to seat the new bay . There was a deficiency of funds for these works ; but the late rector guaranteed £ 100 in addition to his former

contribution of £ 25 ; ancl the new rector guaranteed £ 100 . Latton Church , Cricklade , Wilts , has been restored and re-opened . During the incumbency of the present vicar , the south side of the nave has been rebuilt , the tower opened , and the transepts restored . One step- leads through the ancient Norman arch into the choir , which is fitted with , stalls of carved teak . The roof is sujDported by open timber

work . Two steps then lead through a pointed arch into the sanctuary , the roof of which is of stone vaulting , with pointed arched ribs . Another step leads to the footplace , Avhere the altar stands on a slab of Purbeck marble surrounded by encaustic tiles . The walls of the sanctuary are ornamented with encaustic tiles . The east window is fitted Avith stained glass . One of the south windows of the

chancel is a memorial windoAV presented by Mr , J . Habgood , of Faringdon . The chief stone of a new church has been laid by Mrs . Adams , wife of the rector of Hawkchurch , Dorset . In the early part of last year the Rev . E . C . Adams stated to a A estry meeting the bad state of the church , and said if they would agree to have a new church the toAver would remain , and the whole amount which he , Mr . Adams , would ask tho rate-payers for would be only £ 250 , the parish to be allowed