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four years to pay that amount . The church would cost somewhere about £ 2 , 000 ; and by the parish paying £ 250 , and the amounts that he should get from the Salisbury Diocesan Fund , and from the Building Society in London , he hoped to be enabled to carry out the works . The meeting agreed to make a church-rate towards the £ 250 , that sum to be paid in four years . The tower was repaired in the latter

part of last year , but the church was allowed to remain until July last , when it was found to be in a very bad state , and was pulled clown . The contract for the new church has been taken for £ 1 , 936 .

The parish church of Linbridge , Worcestershire , has been rebuilt from the foundation upon an enlarged plan , aud consists of a nave ancl south aisle , with tower and spire at the south-west angle , chancel , vestry , and organ chamber , with a crypt under the latter for warming the church . The design is Decorated Gothic . The walls are built externally with native stone , laid as random-ranged work , the various

dressings being executed in . free stone . All the interior constructional work and facings to Avails are executed out of Bath stone . The roofs are framed of oak , all the timbers being visible , lined with oak boarding , set diagonally , and covered externally with tiles . A sheeting of Croggon ' s felt is laid between the tiles aud oak boarding , to exclude draughts and regulate the the temperature . The sittings are all and

open , arranged to accommodate nearly 400 persons . The several floors will be cased with encaustic tiles . The south aisle is divided from the nave by a double arch , springing from carved wall corbels , aud carried in ' the middle upon a pillar with foliaged capital . It presents two gables to the south , Avith a three-light tracery-headed Avindow in each . The nave has to the north three two-light tracery-headed windows ,

and a four-light window to the west . The chancel is divided from the nave by a wide arch , springing from enriched corbels . The east window 7 of the chancel is composed of five lights , with tracery ; and on the south side of the chancel are two two-light tracery windows ; the easternmost one finishing inside as a sedile . Between the two windows is a priest's door . An archway decorated with ball flowers opens into the organ chamber on the north side . The tower is divided into three stages , the lower being used as a porch ;

tne west wall pierced with a two-light window ; and the next stage will be used as a ringing loft , and is approached by a geometrical stair . From the tower springs a broach spire , pierced above the broach with four spiz-e lights . All the windows throughout will be filled with painted glass . The foundations are being prepared for a new and handsome Carmelite church , about- to be erected on the best site

in Moate , Westmeath . "Within the past mouth a convent of the Sisters of Mercy has been founded and opened . In the grounds adjoining the the convent house , large and well-ventilated schools have been built , At the opposite end of the town another work is in progress , and on Monday se ' nni g ht the first stage of its accomplishment was reached . For many years there has been a Carmelite

convent and church in Moate , but in the lapse of time the old church began to decay , beside having become insufficient for the congregations . The venerable old church Avas crumbling , and it was determined to commence the erection of a new one over it . The commencement was made of what is substantially a new church , of a handsome Gothic style of architecture , and of much larger size

than the old edifice , One of the side aisles is complete , ancl as the additional space was required , it was opened on the day above noted . The building of the tower , which will be at the front of the church , is being rapidly carried on , aud will be complete in a few weeks . The chinch , when completed , will bo 38 ft . long by 38 ft . wide , including the nave and aisles , ivhich will open into one another by five Gothic arches at each side . The tower will be 126 ft . high , and the entire , when completed , will be a very interesting edifice .

There has just been laid the foundation-stone of a new Catholic church , with suitable ceremonial , ou the City Quay , Dublin . This new church will be 130 ft . in length in the interior , 34 ft . in width , ancl Sift , to the crown of the roof . It will comprehend nave , chancel , side chapels , belfry , sacristy , and porch . The building will be in the first period of Pointed architecture . Owing to the contracted nature

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ofthe site , there was not the smallest space for the customary buttresses , which involves the necessity of adding to the thickness of the walls , and also creates a difficulty in giving a graceful outline to the exterior . This difficulty the architect has overcome by forming the desired outline in the thickness of the wall . The quay front will be pierced by a window of five compartments , with lancet head , and two

moulded entrance doors . The chancel will be lighted by a triple lancet window . The roof will be of exposed and ornamental timber-work . The belfry will rise to a height of 85 ft ., crowned with a lofty pyramidal roof , terminating in a rich Medieval cross . A chapel of ease to the parish of St . Mary Major , Exeter , was consecrated on the 24 th ult ., and named St . Mary

Magdalen chapel . It consists of chancel 22 ft . by 16 ft ., communicating with a spacious vestry and organ arch between them ; nave , 66 ft . by 24 ft . ; north aisles , 57 t . by lift . The site is hemmed in by buildings . The building is of the Geometrical style , constructed of red Pocombe stone and Bath stone dressings . It has sittings for 413 persons . The pulpit is of Caen stone , entered through the south pier of the chancel arch . The font , also of Caen stone , has five shafts of Serpentine marble . The cost of the building exceeds £ 1700 .

From Westminster To London Bridge.

FROM WESTMINSTER TO LONDON BRIDGE .

BY A GHOST OF THE SIXTEENTH CEXTUEY * Could you add to yoiu kindness by informing me the most direct route to the Blue Boar Tavern , where I would fain take a cup of sack ? It is the hostelry of the Blue Boar , Eastcheap , or Escheppe , that I want to find . ' ¦ ' Sorry , I do not know it , " replied one , in a blue suit similar to that

of the person I had previously met with at the West-end of London : and who , I am told , is one of a body of several thousand officers who are now employed to preserve the peace of the metropolis . The sight " of these functionaries , by the way , causes me to ask , " Where are the beadles of the wards ? " " What has become of the City watch ?"—men of age and experience—somewhat feeble withal , but armed

with formidable catchpoles , halberds , and other weapons : it was a goodly sight to see them by the flash of lanthorns in the dark streets ; and not unpleasing , when awake in the uight , to hear them calling the hoars , and chanting some quaint old-fashioned tune , which reminded one of the passing time and the need of grace . These were our police in Queen Elizabeth ' s reign ; and , although Master William

Shakspeare , at the Globe , made us roar with laughter at caricatures of those Avorthies , many thought that they did pretty well . It is true , that rogues were sometimes troublesome , even to our good Queen herself ; and then the

Recorder , well bached , would go forth , ancl quickly dispose of these said rogues . In my days , a stranger would have but little difficulty in finding his way to Eastcheap ; for , from the old north gate of the bridge , which was a dark and frowning archway , with ponderous cloor of iron and wood , and other means of defence , surmounted by the heads of several offenders , the

thoroughfare ran in a straight line northward . New Fishstreet , Gracious-street , and Bishopsgate-street , led to a postern iu the City wall , a little to the east of the church of Ali-Hallows-in-the-Wall . Beyond this we knew the roadway by the name of Bedlam-gate : and so on to Shoreditch Church : outside the wall , two single rows of houses stretched as far as the church just named . There was

another row of houses running eastward to " St . Buttolp ' s Church -, " aud from thence to the Bars north of the Tower , East Minster , the Minories' Cross , Chry Church , Hoggelane , and St . Katharine ' s well known as straggling buildings in the neighbourhood of the ancient fortress . To return , however , to Shoreditch , —there were no houses north of the church ; and in the Spittle-fields , where the Romans , in times long past , were in the practice of burying their dead , there were only six tenements : in Moorfiekls were the Dog House , four or five windmills , and one or two houses . But