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Our Architegtxteal Chapter.
labour of the members is gratuitous , but a work so large cannot be undertaken without some literaiy remuneration : and in the last year the sum of £ 118 was paid in small fees for manuscript . We notice as one curious fact , that at Toronto , in Canada , the local honorary secretary has
disposed of copies to the amount of £ 3 G . 15 s . The expenses of the society are on a small scale , as there is no secretairy's salary , and the whole of the general disbursements only amount to £ 11 . 4 s , del . for the year . This week a grand archatectnral congress is going on in Oxford , and we hope some of our brethren in that city will put us in a position to give
some account of it next week . That grand Puseyite architectural college of propaganda—the Ecclesiological Society , held its meeting last week , Mr . Alexander Beresford Hope in the chair . They have now been for nineteen years at work , and are still vigorous . Their publication , the ^ cfeeo ?(^^ is pushed with zeal , and is maintained chiefly by the voluntary contributions of members . It has
branches in Ireland and New York , is in close alliance with the Cambridge Architectural Society , and has missionaries in ail the architectural societies throughout the country . The congress at Oxford , to which we have just alluded , is an enterprise in connection with the society , and the architectural museum is affiliated with it . The Ecclesiological Society is , indeed , only one part of the machinery by which the mediseyalists carry on their great enterprise for propagating their notions in art .
The committee refer to various works in architecture produced by their brethren , and to missals ana * ritual publications likewise under their auspices . They congratulate themselves too on having got a good slice of the historical publications of the Master of the Roils . Of iarchitectural works in hand , or completed by their architectural brethren , they have a very copious record . We find therein the Memorial Chuixh at Constantinople ; the Church of All Saints ; St . Matthew's , Auckland , New Zealand ; St . Mary , Hulme , Manchester ; G . G . Scott ' s church at Doncaster : the cathedral at Kilmore , and Montreal Cathedra ] .
Of restorations they enumerate St , Cross , near Winchester ; Llandaff Cathedral , Lichfield Cathedral , Sherborne Minster , Higham Ferrers , Devizes , Wantage ^ Twyning , and Limerick Cathedral . Glass painting , sculpture , and painting for churches receive notice . There is a triumphant allusion to Mr . Scott ' s Crimean monument to old Westminster heroes , which is to be set up in front of Westminster Abbey . The decoration of All Saints and of Ely Cathedral with paintings is commemorated . Metal work , church embroidery , and mediaeval organ-cases are enumerated as subjects of especial attention
While praise is thus freely awarded blame is not restrained ; and the committee speak with horror of the sham gothic fittings of the Chapel Royal at the Princess Royal ' s wedding . The committee are in great glee at the prospective opening of the naves of several cathedrals for public worship ; and the fitting up of the centre of St . Paul ' s was fully discussed by Professor Cockerell and others .
BuoTHEliHOon . —The race of mankind would perish , did they cease to aid each other . From the time that the mother binds the child ' s head , till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death damp from the brow of the dying * , wo cannot exist without mutual help , All , therefore , that need ai < J , have a light to ask it from tbeir fellow mortals : no one who holds the power of granting , can refuse it without guilt . — Sir W . Scott .
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Our Architegtxteal Chapter.
labour of the members is gratuitous , but a work so large cannot be undertaken without some literaiy remuneration : and in the last year the sum of £ 118 was paid in small fees for manuscript . We notice as one curious fact , that at Toronto , in Canada , the local honorary secretary has
disposed of copies to the amount of £ 3 G . 15 s . The expenses of the society are on a small scale , as there is no secretairy's salary , and the whole of the general disbursements only amount to £ 11 . 4 s , del . for the year . This week a grand archatectnral congress is going on in Oxford , and we hope some of our brethren in that city will put us in a position to give
some account of it next week . That grand Puseyite architectural college of propaganda—the Ecclesiological Society , held its meeting last week , Mr . Alexander Beresford Hope in the chair . They have now been for nineteen years at work , and are still vigorous . Their publication , the ^ cfeeo ?(^^ is pushed with zeal , and is maintained chiefly by the voluntary contributions of members . It has
branches in Ireland and New York , is in close alliance with the Cambridge Architectural Society , and has missionaries in ail the architectural societies throughout the country . The congress at Oxford , to which we have just alluded , is an enterprise in connection with the society , and the architectural museum is affiliated with it . The Ecclesiological Society is , indeed , only one part of the machinery by which the mediseyalists carry on their great enterprise for propagating their notions in art .
The committee refer to various works in architecture produced by their brethren , and to missals ana * ritual publications likewise under their auspices . They congratulate themselves too on having got a good slice of the historical publications of the Master of the Roils . Of iarchitectural works in hand , or completed by their architectural brethren , they have a very copious record . We find therein the Memorial Chuixh at Constantinople ; the Church of All Saints ; St . Matthew's , Auckland , New Zealand ; St . Mary , Hulme , Manchester ; G . G . Scott ' s church at Doncaster : the cathedral at Kilmore , and Montreal Cathedra ] .
Of restorations they enumerate St , Cross , near Winchester ; Llandaff Cathedral , Lichfield Cathedral , Sherborne Minster , Higham Ferrers , Devizes , Wantage ^ Twyning , and Limerick Cathedral . Glass painting , sculpture , and painting for churches receive notice . There is a triumphant allusion to Mr . Scott ' s Crimean monument to old Westminster heroes , which is to be set up in front of Westminster Abbey . The decoration of All Saints and of Ely Cathedral with paintings is commemorated . Metal work , church embroidery , and mediaeval organ-cases are enumerated as subjects of especial attention
While praise is thus freely awarded blame is not restrained ; and the committee speak with horror of the sham gothic fittings of the Chapel Royal at the Princess Royal ' s wedding . The committee are in great glee at the prospective opening of the naves of several cathedrals for public worship ; and the fitting up of the centre of St . Paul ' s was fully discussed by Professor Cockerell and others .
BuoTHEliHOon . —The race of mankind would perish , did they cease to aid each other . From the time that the mother binds the child ' s head , till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death damp from the brow of the dying * , wo cannot exist without mutual help , All , therefore , that need ai < J , have a light to ask it from tbeir fellow mortals : no one who holds the power of granting , can refuse it without guilt . — Sir W . Scott .