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ward of the stalls , on the south side ; it is lofty and of most elaborate design . The reredos is as yet incomplete , but is intended to present , in its several parts , a rare union of richness and beauty . It will be a magnificent work in alabaster and marble , enriched with mosaic work , but subdued as much as possible
in height so as to interfere but very little with the full view of the celebrated stained glass which fills the windows of the eastern apse . A portion of the design , too , consisting of open arcading , helps much to the realisation of this end . Several kinds of marble will be introduced , including somo of a peculiarly beautiful red colour , found on the estates of the Duke of Devonshire , and kindly offered by him . This
will be used in conjunction with fluor spar , and the productions of the district . The organ is entirely new , presented by Josiah Spode , Esq ., who has also liberally assigned to the general fund whatever sum maybe realised by the disposal of the old organ . The now instrument is fixed in the east aisle of tbe north transept , tho organist sitting under the arch opening into the
choir aisle , immediately behind tho stalls . There are three whole rows of keys , and a largo independent pedal organ , the compass of the manuals being from C 0 to F in alt . There are in all no less than 2 , 507 pipes , and 60 stops . Tho
great organ , also the pedal organ , has the pneumatic action applied , whereby tho touch is rendered perfectly easy and pliable , and the working is by three pairs of bellows , with double feeders . In the above summary wo have endeavoured to include all the prominent features of the restoration of the choir , as already accomplished . Much yet remains to be done , but
future progress will not interrupt the daily services . Our description might , however , appear incomplete were we to omit mention of several new features in other parts of the cathedral . Near tbe north door into the nave , a costly font has lately been placed , the gift of the Hon . Mrs . Henry Howard , aided by the subscriptions of a few relatives . It is raised
on several circular steps of yellow Mansfield stone . Subject-sculpture is emploj'ed freely , especial ] } ' on the four principal faces of the bowl , which illustrate respectively the " Entry of Noah into the Ark , " the " Passage of the Red Sea , " "Our Lord ' s Baptism , " and " His Resurrection . " Between these , at the angles , are full-length figures of the Virgin Mary , St . Peter , St . Helen , and St . Chad . Alabaster , Caen stone , with Languedoc , dove , Galway green , and other marbles are used , and impart life and variety to the general effect .
A lew memorial brasses and tombs , displaying much architectural merit , have also been admitted within the sacred enclosure . For instance , one of the earliest of the former is close to the south transept door , in the wall arcade . It is to the memory of Lieut .-Colonel Petit , who was so distinguished in tho Indian battles of the Punjaub , Moodkee , Ferozeshah , Aliwnl , and Sobraon . Another brass , let into
a black marble slab slightly elevated above the nave floor , is to the memory of Thomas William , late Earl of Lichfield , whose initials are introduced into the border , the motto , " Nil Desperaudum , " with the family arms , and lions and seahorses at his feet as supporters , being also introduced in the design , which is one of the most effective that has , in modern times , been produced . The late earl is represented in the uniform of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Staffordshire , over which are thrown his Peer ' s robes . Considerable
richness is given to the otherwise plain surfaces by the insertion of small mosaic tiles , in chocolate , blue , and red , disposed in a chequered pattern . Tho south aisle of the choir , at the east end of which is the famous monument of the " Sleeping Children , " by Chantry , has received a memorial designed in a totally different stylo , and placed in the south wall arcade , near the It is in
transept . memory of tho late Archdeacon Hodson . It consists of a Gothic altar-tomb , very carefully detailed , and covered with a slab of serpentine marble , in which is let a floriated cross , in brass . In tho lower part of tho tomb are sculptured panels representing the Entombment and the Resurrection ; and in tho wall above and behind the slab are scul p tured tho Crucifixion and the Ascension . Nearly opposite to this tomb preparations are being made
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for the erection of another , designed in a similar feeling by the same architect , and in memory of the late archdeacon ' s son , the late Major Hodson , of " Hodson ' s horse , " who met with an untimely death in the assault at Lucknow . It will be of Caen stone , interspersed with Mansfield and black limestone , serpentine marble and alabaster , the latter being used for the sculptured fi and subjectswhich include
gures , David , St . Paul ,. Arthur , and St . Alban , types of the Christian warrior in all ages . The representation of the four military virtues , Justice , Fortitude , Temperance , and Mercy , and a central historical subject , the " Surrender of the King of Delhi to Major Hodson . " The cross and coped top to this tomb are entirely of serpentine marble . —Building News .
Gossip From Brittany.
GOSSIP FROM BRITTANY .
