The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-07 00:00:00

OLD SALISBURY WORTHOUSS THREATENED

WITH DEMOLITION.

About a year ago the antiquarian world was shocked
at an advertisement I eued by the Town Council of
Salisbury, offering the ancient building, which had S it
some time served as the city werkhourie, for sale, with
the condition appended that the purchaser sh mid pull
the building down, and erect something new on its
site, setting it heck so an to allow of the street being
made wider, ant • new bridge being emoted. ''
Au hey
Nouse " or The OH Workhouse at Salisbury, was
erected during the fifteenth century by one of the
Audley family, but it is not quite certain which.
There is • bishop of the name buried in the cethodral,
and another of the family was executed in the reign of
Edward IV. After going through various changes
the structure at last became the City Workhouse, and
oontinued to be used until some three years back. Cho
buildings surround three aides of an irregular quad.
tangle. That which faces the street is the moat
an act, and evidently dates from the fit nienth cautery.
On this side is the chief en.ranos. beneath a fur-
centred arch, well moulded. The old oak doors still
exist, and are valuable examples of perpendicular
panelling. The windows in this portion of the build-
ing are equere.headed, with cinquefoil cusped
They girls light to what was formerly a very elegant
hall, but which has been injured by being divided into
two stories. The 074 el windows of the hall look'
t .wards the a 'art-yard' and form a pretty fe4parea, The
kitchen is at the end of tbe hall, with elea soler above
it. Th- letter is lights I by a large bewewindoW lookin_g
over tha garden n the dirclien of the river. It
contains on origin:4 perpendicinav mantel-piece, and
his a 'Nod Wager ceiling of a somewhat later date.
The windows contain much of their original,i+lalsing,
an a little stained glee.. The buildings f the
river are of later date thae those alrewte bed,
and were probably erected a,t 'wins times between
the reigns of Jnnoe 1, and Marl's 11. They are
remarkably pletnreimpas, awl the grouping of
gable., nbtxtheri, and -roofs, all crowned by the
atsumt spire ef the cathedral, makes up a very pretty
picture. In the angle formed by the hall building and
the projecting gable of the kitolien, is a little pout- '
house struottire, which conceal, from external view a
very remarkable feature. It is a squere-headed open-
ing, divided into two lights, the heads of which are
treated in a very different manner. The spandrels of
one light are pierced by trefoils, but those of the other
are filled in with b +Sy-carved foliage. The whole ia
very richly. moulded. What this ourioos feature
can have been it is at present diffloult to conjeattre—
Mseems too low down for a window, and VAO 'high for
• doorwey; it is not in the right eiion Icy a buttery-
hatch. When the brickw irk weth which it is at present
blocked no iirerripNad the difEculty may be solved.
We are glad te hear that there is some chance of this
, curious runi interacting 01l bail hug being preperved
keen the destruction which threatened it, as it hal
beet purchased by • member of the eatkedral chapter,
who is inxiorts to utilizeit withrnit pulling it down
and rebuilding 'We hive not yet heard whether the
Town Clouncil have alum °nerd their scheme of widen-
iiig the street and rebuilding the bridge, and until this
is settled the fate of the ol I building hangs in the
balance. It is, however, to he h Ted that the people
of ialtabory will do all in their power to preserve thin
interesting relic of antiquity. It would be quite worth
while to divert the new street a little, so as to amain,
plish so desirable an ace—Builder.

THE DROWNIHR iItHASON.
Dr. U. hiacCormac, of Belfast. write in Nature :
" The hath,ne—l might aim ist say tiro drown,ng—..wain
ie now al) Alt to been. and MOUT 111111• will unhappily be
It, A, the hurnan frame' bulk for bulk. le bithtor than
water, ill that is needful to save life is ts pe, mit she.
bedy to sink until it shall displace ea much valor as
equal. the body. weight, Tn.% paddle dentiT, sa the
lower animals de, with hands and feel, the Mewl being
held erect, wherever It Is dasired to go. This direction
being earned out is alisolut•ly all that Is needful under
pAtpery conditinea to p 0000000 life. These few direction,
ought to be stack un In ev-ry taibine Piece—every kyak.
Ing and 'kiting place—ln the three kingd,orue, Mit ~,,,
In see-y instance ought be made to t.irad water from the
11011111,4 t 14111, say in Shin°. elk' a bathe with blood wutu water, or, when convenient and suitable, In snore river.
pond, or in the open see. A leather belt with rine. and •
stout rod with line and boot. ere employed by Portuguese.)
mothers to instruct their childree. The mother. rod in
heed, steeds on th-, brink; the child I in the water.
In Nets g•itnnuing-achools the awns procedure is resorted
to. The busing,, cannot he begun too soon. I saw mere
infants austaining themselves Perfectly in the tepid waters
pi Africa. Trawling water Is far safer Irian swimming In
• broken we. liver/ adult, mau or woman, who hu not
pre/Weed it should begin. Once the conviction instill,,,
that the hogy Is lighter than watwr, the riak of drowning
Ii reduced to sm. The prancer involves no uncertainty,
no delay. Very different I rom strtini*nde it Can be
acquired at ones."

MAILEIAGUN OP TIIB DEAN OP DUILNAM TO MISS K. GLADSTONE.
At St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, Lmdon, W. nn
Thursday morning, the Dean of Durham, Dr. C. W. Lek.
was married to MI.. lE.thachie Gladstone, niece of the
Preaskr. The Arehbi-hop of Canterbury officiated,
assist. dby the Dean of fit. Paul's. Ain'lla ,he
present were the Prime Minister and Mn. W. E Glad.
amt. and B.r Thll3lllll Gladstone. The wedding breakfast
sr 14 bald .t Rertsert-hour, the rseidenoe of SR Thotuse
and Laly Glad.tone. The company consisted of tbe Dear
rei twee of the bride aad briciperootookod imm•fliatigy after
the breakfast the hsplif °Wills ceded for fi,on,.hoose,
ljasasgate, the coontkr reeidesee of the Archbishop of
pipterboary, whirs thq will spied the Iseasysoolk