720 Critique Critique on the Building called Tavistock Chapel. [Aug.

windows, common parlour ditto with fquare labels, common one-pair-offtairs windows with pedimental heads of a finish entirely new. The doorways have the pointed head; and over them are pointed head-receffes. Here alfo are battlements in fize and make like thofe to the chapel. The fides or Aanks of the chapel have neither buttreffes, doors, windows, or battlements. The end of the chapel fhews three correfponding windows to thofe on the entrance front; but it is undecorated either by door-ways, cornices, battlements, or pinnacles. It is true, there is tuck up over the head of the centre window a large cross. This is not to be accounted for, as fuch a fign is rather of a fuperftitious tendency; yet, we can affure our readers, that in the interior there is no caufe vifible to make us believe the builder was any way fo inclined.

and Eaft interior terminations bore at thefe honfes we have common kitchenparticular hours of the day. The doors of entrance are on each fide of the centre of the defign. In our antient architecture the door of entrance was in the centre of the work; and to very large churches, or cathedrals, we generally find three door-ways, one on each fide the principal door-way. In the centre of the object before us are arched receffes and Small compartments projecting from the main wall; to the right and left of which are the doors for entrance, circomicribed with fplays (peculiar to windows only) of an enormous fize; and, although their heads have the equilateral proportion pointed form, yet there are over them horizontal labels, applicable only to the fquareheaded doors and windows of the Tudor æra. The large window in the centre, and thofe on each fide, have the equilateral pointed form; their openings are divided by mullions, whofe dimenfions are fo petit, that, to a thick fight," they must be nearly invifible (this rans with your modern eldarado fafh-frames), interfecting one another in the head of the arch, with out tracery or any antient finifh whatever. To the heads of thefe windows are fweeping labels, whofe mouldings are alfo fo enormous, that they fiand in firange contraft with the minute mullions as aforefaid. At the angles of this front are pilafters (in our antient architecture no fuch figures, buttreffes occupying thefe parts of an erection); they fupport on plinths and pedefials a fort of pinnacles notched at their angles, to fupply the place of crotchets. The enormous cornices to these pilaf ters, and the pediment, are purely modern; the battlements are of that kind we meet with in the most unadorned (or, to speak like your common topographical writers, rude") towers to the outworks of cafiles; and are of a fize fo finall, that probability is done away in concluding they could ever give fecurity to any one placed behind them. In the tympan of the pediment is a crofs loop-hole, another cafile characteristick, but without any moulding: it may come under the lift of the enormous parts as already fet down. On each fide of this front are houfes, detached door-ways, &c. appearing as if intended for props to fhore up the fide walls of the chapel. Two of the door-ways communicate with the alleries in the interior of the chapel. In

The interior of this chapel is divided into three ailes, the middle for pews, and the fide ones for galleries. At the South end is another gallery containing an organ, which is fo put up as to block out nearly the whole of the centre window. In front of this gallery, and directly before the organ, there is, by a whimfical contrivance, thruft out into view the pulpit. A gallery in this kind of way, in our antient architecture, was folely adapted for the minftrels, choirifters, &c. We all know in what part of churches pulpits fhould be placed, though, according to many inftances in modern clerical ufage, we fee them difpofed immediately confronting the altar. Under this pulpit ftand the reading-defks for the clergyman and his clerk. Thefe objects of decoration give the finish of confequence to this point of view. Turning to the communion-table, at the other extremity we behold nothing like antient embellishments: no traces of fuperftitious imitations, by way of altarfereen, parcelled out into compartments, niches, pinnacles, and all the long etcætera fo conducive to fix attention to a fpot, where the minds of the real pious fhould only dwell during divine fervice. No; a plain wall, a common fideboard-table and rails be fore it, make up the particulars of this facred fanctuary. Indeed, from the indifference evinced as to what point the altar fhould be placed, why need I regret the want of fome appropriate en

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dows, mouldings, &c. &c. are without thofe pleafing characters to revive in our recollection one reference to a "chafte imitation" of our antient architecture. Giving way to a fuppofition whereby fome praife might be allowed to the builder, that it was intended in this chapel's conftruction a fort of combination of antient architectural features was to have been difplayed, as though it were (like many of our national piles) the work of different periods; yet could it be poffible, or at least confiftent, that in the pri mary parts, or bafement ftory of this chapel, a ftyle fhould have been made ufe of which did not know existence until fix centuries after the tafie of work we fee raised over it?

Hence then with your "chafte imitations," and call it by whatever order it may best deserve. J. C—, Surveyor (by inclination) of the various Styles of the Antient Architecture of England.