( From the Building News . ) I am not going to enter very minutely into the churches aud buildings that I pass , for I am but a traveller , here today and gone to-morrow . I do not profess to describe everything I see , nor yet exactly will my remarks come up to the idea generally meant by architectural jottings ; but as we
travel to learn , as well as to enjoy , and although travel is necessarily irregular aud uncertain , still it mostly leaves the traveller wiser than he was before—so let us hope that in giving you , my professional readers , the benefit of my humble passing remarks , partly relating to buildings abroad , and partly to any application desirable of anything I may observe to home use in England ; if I may not attain to the
accuracy of a hand-book , I yet may send across the seas ideas that may be of a little service at home . At present the great building or architectural change that has taken place around me is , that I have come out of a land of brick into a land of granite , but it was not in Brittany that my eyes first opened upon it , for Jersey is literally made either of granite , or stones very kindred to it ; and , in
passing , let me recommend a Jersey farm-house or country residence ; a thatched roof , the house built of a grey granite rubble , the openings bridged by a single-granite lintel , and the whole covered with a fruitful viue . These houses are long ; five or six or more windows in a row , a porch in the middle , two stories only , and a row of dormer windows deeply bedded m thatch . But to proceed to Brittany ; truly a granite town is St . Malo—the quays arc granite , the walls are granite , the brackets or imitation machicolations are granite , tbe gate
towers , some of them picturesque , are granite . The houses aro granite , chimneys are granite , the pavements are granite , and the sontry-boxos are granite . Of course , as usual , there are exceptions ; many an old wooden house , consisting , I may almost say , of windows alone , projects its consecutive stories , with their time-bent timbers , one after the other , across the street ; but these are now rare . At
first the effect of so much granite , undoubtedly handsome as it looks , was to me inexpressibly dull , but it had sundry points of relief that were most valuable to it ; the roofs are very high pitched , they are again relieved by dormers of different shapes , sizes , and decorations ; some of the houses are of rubble consisting of a mixture of granite and a warmer coloured stonewith lintels and dressings of granite .
, The most prominent feature upon entering the harbour of St . Malo arc the chimneys , owing to their number and their excessive height . Many of these are very singular , on account of their being either entirely without cornices ,-or left completely rough and jagged at the top . This would not be noticeable or thought more remarkable than the rest of tho building in a mountain cottage in Wales , but in a
row of comparatively modern houses , of great size and height , and with all the rest of the work carefully wrought and ornamented by string-courses carefully moulded , the effect is certainly curious . But the houses are certainly handsome and of good effect , although , except a bold simple cornice , and a few boldly moulded string-courses , they are as plain as can be . Cannot we use granite in at least our public buildings ?—for if in great masses the effect of colour is dull , yet one purpose of a large building is sure to be
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ward of the stalls , on the south side ; it is lofty and of most elaborate design . The reredos is as yet incomplete , but is intended to present , in its several parts , a rare union of richness and beauty . It will be a magnificent work in alabaster and marble , enriched with mosaic work , but subdued as much as possible
in height so as to interfere but very little with the full view of the celebrated stained glass which fills the windows of the eastern apse . A portion of the design , too , consisting of open arcading , helps much to the realisation of this end . Several kinds of marble will be introduced , including somo of a peculiarly beautiful red colour , found on the estates of the Duke of Devonshire , and kindly offered by him . This
will be used in conjunction with fluor spar , and the productions of the district . The organ is entirely new , presented by Josiah Spode , Esq ., who has also liberally assigned to the general fund whatever sum maybe realised by the disposal of the old organ . The now instrument is fixed in the east aisle of tbe north transept , tho organist sitting under the arch opening into the
choir aisle , immediately behind tho stalls . There are three whole rows of keys , and a largo independent pedal organ , the compass of the manuals being from C 0 to F in alt . There are in all no less than 2 , 507 pipes , and 60 stops . Tho
great organ , also the pedal organ , has the pneumatic action applied , whereby tho touch is rendered perfectly easy and pliable , and the working is by three pairs of bellows , with double feeders . In the above summary wo have endeavoured to include all the prominent features of the restoration of the choir , as already accomplished . Much yet remains to be done , but
future progress will not interrupt the daily services . Our description might , however , appear incomplete were we to omit mention of several new features in other parts of the cathedral . Near tbe north door into the nave , a costly font has lately been placed , the gift of the Hon . Mrs . Henry Howard , aided by the subscriptions of a few relatives . It is raised
on several circular steps of yellow Mansfield stone . Subject-sculpture is emploj'ed freely , especial ] } ' on the four principal faces of the bowl , which illustrate respectively the " Entry of Noah into the Ark , " the " Passage of the Red Sea , " "Our Lord ' s Baptism , " and " His Resurrection . " Between these , at the angles , are full-length figures of the Virgin Mary , St . Peter , St . Helen , and St . Chad . Alabaster , Caen stone , with Languedoc , dove , Galway green , and other marbles are used , and impart life and variety to the general effect .
