1075. All Saints' Church, Thelwall. I. M. Allen. A plain church, composed of nave and chancel, the windows are single lights. The tower is at the southern angle of the west part crowned with a spire, the roofs have a high pitch, and the design, on the whole, possesses some degree of originality. The sacristy is erected against the wall of the nave; this is incorrect, in accordance with ancient example it should have been built against the chancel. 1118. South-west view of a design for enlarging the parish church of All Saints, Leamington Priors. J. G. Jackson. There is a peculiar feature in this design not met with in modern churches; this is a detached campanile for the peal of bells. The church is a large cruciform edifice, with central tower and spire. The campanile, a square tower with pinacles, is situated near the north-west angle of the structure. The detail of the whole is late, approaching to the Tudor style, which is injudicious, as the depressed character of the style does not harmonize with a spire, which is a feature of an earlier date than the style in which the church is erected. 1119. Approved design of a new church to be built at Woolwich. E. H. Fowler. There are many good points in this design. The style of architecture fluctuates between the lancet arch and the flowing tracery of Edward the Third's reign. It consists of a nave and aisles, transept, and north porch, and has a central tower and spire, the latter too much crowded with spire lights, which greatly injure the design. The clerestory to the nave has triangular windows composed of three segments, and inclosing the like number of smaller triangles; it is a very pleasing form for windows in this situation. The transept window is composed of six lancets, all of one height, which has an unpleasing effect, resembling too closely the squareheaded window of late Tudor work. 1135. West elevation of a church to be erected for the united parishes of Carlton and Chellington, Bedfordshire. E. B. Lamb. The only novel feature is the tower, which is placed on one side of the structure instead of the west end, as usual in modern churches-the elevation is however broken into parts, the lower portion being square, the next octagonal, the third a dwarf spire; it is surprising that architects cannot see any beauty in the simplicity of the ancient church spire, springing at once from the tower without any intermediate story. 1142. Holy Cross Church now erecting at Leeds. J. M. Derick. A structure which will excite great interest from its being understood to be erected at the charge of an Oxford divine eminent for high talent and piety, and equally distinguished by the harsh and unfair treatment which he has sustained. The design however is any thing but what it ought to have been; showy and modern, it is more like a chapel in a fashionable watering place, built to attract pew-renters, than a church to which we might look, as a model of reality and propriety in church building. It is a cross church, having nave and aisles, transept and choir; the architecture is late, or rather modern gothic, the windows large; a forest of pinnacles, a square tower, with a spire also crowded with pinnacles, and a general gaudiness about the building, show that the design partakes largely of the usual faults of new churches. The nave has a clerestory, which is unnecessary from the extent of the other windows. On the western gable is a small bell-turret. In fact there is throughout a mixture of correct ecclesiastical forms with debased detail. 1147. Marston Church, Somersetshire, now under alteration for the Hon. and Rev. R. C. Boyle. E. Davis. The old structure was an ancient church modernized and spoiled; the present design is of an anomalous Norman character. The old tower has had four turrets added to it in the usual modern Norman style, and a dwarf spire, and the chancel has received the addition of two smaller transepts. The architect has attempted to do too much; if he had contented himself with restoring the ancient church to its original simplicity, he would have earned more fame than by changing it to a structure of a showy and unmeaning character. 1182. St. Bartholomew's Church, Bethnal Green. W. Railton. An interior. There are some good features about this design. The architecture is lancet, with an eastern window of five lights; the chancel is far too shallow; it has an arch on corbels dividing it from the nave. 1183. Design for the new Church at Torquay. J. Brown. This is also an interior, and is in very good taste. The architecture is in the lancet style; it has a nave, aisle, and chancel; the roof is timber, with arched principals. It is a very good modern 1193. View of the Chancel of the new the pannelled stone altar raised on a flight The last ecclesiastical design which we shall notice is the only one in which Italian architecture is used; it is far inferior in church-like character to its Gothic rivals. 