Mr. URBAN,

July 17. YOU have gratified us with an ac

richments to fuch a fituation? for, from the darkness around, and the Buzaglo ftove, or the Grecian triangular facrificing-altar in its van, not for celeftial fire, but for good Newcastle fuel, all coft and pains in carving, gilding, &c. would have been entirely thrown away. It must now be plain to thofe who may take exceptions at the elevation of the crofs over the end window (already mentioned), that here is no danger of returning back to any religious errors, whatever there may be of paying too much attention to a good fire, or thewing too much anxiety who fhall have the fnuggeft pew. The three ailes are feparated by clustered columns without bafes (this circumstance refers us to Grecian architecture, not to our antient ftyles, as in the latter fpecies there is no example of this kind, otherwife than when their bafes are buried in the ground), and whofe capitals are fo enormously large, that our furprize becomes in a manner ftationary, not knowing which to wonder at moft, thefe pro- (St. MARGARET's Church in our next.) digious column-crownings, or the wiredrawn edges of the arches fpringing from them; these arches being without ribs or mouldings of any kind. The arches to the fide ailes interfect groinwife; but the overhead covering to the middle aile is fpun out into one fingle pointedarch cove, totally difcorrefpondent to the fide ailes, and without the fmalleft reference to Antiquity. In lieu of windows on the fides of the chapel we have large receffes. For the decorations of the fronts of the pulpit and deiks, galleries, pews, the pannelings of the doors, &c. here is given us modern fquare pannels, pointed-headed pannels, fome with mouldings, and fome without. Much of the work is of the common houfe fort, and fome of it leans towards our antient modes; but all the appearances which carry us back to fuch arts are cut out in a manner which does not convince us that a zealous attachment to "chafte imitation" was once thought of. Upon the whole, we, from our fketches of the exterior as well as the interior, now lying before us, are enabled to obferve, that the arches for the firft ftory are of a fweep not known before the 16th century, and the fweeps of thofe arches of the fecond ftory were firft in ufe fome time before or about the Norman æra. The other items of columns, compartments, recefies, doors, winGENT. MAG. August, 1802.

count of Great Shelford church, vol. LXIX. p. 185. Indulge me with inferting church notes, taken, 1797, in the adjoining church of Little Shelford.

The church confifts of a nave and

chancel of one pace, a Weft tower with five bells, and a South chapel on the South fide of the nave. The chancel had lately been repaired, and has a North aile, a kind of lean-to.

In the North wall, under a handfome arch (defcribed in Sepulchral Mouments of Great Britain, vol. I. p. 89; but the figure engraved at the end of the Century is Sir John Frevile, in Fersfield church, Norfolk), an alabafter figure in armour, in a round helmet, on an elegant double cushion, the face turned to the chancel, fleeves of drapery to the elbow, and close armour be low, tabard loofe in folds, belt and word, armour at knees, legs crofled, fpurs gone, lion at feet with long toes, tail broken off. At the rife of the finials of the arch, heads in mail and of priests. Above, within the arch, this infcription in Lombardic letters:

"Ici gift fire JEAAN DE FREV
ILE, ke fuft fegneour de ces
te vile vous ke par se passe
t par charite pur lalme priet."

The

VICARS.

Walter Knight, refigned 1393. Robert Cook, 1393: the king, the eftate of Rob. Frevile being in his hands. 1589. Thomas Hynde.

1797. John Swain, died Jan. 5, 1802.

Mr. Marshall curate.

Fordham, bishop of Ely, granted 40 days indulgence to all who contributed to the repair of the road between Great and Little Shelford, and to the fupport of John Lucas, hermit*.

Sir Richard Frevile, died Sept. 2, 13751. Mabel, died Feb. 5, 1380T2.

Mr. URBAN,

Sir Robert, died 1399

Margaret Thomas died 1400

13802.

Sir John Elen

Margaret William, died Jan. 19, 1460—Anne, died 14....

Robert, died April 18, 1522=Rose, died April 19, 1529.

July 31. CCUSTOMED as I have been, Afor a confiderable time, to read your Mifcellany (to fay nothing of my occafional correfpondence), as a fource of ufeful inftruction and literary amufement, I was not a little furprized at what I conceive to be a mifreprefentation in the Review of The Fall of Antichrift the Triumph of the Chriftian Church," in p. 530.

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For my own part, I never open your pages without expecting to meet with information, truth, and candour. In the inftance to which I now allude all these are violated.

You will fay I am hurt. It is true : and I apprehend there is fufficient caufe for it; for, without the fmalleft provocation, I am treated with literary injuftice, when it is infinuated by your Reviewer, as if I were in any poffible view of it unfriendly to "the Eftablished Proteftant Church of thefe kingdoms;" to which all, who have known me moft and beft, can bear me witness I have been vehemently attached by education, by profeffion, in judgment, and in principle, from my earlieft days to the prefent hour.

That I would induftriously avoid the character of a bigoted ecclefiaftick, and that I would be equally anxious to reprefent our National Establishment in all its moft amiable and conciliating points, I unrefervedly confefs; but when I am held up as a fecret Enemy to what I fo cordially admire, and fo highly eftimate, you will allow me, I hope, through the medium of your Monthly Treafure of Science and Amufement, to affert the right of perfonal juftification.

* Blomefield's MS Collections.

R. G.

I call, then, upon the many thoufunds who have been acquainted with my public miniftry for a long feries of years in the Metropolis of thefe kingdoms; I appeal to about thirty different publications, religious and political, which have iffued from the prefs with my undifguifed fignature; more particularly to no less than ten official fermons publifhed during the period I was chaplain to the chief magiftrate of the city; and I challenge any perfon, who has the honour to be a member of our Church, to be more uniformly devoted to its conftitution, doctrines, and Liturgy, than I have been: and, however infignificant the rank I hold in her communion, had every individual, introduced within her pale as a public teacher, done only as much to recommend her worship and her Articles of Faith, it may fairly be prefumed, that the number of Diffenters and Methodifts had been comparatively reduced to infignificance itfelf. I have at this moment Lectures on her Epifiles, Gofpels, and Collects, which, but for the enormous expence of paper and printing, might have been fubmitted to public infpection.

*One of the fermons has the following

title, "Scriptural Views of the National Establishment, confidered as the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth." The Dedication prefixed, to the right hon. the lord-mayor, theriffs, &c. &c. is peculiarly adapted to confound this unknown Critic. Had he attacked any perfon, who openly oppofed her doctrines and rejected her creeds while enjoying the luxuries of her preferments, he had done well. The prefent Vindicator can make it appear, by undoubted documents, that he has been a confiderable fufterer in a pecuniary sense for having fupported her conftitution and rights.

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