A lew memorial brasses and tombs , displaying much architectural merit , have also been admitted within the sacred enclosure . For instance , one of the earliest of the former is close to the south transept door , in the wall arcade . It is to the memory of Lieut .-Colonel Petit , who was so distinguished in tho Indian battles of the Punjaub , Moodkee , Ferozeshah , Aliwnl , and Sobraon . Another brass , let into
a black marble slab slightly elevated above the nave floor , is to the memory of Thomas William , late Earl of Lichfield , whose initials are introduced into the border , the motto , " Nil Desperaudum , " with the family arms , and lions and seahorses at his feet as supporters , being also introduced in the design , which is one of the most effective that has , in modern times , been produced . The late earl is represented in the uniform of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Staffordshire , over which are thrown his Peer ' s robes . Considerable
richness is given to the otherwise plain surfaces by the insertion of small mosaic tiles , in chocolate , blue , and red , disposed in a chequered pattern . Tho south aisle of the choir , at the east end of which is the famous monument of the " Sleeping Children , " by Chantry , has received a memorial designed in a totally different stylo , and placed in the south wall arcade , near the It is in
transept . memory of tho late Archdeacon Hodson . It consists of a Gothic altar-tomb , very carefully detailed , and covered with a slab of serpentine marble , in which is let a floriated cross , in brass . In tho lower part of tho tomb are sculptured panels representing the Entombment and the Resurrection ; and in tho wall above and behind the slab are scul p tured tho Crucifixion and the Ascension . Nearly opposite to this tomb preparations are being made
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for the erection of another , designed in a similar feeling by the same architect , and in memory of the late archdeacon ' s son , the late Major Hodson , of " Hodson ' s horse , " who met with an untimely death in the assault at Lucknow . It will be of Caen stone , interspersed with Mansfield and black limestone , serpentine marble and alabaster , the latter being used for the sculptured fi and subjectswhich include
gures , David , St . Paul ,. Arthur , and St . Alban , types of the Christian warrior in all ages . The representation of the four military virtues , Justice , Fortitude , Temperance , and Mercy , and a central historical subject , the " Surrender of the King of Delhi to Major Hodson . " The cross and coped top to this tomb are entirely of serpentine marble . —Building News .
Gossip From Brittany.
GOSSIP FROM BRITTANY .
( From the Building News . ) I am not going to enter very minutely into the churches aud buildings that I pass , for I am but a traveller , here today and gone to-morrow . I do not profess to describe everything I see , nor yet exactly will my remarks come up to the idea generally meant by architectural jottings ; but as we
travel to learn , as well as to enjoy , and although travel is necessarily irregular aud uncertain , still it mostly leaves the traveller wiser than he was before—so let us hope that in giving you , my professional readers , the benefit of my humble passing remarks , partly relating to buildings abroad , and partly to any application desirable of anything I may observe to home use in England ; if I may not attain to the
accuracy of a hand-book , I yet may send across the seas ideas that may be of a little service at home . At present the great building or architectural change that has taken place around me is , that I have come out of a land of brick into a land of granite , but it was not in Brittany that my eyes first opened upon it , for Jersey is literally made either of granite , or stones very kindred to it ; and , in
passing , let me recommend a Jersey farm-house or country residence ; a thatched roof , the house built of a grey granite rubble , the openings bridged by a single-granite lintel , and the whole covered with a fruitful viue . These houses are long ; five or six or more windows in a row , a porch in the middle , two stories only , and a row of dormer windows deeply bedded m thatch . But to proceed to Brittany ; truly a granite town is St . Malo—the quays arc granite , the walls are granite , the brackets or imitation machicolations are granite , tbe gate
towers , some of them picturesque , are granite . The houses aro granite , chimneys are granite , the pavements are granite , and the sontry-boxos are granite . Of course , as usual , there are exceptions ; many an old wooden house , consisting , I may almost say , of windows alone , projects its consecutive stories , with their time-bent timbers , one after the other , across the street ; but these are now rare . At
first the effect of so much granite , undoubtedly handsome as it looks , was to me inexpressibly dull , but it had sundry points of relief that were most valuable to it ; the roofs are very high pitched , they are again relieved by dormers of different shapes , sizes , and decorations ; some of the houses are of rubble consisting of a mixture of granite and a warmer coloured stonewith lintels and dressings of granite .
, The most prominent feature upon entering the harbour of St . Malo arc the chimneys , owing to their number and their excessive height . Many of these are very singular , on account of their being either entirely without cornices ,-or left completely rough and jagged at the top . This would not be noticeable or thought more remarkable than the rest of tho building in a mountain cottage in Wales , but in a
row of comparatively modern houses , of great size and height , and with all the rest of the work carefully wrought and ornamented by string-courses carefully moulded , the effect is certainly curious . But the houses are certainly handsome and of good effect , although , except a bold simple cornice , and a few boldly moulded string-courses , they are as plain as can be . Cannot we use granite in at least our public buildings ?—for if in great masses the effect of colour is dull , yet one purpose of a large building is sure to be