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CONTENTS.-No. I.

PRELIMINARY ADDRESS

Bristol Architectural Society

Report of the 8th General Meeting of the Bristol Architectural Society

On Mural Tablets ..

A Chapter on Church Building

NOTICES OF OLD BUILDINGS

REVIEWS

CHURCH NEWS

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Arcade to the Clerestory of St. James's Church, Bristol
Arms of Robert, Earl of Gloucester

Seal of the Hospital of St. Catharine, Bristol ..

Circular Window on the western side of same Chapel

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Tenth General Meeting of the Bristol Architectural Society

The Ecclesiologist and the Archæological Magazine ..

THE

BRISTOL AND WEST OF ENGLAND

Archaeological Magazine;

IN CONNEXION WITH THE

BRISTOL AND WEST OF ENGLAND ARCHITECTURAL AND HERALDIC SOCIETY.

No. II.

AUGUST 1st., 1843.

VOL I.

TO THE

READER.

THE promise held out in the former number of this Magazine, that the second should be published in the following month, was not fulfilled. The Editor was prevented from its performance by the severest domestic affliction. It is hoped that the mention of this will serve to excuse, at the same time, any appearance of haste or of negligence in the preparation of the present part.

In the Preliminary Address at the commencement of the work, it was proposed as a matter to be determined at a future time, whether the Magazine should eventually become a quarterly or a monthly periodical. The same cause that has led to the delay in the publication of this number, induces the Editor, as it will occasion a change in his engagements that will allow less leisure for the superintendence of the work, to adopt the former plan; and he will, by so doing, act in accordance with the recommendation of several persons, who, taking an interest in the success of the Magazine, justly appreciate the difficulties attendant upon the frequent issue of such a publication in a provincial district.

This alteration from the plan first contemplated, as to the intervals to be allowed between the publication of the successive numbers, will necessarily cause some change as to the materials that will be considered proper for the work: no accounts of existing antiquities, for instance, will be admitted, except of such as are within the bounds intimated by the title of the Magazine; and the correspondence and miscellaneous papers will be so selected and condensed as not to interfere with the primary object of the publication, the illustration of ancient buildings and works of art existing within those limits.

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REPORT OF THE NINTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE BRISTOL ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.

THE Ninth General Meeting of this Society took place on Friday, the 17th of May, at seven o'clock P.M., in a room hired for the purpose, at 25, Trinity Street; Mr. Garrard, the Chamberlain, in the chair.

The Chairman having announced the names of several new members who had been elected by the Committee since the last general meeting, the secretary proceeded to read the report of the Committee, which was as follows:

"The Committee of the Bristol Architectural Society have great pleasure in calling the attention of the members to the continued increase of its numbers. They cannot but consider it as subject of congratulation, that no general meeting has taken place for the last six months without their having it in their power to present a list of newly admitted members. They have now also to announce that they have succeeded in securing a room in Broad Street, for the reception of the books, models, and other property of the Society. They are therefore in a condition to commence the formation of an Architectural Library, as well as a Museum of models of Ecclesiastical Architecture; and they earnestly entreat from those who have it in their power to furnish them with materials for such a collection, to render all the assistance possible to such a plan, it being one contemplated in the fundamental laws of the Society, and calculated to be of much service in promoting the objects for which we are associated.

Since the Society last met, the Committee have concurred with the Cambridge Camden Society, in addressing Her Majesty's Commissioners for Building additional Churches and Chapels, on the subject of certain alterations in their rules, which seemed desirable. A Memorial has been presented on behalf of the Bristol Society, and it is with much satisfaction that the Committee have since heard that Her Majesty's Commissioners are now taking into consideration the points brought forward in this address.

The Committee have now to draw the attention of the Society to a correspondence between the Secretary of the Exeter Society and our own, on the subject of the title under which we have been enrolled. Application has been made on the part of the Exeter Society for the withdrawal of the words "West of England," from that title, on the ground that they imply an encroachment on the sphere of the Exeter Society, of which the Bishop of Exeter is patron, and which was believed to have been instituted at an earlier period than our own.

It appeared, however, on enquiry, that our Society was established a few months before the Exeter Society; but the Committee cannot doubt that the term "West of England," was intended rather to comprise the dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol, and Bath and Wells, than that of Exeter; whilst they are sensible of the importance, especially in Ecclesiastical Societies, of avoiding every thing which may wear the least appearance of interference or encroachment with the province of sister associations or their patrons. With the expression of these sentiments, they beg to submit the application of the Exeter Society to the consideration of the present meeting, as mooting a question of considerable importance, and which cannot finally be adjusted without communication with our own bishop.

The first number of the "West of England Archæological Magazine" has appeared, and the Committee trust that this undertaking will be supported by the members of the Society at large.