man pavements," says the account above mentioned, "that have been discovered in Italy, England, and various parts of the Continent, were then described by the lecturer; and the fact of their being frequently found in our Abbey and Cathedral Churches was adduced, as a proof among other evidence of their being thus commonly used in this country up to the 14th century. From this Mr. G. took occasion to suppose that it was not improbable, during the custom of flooring public edifices and sacred temples with the tessellated pavement, it might have become the practice also of adorning, in the same manner, the dwellings of particular or distinguished individuals; which hypothesis would account in a satisfactory way for the number of the remains of these pavements continually being discovered in so many and such widely different parts of this country. Though the Romans undoubtedly introduced the art into England, yet it is not certain that they took it away with them,— that the British and Saxons did not perpetuate it here, or at least keep up the use of those pavements already constructed, as well as in succeeding times, derive the custom afresh, though in a limited degree, from its introduction into churches, &c. If so, the numerous floors of Mosaic work almost daily discovered, have not been so long in disuse as is generally imagined."

So far as I recollect, the accounts we have of the variety and number of these pavements found in England, almost universally refer the latest use made of them to the period during which the Romans occupied Britain, or at most but for a short time afterwards. If I am not mistaken, most of the descriptions of them inserted in the Archæologia, and furnished of course by members of the Antiquarian Society, entirely pass over the inquiry as to when these pavements were last in usage in this country or on the Continent, or that they were so at all subsequently to the time above specified, beyond the common notion of their being laid or used in public and sacred edifices.

F.A.S.

the conduct of the authorities of that parish, who have sold her image by auction with the stones and rubbish of their devoted Church. (See p. 363.)

I need scarcely remind any of your readers of the history of this statue, which was placed in its present situation upon the demolition of Lud Gate, which it once adorned; and surely it reflects no credit upon the parishioners, or the inhabitants of the Ward, that they should allow this valuable relic to be lost for ever to the metropolis, which, perhaps, for its size and celebrity, possesses fewer objects of antiquarian interest than any city in Eu

rope.

VIATOR.

Mr. URBAN, Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
Sept. 3.

FEELING confident that every

thing connected with Isaak Walton must be interesting, I have taken the liberty of sending you for insertion the copy of an Inscription from a tombstone erected to the memory of an old and faithful servant of that celebrated angler. The memory of David Hookham has been handed down amongst the villagers in the neighbourhood of tales are related of him with the usual Cotton Hall, and many marvellous embellishments. David died before his master, and the following is his Epitaph, with the initials I. W. at the bottom; it is presumed therefore to be the production of the ancient Angler. SPECTATOR.

Yours, &c. "Sacred to the memory of David Hook

ham, who died A.D. 1647, aged 63 years. Within this turfe, on which in life he trod, Rests David Hookham, waiting for his God. A peaceful, honest, faithful life he led; And blessed as he break his daily bread. Simple his manners, candid was his look, His mirrour was the bright and purling

brook;

And life's clear waters as they passed on,
Reminded him how soon he should be gone.
At last his rod and angle he laid by,
And humbly dyed. May all like David dye,
And serve their Lord and Master faithfully,
As David Hookham in this world served me.
"I. W."

Her Highness's effigy, which "the the sceptre in her right hand, and the orb likeness of a kingly crown has on," bearing on her left palm, was knocked down for sixteen pounds, ten shillings, and no pence. Where were the preux chevaliers of our days? Is there then no man in England to whom the mantle of Sir Walter Raleigh has descended?

in their turn surmounted by an enta. blature, above which is an attic. The attic pilasters are disposed in pairs over each column, and between them are the windows of the clerestory, which, though arched in their exterior lines, are internally lintelled, and bounded by architraves. The ceiling is horizontal, and made by duplicated flying cornices into divisions corresponding with the intercolumniations, and pannelled with deeply sunk caissons, each division containing three rows in depth, and seven in width; in each caisson is a flower. The ailes have

galleries resting on iron supports, sustained by the side walls and the piers. The fronts of the galleries are plastered, and are concaved in a quadrant, by which means they interfere in a very trifling degree with the bases of the colonnade. The side walls are finished with an architrave, and the ceilings are pannelled with flying cornices into divisions, equal in size with the intercolumniation; in each pannel is a flower. In the construction of the windows considerable ingenuity is displayed in the mode by which the sills and lintels of the windows are worked, to prevent them from interfering with the free admission of light.

At the eastern end of the centre division is the chancel, which is a recess of less breadth than the whole design. The uprights of the walls are finished with the entablature continued from the colonnade; and the recess is crowned with an arched ceiling, the soffit of which is pannelled. The altar is raised on a platform, and separated from the Church by a splendid bronze foliated railing. The end wall of the chancel consists of a stylobate composed of a plinth and dado, painted in imitation of Sienna marble, having a dove in an irradiation in the centre, between the decalogue, paternoster, and creed, on four pannels. The cornice resembles veined marble. Above this appears a blank window, round the arch of which is a series of pannels inclosing flowers; the absence of an appropriate painting deteriorates greatly from the beauty of the chancel. At the opposite extremity of the nave is a similar recess, in which is a gallery containing the organ; it is fronted by another gallery, extending to the depth of one intercolumniation. In the front is a clock inscribed "THE Gift or JOHN THOMAS MARTIN OF QUY

HALL, CAMBRIDGE, ESQ. 1829." At each end of the ailes are galleries for the charity children, which are placed over the lobby at one end, and the vestries at the other. The pulpit and reading-desk are alike in design; the former is only distinguished by a superior elevation. The form is octagonal, of satin wood, sustained on a stone pedestal of the same make, with a swelling cap composed of ogee and quarter round mouldings, being exactly. the same as are used in pointed architecture! There is no font in the Church.

The internal colonnades are formed of stone, except the capitals of the columns; and the whole building shows a higher finish, and more substantial workmanship than a great majority of the new Churches. The side walls are appropriately coloured to imitate masonry, far preferable to the tints of red or blue, so commonly applied to the interior walls of modern ecclesiastical buildings.

This edifice is upon the whole an excellent as well as a very pleasing specimen of the old school of church building; its arrangement is consistent with established rules; it has no fea. tures borrowed from either the theatre or the meeting-house, and in the division of nave and ailes, the architect has shown a better taste than many of his brethren who have deemed an assembly room a fit model to copy.

The foundations were completed, and laid for a long time without a brick of the superstructure being added, but on the 21st Feb. 1827, the first stone was laid, and on the 7th May, 1829, the Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester.

The contract was 21,412/. 19s. 5d. the Church being built by the Commissioners, with a liberal grant on the part of the parishioners, who to their honour came forward with energy and unanimity, thereby affording a pleas ing contrast to the factious proceedings which disgraced a neighbouring parish on a like occasion. The building is calculated to hold 2000 persons, of whom 1200 are accommodated in free E. I. C.

seats.