NEW PARSONAGE.

Monckton Combe, Somersetshire.-Mr. Giles has designed a new parsonage for this village. There is a certain massiveness of effect in this building, which we like. The chimneys are particularly well managed : but we think the windows too few and too small.

CHURCH RESTORATIONS.

S. George's Chapel, Windsor.-Signor Salviati informs us that he has just finished the mosaic decoration of the roof of the Wolsey TombHouse. The Queen is so pleased with its effect that she has ordered the walls to be decorated by the same process.

S. Ive, Lanivet, Cornwall.—Some curious distemper paintings have been brought to light in this church, which have given rise to a correspondence in the local papers, in which Mr. Borrow, the Rector, Mr. Sedding, and others have taken part. The chief subject is a Limbo, or Descent of our LORD into Hades.

S. Nicholas, Worcester.-This church, built in 1742, from the designs of T. White, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, is about to be enlarged and rearranged by Mr. W. J. Hopkins. The present circular apse will be moved further eastward; and thus a choir and chorus cantorum are secured. The alterations are judicious and in a right direction. The destruction of the old pulpit and reading desk, and the rearrangement of the seats in proper fashion are not inconsiderable improvements.

S. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.-This church is not to be re-opened till the end of December. Mr. Guinness, it appears, has ordered the exclusion from the church of a particular member of the Ecclesiological Society who is known to entertain doubts as to the thorough excellence (artistically) of the great works now nearly completed. Meanwhile the Freeman's Journal is in ecstasy at the success of the restorations, and disposes of ourselves and other critics in the following strain :

"Pretenders to archæological lore-sitting in solemn Pickwickian conclave and settling (ecclesiologically) the affairs of the nation-dilettanti, who hold it as a first principle of criticism that, justly or unjustly, fault must be found and errors discovered, whether they exist or not-these, in common with the high-minded personages, whose zeal in the cause of correct restoration was first manifested when the prospect of a five per cent commission on an outlay of some hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be awarded to somebody was rudely dissipated-these, we say, will doubtless have no difficulty in satisfying themselves that everything as it now is in S. Patrick's is the reverse, or nearly so, of what it should be. The conscientious and discriminating observer, however, ignorant though he be of the mere nomenclature and of the minute conventional exigences of the cathedral style, a shallow acquaintance

with which enables certain people to make a great display, will, we are convinced, see it as it really is, a noble and faithful restoration to its original beauty and durability of one of the most interesting ecclesiastical monuments in the kingdom."

Durham Cathedral.-The restoration of the Galilee or Western Chapel has been in progress for the last few months under the care of Mr. E. R. Robson; who, we are glad to learn, will finish the work, though he has removed to Liverpool. Mr. Robson is succeeded in his post of architect to the Dean and Chapter of Durham by Mr. C. Hodgson Fowler.

NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

To the Editor of the Ecclesiologist.

Nov. 5, 1864.

SIR,-In your report of the church of S. Jude, Gray's Inn Lane, (p. 274 of your last number,) you state that the east window is by Messrs. Clayton and Bell. Will you kindly correct this in your next, as the large rose window is by us, and the three lower lights by Mr. Gibbs.

Yours faithfully,

LAVERS AND Barraud.

Such of our readers as may remember the curious church of Flamborough, in Yorkshire, will be shocked to hear that in a recent "restoration" the fine roodscreen had all but perished. It was turned out of the church and devoted to destruction. But some spirited remonstrances from local archæologists, especially the Rev. G. Osborne Browne, of Hull, so far prevailed that the authorities have spared it. But they have banished it to the west end, and placed it as a kind of screen or front to a western gallery. What has the Archdeacon of the East Riding been about?

It has become fashionable among glass-painters to publish volumes of designs of their works, as imagined or as executed. Such an one has been issued by Mr. Lyon, of Berners Street, a name new to us: and Messrs. Heaton, Butler, and Bayne have put forth a more ambitious, but far more successful, book of the same kind. The latter, though too much of a pattern-card to quite suit our taste, is really excellently done. The introductory letterpress contains a history of the art, and some account of its technical processes, besides estimates and price-lists. The designs, which are numerous and of all kinds, are due, we imagine, to Mr. Bayne's able and facile pencil. We observe that the writer calculates that £100,000 annually are spent in England for painted windows. This volume is adorned with an admirably designed title-page, representing the processes of glass painting by medieval artists.

Mr. Ernst Jacobssohn, architect, of Stockholm, is now in London on a mission from the Swedish Government, to inquire into the revival of the Gothic style in England.

A richly embroidered frontal for the Radclyffe Infirmary Chapel at Oxford has been executed by Messrs. Frank Smith and Co., from the designs of Mr. A. W. Blomfield. We were much pleased with it. In particular the patterns of the vertical stoles seemed to us remarkably good. We were less satisfied with the comparative coarseness of the flowers on the superfrontal.

We have with genuine sorrow to announce the death, in his fiftysecond year, of our honorary member, Mr. Charles Kemp, of Sydney, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Originally one of the proprietors of the Sydney Morning Herald, the principal daily paper of that city, Mr. Kemp retired a few years since from business, and thenceforward took up his position as a leading layman of Sydney, respected, popular, and beloved. His churchmanship was orthodox and enlightened, as well as scholarly, and in Parliament he was a fearless advocate of the rights of the Church of England. His strong natural sense lead him to appreciate the advantage and innate fitness of solemn ritual appointments, and it was therefore not to be wondered at that he was a supporter both zealous and munificent of Sydney Cathedral.