1099. St. Mary's Church, now erecting at St. Peter and St. Paul's College, Prior Park, Bath. J. J. Scoles. This is an interior view of a plain chapel, composed of a nave and aisles, separated by a Corinthian colonnade, and covered with a waggon-head ceiling; the eastern termination is an apse. It is a college chapel, and has little that is ecclesiastical in its appearance. As an appendage to an Italianized building, the architect had probably no choice, and was obliged to accommodate his design to the style of the main structure. from the Surrey side of the river, near the foot of the new Hungerford Bridge. C. Barry. Mr. Barry has borrowed the effect of an Italian sun to set off his building, enriching the points of every pinnacle and tower with living gold, and bringing out every shallow projection which can produce the faintest shadow; but let the actual building be viewed from Lambeth, either above or below Westminster Bridge, with the exhalations of the Thames rising into a London fog, and the aspect will appear strikingly dissimilar. The rich carvings and niches which cover the design, even with the statues which they contain, will scarce be discernible from either of the points of view under the influence of a London atmosphere. We fear at either place a very sharp sight will be required to see the ornaments at all. The Victoria tower forms a grand feature in the design. There is also an attenuated spire in the centre of the design, we presume for the purposes of ventilation. The clock tower is another lofty structure. These features are visible enough; but the main building wants boldness in its projections to render it a a distauce so trifling as the points of views selected by the architect. Such shewy drawings as these had better be avoided; they are too often merely apologies for a bad design. 1219. Design for an extension of the 1059. Memorial to a Lady, now erecting striking object at even at Munich. J. M. Derick. The design is intended to resemble an ancient cross: it commences with a square pedestal, above which the elevation becomes octagonal. The transition is too abrupt, and not in accordance with the graceful tapering of the old designs, which never change from one form to another so suddenly as to displease the eye. 1180. View of the intended Choristers' School, St. Mary Magdalene, College, Oxford. J. C. and C. Buckler. A plain and simple structure, in the style of the college, and appropriate for the purpose for which it is designed. 1186. View of the new Palace at Westminster, as it will appear from Lambeth. 1196. The same, as it would appear Banqueting House, Whitehall, on the site of Gwydir House. Wyatt and Brandon. "A design for effectually injuring the fabric of Inigo Jones" would be the more proper designation of the subject, which is really nothing more than the erection of a counterpart of the present building, at a short distance, the two being united by a mean centre with two clumsy towers. Respect to the memory of Inigo Jones we trust will prevent this design from appearing anywhere except on paper. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. June 6. The Dean of Hereford exhibitted the episcopal rings of bishop Mayo (died 1516) and that of another bishop, found in their graves in Hereford cathedral. John Britton, esq. F.S.A. exhibited some drawings of Malmesbury abbey church and other architectural subjects of interest. John Nicholl, esq. F.S.A. of Islington, communicated some newly discovered facts Sir Harris respecting Isaack Walton. Nicolas, in his Life of Walton, observes, "Not a single fact can be stated respecting him from the time of his baptism until he attained his 20th year, when he appears to have been a resident of London. Neither the cause nor the period of his removal from Stafford to the metropolis has been ascertained, though it is probable that he was apprenticed when very young to a distant relation of the name of Henry Walton, who was a haberdasher at Whitechapel." It now appears that Isaack Walton was made free of the Ironmongers' Company in 1617-18 by Thomas Grinsell. This fact does not greatly interfere with the supposition that he was apprenticed to Henry Walton. There is no entry in the Ironmongers' books of the year in which he was bound; Henry Walton may have died before he had completed his time, in which case Isaack was probably turned over to Grinsell to serve out the remainder. Henry Walton does not appear to have been a member of the Ironmongers' Company. In 1637 Isaack Walton was chosen warden of the yeomanry (or freemen), and in 1639 paid over the sum of 21. 78. 10d. the balance left in his hands after discharging the duties of that office. He is again mentioned in 1641: the Lord Mayor having addressed three several precepts to the city companies, to make a return of all their members, with their places of abode, and to raise certain sums of money which were "immediately required for the important affairs of the kingdom," &c. Walton was assessed with his brethren of the Ironmongers' Company, and is then described as Isacke Wal. ton of the parish of St. Dunstons in the West, and contributed for his proportion the sum of 31. Beyond this period no further mention is found of him, ex. cept in an account of arrears of quarterage. Thomas Grinsell was a liveryman of the Ironmongers' Company; in his will, which is dated the 14th January, 1640, and was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 13th of June, 1645, he is described as Tho. Grinsell, Paddington, citizen and ironmonger. He bequeaths 201. to the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, where he lately resided, and he appoints his son-in-law Henry Valentine, D.D. and Isaack Walton, citizen and ironmonger, his over Beers. Mr. Nicholl also exhibited a roll of the pedigree of Lloyd of Cownwy co. Montgomery, made by John Cain of Oswestry in 1633, and emblazoned with many shields of arms. The Rev. George Munford, of East Winch, Norfolk, made a communication relative to a monument of the Howard family existing in that church. June 13. W. R. Hamilton, esq. V.P. The Rev. David Jones, Incumbent of St. Mary's Kirkdale, near Liverpool, au- ' thor of The Patriarchal Religion of Britain, or a complete Manual of Ancient British Druidism," and James Wallis Pycroft, esq. of Great College-street, Westminster, were elected Fellows of the society. Dawson Turner, esq. F.S.A. exhibited four books of beautifully executed drawings illustrative of the ecclesiastical antiquities of Norfolk. 