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Our Architectural Chaptee
petrating something national ; and there is nothing national in Mih ^ rva and scraps from the Latin grammar . The architect of the Leied & Tc ^ wn Hall is Mr . Gtf thbertBroderiefe . As , in consequence of the T < 5 wn Hall being inaug ^ MMd by the chief of the state , th ^ Masons had net the opportunity of dedicating
thd building with thS accMtomed ceremonial , we think one of the earliest uses of the hall should fefe its devotion to a Ma & oi $ 6 delgbratioh . The Grand Lodge of Wist Yorkshire hai h £ re the o |)|) rj * tunity' 6 f cfttitributing to the welfare of the toWii , and doing ^ on ^ hing ttiiiftll to the Craft .
The several Lodges in Leeds and West Yorkshire Wottld assfernfele in the courts , in one of which the Grand Lodge would be holden ; thence they would go in procession to the great hall , wherein the consecration ceremony would be performed ^ th e oi ^ gah beilig under th £ direction of the Brethren by whom if ^ construction has been
supervised . Were this matter properly hiati ^ ged , the sight would be interesting Md iinpressivey and the receipts for admission to the hall should be devoted to form a fond for Masonic province of West Yorkshire . It is quite within conrpass to realize a thou ^ nd pounds on this occasion . We earnestly press this subject oh the consideration of the Jealous Brethren of West Yorkshire .
The government offices competition is taking a practical shape . If we may accept the utterance of the Saturday Revieio as authentic , Mr . G . G . Scott now represents the mediaeval party ; audit is proposed to have a new limited competition between Messrs . Barclay and Barry , Mr . G . G . Scott and Mr . Garling , and a dead set to be made against Mr . Pennethorne . The Review , it is supposed , represents the policy of Mr . Beresford Hope , the chairman of the parliamentary committee on the government offices last session . The Building News announces that the contract for the alterations of the Architectural Union building is at length let . Messrs . Hack and Son have taken it ,-and before the year is over much of the
building will be occupied . Tlie architects will then have their oWn hall , and there will be held th £ meetings of the Royal Institute of British Architects , of the Architectural Society , tjie Architectural Publication Society , the Architects Benevolent Society , the Architectural Photographic Society , and the Architectural Exhibition . It is by no means creditable to the architects that this undertaking has
lingered and the shares , which are in the nature of club subscriptions , have been slowly taken up . The Builder has pronounced for South Kensington as the site of the Great Exhibition , and attempted to put down Battersea Park . The Building Neios advocates B & ttersea , ancl simultaneously the organ of head quarters , the Journal of the Society of Arts , comes out with a feeler in favour of Battersea likewise , so that it looks as if South Kensington were not the favourite . It is not often we have the opportunity of recording the Masonic celebration of a private buiding , but we are glad to point out to pro-2 k 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Our Architectural Chaptee
petrating something national ; and there is nothing national in Mih ^ rva and scraps from the Latin grammar . The architect of the Leied & Tc ^ wn Hall is Mr . Gtf thbertBroderiefe . As , in consequence of the T < 5 wn Hall being inaug ^ MMd by the chief of the state , th ^ Masons had net the opportunity of dedicating
thd building with thS accMtomed ceremonial , we think one of the earliest uses of the hall should fefe its devotion to a Ma & oi $ 6 delgbratioh . The Grand Lodge of Wist Yorkshire hai h £ re the o |)|) rj * tunity' 6 f cfttitributing to the welfare of the toWii , and doing ^ on ^ hing ttiiiftll to the Craft .
The several Lodges in Leeds and West Yorkshire Wottld assfernfele in the courts , in one of which the Grand Lodge would be holden ; thence they would go in procession to the great hall , wherein the consecration ceremony would be performed ^ th e oi ^ gah beilig under th £ direction of the Brethren by whom if ^ construction has been
supervised . Were this matter properly hiati ^ ged , the sight would be interesting Md iinpressivey and the receipts for admission to the hall should be devoted to form a fond for Masonic province of West Yorkshire . It is quite within conrpass to realize a thou ^ nd pounds on this occasion . We earnestly press this subject oh the consideration of the Jealous Brethren of West Yorkshire .
The government offices competition is taking a practical shape . If we may accept the utterance of the Saturday Revieio as authentic , Mr . G . G . Scott now represents the mediaeval party ; audit is proposed to have a new limited competition between Messrs . Barclay and Barry , Mr . G . G . Scott and Mr . Garling , and a dead set to be made against Mr . Pennethorne . The Review , it is supposed , represents the policy of Mr . Beresford Hope , the chairman of the parliamentary committee on the government offices last session . The Building News announces that the contract for the alterations of the Architectural Union building is at length let . Messrs . Hack and Son have taken it ,-and before the year is over much of the
building will be occupied . Tlie architects will then have their oWn hall , and there will be held th £ meetings of the Royal Institute of British Architects , of the Architectural Society , tjie Architectural Publication Society , the Architects Benevolent Society , the Architectural Photographic Society , and the Architectural Exhibition . It is by no means creditable to the architects that this undertaking has
lingered and the shares , which are in the nature of club subscriptions , have been slowly taken up . The Builder has pronounced for South Kensington as the site of the Great Exhibition , and attempted to put down Battersea Park . The Building Neios advocates B & ttersea , ancl simultaneously the organ of head quarters , the Journal of the Society of Arts , comes out with a feeler in favour of Battersea likewise , so that it looks as if South Kensington were not the favourite . It is not often we have the opportunity of recording the Masonic celebration of a private buiding , but we are glad to point out to pro-2 k 2