1868.] Descriptions. 309 The Attic Story contains about an equal amount of accommodation with the second, and has the partitions ex- tended up to the roof. Light for this story is supplied chiefly from the gables, but, also, from two Dormer Windows situated in the rear. The roof is covered with alternate layers of octagonal and square-angled slate. The woodwork of the windows and the exterior will be of a dark color, in- cluding the Sash and Front Door. The cornices, porches and balconies will be of a two-shades lighter tint than the walls. The Glass used in the First Story, Front and Bay- Window should be crys- tal sheet, single thickness, and all the remainder of the best American. All the glass should be well bedded, bradded, and back-puttied. The eaves ought to have raised gut- ters, and a sufficient number of con- ductors to carry the water quickly to the ground. The Balconies should all be laid with tin, well soldered and painted beneath, as well as on the top. All the valleys to be also laid with tin, not less than 14 inches wide ; and all gutter and val- ley tin should have the seams soldered on both sides. The cost of erecting a Villa of this description — based on the existing prices of labor and materials — in accordance with the design we have given, and the foregoing brief description — if in the vicinity of Philadelphia — would be about $9,000. DESIGN FOE, A GOTHIC CHURCH. Style: Perpendicular Mixed. ECCLESIASTICAL Architecture has been, in all ages and in every land, the most important branch of the art, the one on which architectural genius and skill have always been mainly expended. As regards the styles that have been used for edifices of this nature, the ear- liest, of which we have any mention, can hardly be said to possess any particular style, being generally composed of the ruins of ancient heathen temples and other structures, promiscuously worked up together. The Bjzantine era may be looked upon as the earliest in which style was originated and introduced into such buildings, though this was mostly con- fined to Asia Minor, until about the 6th century. It was near this time, that the Lom- bards settled in Italy ; and considerable changes, principally in the details, were effected by them in the mode then exist- ing ; which may be and is called, the "Lombardic." This style flourished in Northern Italy up to the 12th century, or the commencement of the 13th, form- ing an intermediate link between the debased Roman and the Gothic Style. By gradual, but marked changes, car- ried through four or five generations — a grand transition whose points can readily be traced — was at last reached the " most perfect form of Ecclesiastical " architecture, pre-eminently termed the " Christian Style ; we need scarcely "say, we allude to the Gothic, or " Pointed, which, for its solemn gran- " deur, as well as for its perfect con- "struction, is of all, the most appro- priate for a Christian Temple." We will not, here, attempt to enter into any dissertation on the Gothic Style, beyond what more particularly relates to the yubject of our present illustration, which, as will be seen, is a Church, partaking of the characteristics