1. Of the painted screen at Martham, with a series of saints, about half life-size, in fine preservation. 2. Of the ancient altar-cloth at Ling. This is 7 feet long by 34 wide, and formed of curious pieces of cloth richly wrought in embroidery, with gold and silver thread, presenting rather a patchwork appearance at present. A part of the cloth is of nearly the same pattern, of feathered angels, &c. as the cloth at St. Thomas at ~ Salisbury, engraved in the History of that city, lately published. 3. Of a casket of stamped leather for the sacramental chalice, a piscina, a beau tiful painting of a saint, and a figured pavement-tile, in Cawston church. The casket is 23 inches high; on its lid is a griffin segreant, surrounded by the legend + IHESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDEORVM. Around the side are seven shields: 1. Gyronny of four pieces; 2. a lion rampant guardant; 3. three crosslets fitchée and on a chief two molets pierced (Clinton ?); 4. a cross engrailed (Ufford); 5. Bezanty, a canton ermine (Zouche); 6. a maunche (Hastings); and 7. a lion rampant debruised by a bendlet gobonée. The 4th book we did not see. George Grant Francis, esq. Hon. Librarian of the Institute of South Wales, at Swansea, exhibited an acquittance, on parchment, of Sir Rees ap Thomas, in 9 Hen. VII. releasing the lands of his ward and son (in law) Edward Stradling from payment of their rents to himself, in favour of their owner. It is sealed with a small square seal of a raven surmounted by the letter R, which is made on a slit of the parchment without a label. Sir Rees was a Knight of the Garter, and lineal ancestor of the present Lord Dynevor. William Wansey, esq. F.S.A. presented a copy of the fac-simile drawings, in colours, of the Pageant of the Fishmongers' Company on Lord Mayor's day 1616, made by Mr. Henry Shaw, F.S.A. and accompanied by an illustrative dissertation by Mr. John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. which have been privately printed at the expense of the Company, in a large folio size. The reading was then continued of the order book of Major-Gen. Lambert and the Council of War sitting in Yorkshire in the year 1647. June 20. Richard Yates, esq. of St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors' Commons, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. Brown exhibited a small seated idol, of pure gold, found on the margin of the lake of Guativite, situated on the summit of a ridge of mountains about eight leagues from Santa Fé de Bogota, the capital of Columbia. This lake, previously to the conquest of New Granada by the Spaniards, was considered sacred by the natives of that country, and they were accustomed at certain periods to throw into it their treasures as offerings to their deities. The scenery around the lake is magnificently romantic, and well calculated to make a powerful impression on the human mind. By the remains still to be seen of extensive works, it is evident that various attempts had been made by the Spaniards to drain the lake, and it is on record that about eighty years ago so much gold was got out, that the quinto to the crown amounted to upwards of eighty thousand dollars. At that time also an emerald of immense value was found, and sent to Madrid. A company has of late been formed in Bogota for the express purpose of effectually draining the lake, and, from the judicious measures adopted and the progress already made, there is no doubt it will be accomplished. This golden idol, which formed part of the collection of His Royal Higness the Duke of Sussex, was found near the mar gin of the lake, and was presented to James Hamilton, esq. by General Santander, Vice-President of Columbia. municated a drawing of an ancient vessel found in 1843 in digging the foundation of the Savings Bank at Chelmsford, and presented to the Chelmsford and Essex Museum by Mr. James Moss. It is supposed to have had two handles (one of which is lost), and each was also a spout. Its only ornament is a row of nail-head knobs. Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, exhibited an oblong brass box containing a dial, a mariner's compass, and various tables, formerly called a Viatorium or German Ring. The present specimen is marked B. S. 1587, and belongs to J. B. Heath, esq. F.S.A. the Sardinian Consul-General. A. J. Kempe, esq. F.S.A. exhibited a copy by Albin Martin, esq. made by permission of the Duke of Sutherland, of an ancient portrait now in his Grace's gallery at Sutherland House, said to be that of Cardinal John Kempe, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 1453. Mr. Kempe entered, on the authority of a MS. in the British Museum, at some length into the memoirs of the Cardinal, who was born at his patrimonial seat of Ollantigh, in the parish of Wye in Kent, A.D. 1380. He noticed his acts of munificence and those of his nephew Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, to Merton college, Oxford, his diplomatic employments as Custos Privati Sigilli in the reign of Henry V. and as Lord Chancellor in that of Henry VI. The authenticity of the portrait of Cardinal Kempe rests on the authority of Walpole, who probably inserted in his Catalogue of the Collection at Strawberry Hill such account as he had received with the picture. Mr. Kempe pointed out that certain panels which have been associated with this portrait and that assigned to Cardinal Beaufort were not by the same hand. One of these panels, representing a man in the act of adoration in a stable, bears the arms of Tate impaling Boleyn; another is