feature to the main wall, and will present a most pleasing termination to the general elevation, and will be from nine to ten feet in depth.

The total breadth of the building is sixty feet, and the total length (at its present stage), exclusive of the Departure Gateway (which is fiftyseven feet), is 340 feet. The height from the Euston Road to the top of the ridge of the roof will be 120 feet, and the Clock Tower 240 feet.

The walls are entirely built of bricks from Nottingham and Loughborough; and all the stonework, which is not unduly exposed to weather, is of stone from the Ancaster Quarries, while that which is more exposed is of Red Mansfield and Dumfries stone. All constructional shafts are of beautifully polished red and grey granite, while Irish and Derbyshire marble are used largely for interior shafts. The roofs are to be covered with green Swithland slates from Leicestershire, the flat parts being covered with zinc.

To develop fully the present revival of Gothic architecture it is necessary that the works of the old mediæval builders abroad as well as at home should be studied, both patiently and lovingly, for only by such study can the art be really advanced; and although our prejudices in favour of our own national peculiarities of style and or

nament may rather increase than diminish, yet a thorough knowledge of the various Continental peculiarities is requisite to all who wish to understand the gradual development and growth of Pointed Medieval Architecture in Europe.

If a new style is ever to be developed it must be by the systematic adherence to correct principles of construction suitably ornamented, and not by the use, or rather abuse, of purely constructive features as ornament. No style of architecture that the world has yet seen was ever the product of one individual mind; but as we look back to the past we observe that each style was the slow growth of years, nay, in some cases of centuries.

Gothic architecture was, as we have already said, undeniably the growth of Northern Europe, entirely developed by the people inhabiting the countries where it attained its perfection, and was thus especially suited to them, and to their country and its requirements. If we assume the Pointed Arched Gothic to be our national style, and as some type must be employed for the working out of a new style, it is suggested by the very able writer in the 'Edinburgh Review,' already quoted, that such a type exists amongst us in the Domed Octagon of Ely Cathedral. The combination of the dome with Gothic forms might yet become for us and

our children the source of unimagined glory and magnificence. Many of our Chapter-houses present the same type, although the use of a central column in all except that at York, shows that the idea of the Dome had not entered into the minds of those who built them.

GLOSSARY.

ABACUS. The topmost member of a capital, like a level tablet, on which the architrave rests, or from which an arch springs. In the Greek Doric order the Abacus was formed like a simple square slab. In the Corinthian and Composite orders the sides are hollowed out or made concave, and the corners cut off, and in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, they were made circular or scolloped out in curves so as to be uniform with the cylindrical or clustered pillars.

ABBEY. The abode of a community of monks, governed by an abbot, who took precedence of a prior in ecclesiastical degree. The church attached to the abbey is called the abbey church. ABUTMENT. The side supports or pier from which an arch springs.

ACROPOLIS. A Greek word signifying the highest or most important part of a city, and generally the chief point of defence. The principal buildings of a city were usually in or near the Acropolis; for instance, the Parthenon and Erechtheum were in the Acropolis of Athens (fig. 24).

ACROTERIA. Level tables or pedestals placed on the apex and lower angles of a pediment, for the reception of statues or vases. ACUTE. Sharply pointed, as for example the lancet window and other arches, gables, canopies, pinnacles, and spires, of the Early English Pointed style.

ADYTUM. A private or secret chamber in a temple.

AISLE. The side divisions of a church or temple which are separated from the main building or nave by rows of columns, and in Gothic buildings are usually covered by a separate, or a lean-to roof of less height than the nave.

ALABASTER. A very beautiful white stone or variety of gypsum,