peated at each extremity of the winged orbs of the cornice of the fronts.

It has been said that the wings are connected with the central compartment by means of panels of iron-work. These stand upon a granite curb, which is a continuation of, and forms the connexion between, the plinths of the central piers and those of the wings; and the panels are capped by a bold moulded rail, which corresponds in form and size, and ranges with the torus under the coved caps of the attached pilasters before mentioned. The same capping runs through the gates also, and both panels and gates consist of stout cast-iron vertical bars, every alternate bar running through from the plinth to the capping, and the intermediate bar terminating with a lotus-flower head, above a middle rail. The height of these intermediate bars from the ground is five feet six inches, and the whole height of the work in this part is, that before stated of the gates, nine feet nine inches.

The irregular form of the ground, and the obliquity of the line of frontage to the high road, from which the the work stands back between thirty and forty feet, rendered it impossible to adopt any regular design that should ave a chaste and classic, if not a severe, character, to the site, without leaving something to fill up extraneously. As the purposes to which it was proposed to apply the lodges required more room than could be obtained within them, as parts of the architectural composition, (one of them being intended as a local office for the

establishment, and the other as a dwelling for the chapel clerk, or keeper of the cemetery,) subdued attachments in simple brickwork, harmonizing with the inclosing walls, have been made to fill up the irregular spaces left at the ends of the main work; and these serve to connect the architectural composition of the walls without hiatus, and without harshness, whilst they supply the additional accommodation required within.

The space left before the gates and lodges is inclosed with cast-iron posts, connected by serrated bars and bar gates, thus securing a sweep for carriages that are not to enter the grounds; and the ends are inclosed with a neat low railing, having plantations of evergreen shrubs and trees, to mask, in some degree, the attachments to the outer flanks of the lodges, and to bring the whole finished work together as in a frame.

The above-described work, though of no magnitude, is really massive; and being placed upon the alluvial deposits of the neighbouring brook, the substructions were required to be of considerable depth and extent. There is an average depth of five feet of concrete, and three feet of solid brickwork, under the granite plinth throughout, independently of the north lodge, which having a basement-story, is much deeper than the other parts required to be.

The masons' work of the piers and lodges was executed by Messrs. Malcott and Son, of Newgate Street; the smiths' and founders' work by Messrs. J. Hervey, and Co., of the