said, in Walpole's Catalogue, to represent Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. Mr. Kempe's paper was accompanied by a diagram shewing that this last panel was part of a group depicting The Wise Men's Offering; that the centre part of the composition, the Virgin and Child, was wanting; that the man kneeling in a stable was certainly Joseph, and completed the picture. The two panels said to represent Beaufort and Kempe, whatever the authenticity of their designation, were certainly distinct and by another hand. Observations on these pictures have already been inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine, N. S. vol. xviii. pp. 24 and 187. Mr. Martin's copy of the portrait attributed to Cardinal Kempe John Adey Repton, esq. F.S.A, com- is a very spirited and faithful delineation Mr. C. Roach Smith exhibited, 1. a drawing of a fresco painting in Godshill church, Isle of Wight, by Mr. John A. Barton, representing Christ crucified on a tree or shrub, with mottoes on the side, one only legible, Ora pro nobis Domine. 2. Drawing of a fresco of a late date, found in pulling down Mr. Mason's house in Chichester. 3. A Runic almanac belonging to Mr. Crafter of Gravesend, formed of several wooden leaves strung together. 4. A rubbing of the brass of Margery Arundell, in Anthony church, Cornwall, communicated by Charles Spence, esq. of Devonport. The inscription is as follows: "Hic jacet Margeria Arundell quondam d'na de Est Anthon' filia Warini Erchedeken militis que obijt xx°vj° die Octobr' A d'ni M°ccccxx cuius a'i'e p.picietur deus." of the original, which, as a work of art of the 15th century, has considerable merit. The Society then adjourned to the 14th of November. Archæological Association. The first annual meeting of the British Archæological Association is fixed for the second week in September, and will be held at Canterbury, under the presidency of Lord Albert Conyngham, who proposes to open at that time several of the Saxon barrows near his seat at Bourne Park. Mr. Pettigrew proposes to unfold an Egyptian mummy, and explain whatever points of interest may occur in its developement. The ancient monuments of the city, its museum and public establishments, will be freely thrown open. SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES. This society met at Copenhagen on the 27th of May, under the presidency of the Crown Prince. The most important publication of the society during the past year is an edition of the ancient Sagas of Iceland, embracing the annals of that island and its inhabitants from the ninth to the fourteenth century. The first volume contains two works by Iceland's earliest historian, Are, surnamed Frode, or the Learned (b. 1068, d. 1148). In the latter are related the earliest voyages of discovery from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Norway, with the emigration to Iceland caused by the conquests of Harold Haarfager. To the "Historical Monuments of Greenland" two supplements have been added by Dr. Pingel, who, having resided and travelled for some time in that country, undertook to draw up a general account of the most important expeditions which have been made in modern times from Denmark and Norway, to explore the various localities which have been brought to light by the exertions of the society. A new edition of Rafn's Memoir on the Discovery of America, being a supplement to his great work the Antiquitates Americanæ, was laid before the meeting, together with communications from the American section, confirmatory of the learned author's views and deductions. The Memoires, 18401843, contain a disquisition on the connexion between Sanscrit and Icelandic; a Memoir of Einar Sokkason, the Greenlander, translated from the Icelandic; an account of human remains and remark. able antiquities found at Fall River, Massachusetts, &c.; Remarks on two Icelandic chairs with ornamental carving and Runic inscriptions; and a description of the frontiers between Norway, Sweden, and Russia, in the Middle Ages, taken from an ancient vellum MS. It was stated that H.R.H. the President had caused several barrows on the Fockr island to be opened and examined during the preceding summer. In one of these was found an urn, surrounded and overlaid with iron articles. The urn was filled with burnt bones, upon which lay an iron buckle bent together after having been exposed to fire, and which had probably belonged to a shield or head ornament; four fragments of a remarkable iron sword, thirty inches in length, lay also above the urn; this had evidently been submitted to the action of fire, and then broken or bent together, as if to prevent the weapon being again used. It was generally supposed that the similar fragments of swords in the museum had become broken and injured by the effect of rust and time, but it would now appear that they were intentionally placed in that condition at the time of being deposited in the earth. 243. A dagger of the Crusaders-21. 88. 246. A pair of ancient sollerette stirrups-31. 248. A hauberk, of chain mail, of European workmanship-21. 48. 276. A complete cap-a-pié suit of knight's steel armour, of the fifteenth century, remarkable for the form of its treble-jointed breast and back, helmet, and tuilles. From the Royal Arsenal of Constantinople-33 guineas. 278. A knight's suit of bright steel German armour, with strong visored helmet, having a small door in the vizor. (It was the sudden opening of this door which occasioned the death of Henry II. of France, when tilting with Gabriel Count of Montgomerie, in 1559)—25 gui neas. 281. An engraved suit of knight's armour, of singular form and great weight. 30 guineas. |