Star.
London, England, 1827-09-03 00:00:00

RI:t&L ARCHITECTURE.

An ingenious a ork on Rural Architecture has just
Emit pub'ished by Mr. T. F. Huwr, in which he has
introduced several simple and elegant plans for lodges,
gardeners houses, and other domestic buildings. The
introduction to the work contains a short history of
English Rural Architecture, from which it appears
that the custom of embellishing grounds with orna-
mental structures was not known in England till the
beginning of the 17th century.. Inigo Jones is said
to have erected the first garden building in England,
at Beckett, near Farringdon. It excited so much admi-
ration, that the aid of the architect soon became neces-
sary to most noblemen. Sir John Vanbrugh and
Kent were the next architects of name who dis-
played either skill or taste in ornamental gar-
dening. They were followed by Ripley, Holland,
Taylor, and others, whose ablest efforts all sunk
into • insignificance when compared with tbose of.
Sir W. Chambers, whose dissertations on architecture
and oriental gardening must ever be considered as
works of no ordinary merit. All these artists followed
too closely in their works Grecian and Italian models,
and it was not till the time of the elder Wyatt that just-
lice was done to the neglected beauties of our own
architecture, which, as Mr. Hour observes, was too
long despised and stigmatised as Gothic. Mr. HUNT,
however, complains, that tasteful as Many of the
artists whose names we have just mentioned were
in their rural buildings, they all disregarded a very
important feature in them—namely, the roof. He
points out with considerable force the objection to
wing either thatch or English tiles, or blue slate, in
ornamental garden buildings, and recommends in
their stead the adoption of the Italian tile, which
is most secure as a covering, and most beautiful
in form, being nearly semicylindrical, and admitting
any colour that the scenery or style of building may
require. In the design of the campanile these tiles are
wed. as also in the design of the dairy, which appears
well constructed to exclude the rays of the sun, and to
allow a free circulation of air. Where all the plates are
so well executed, it becomes a difficult matter to select
any single plate as the subject of eulogy; but there is a
small villa designei in p. 22, to which, if it were placed,
as Dryden sings— _ _ _

near a crystal flood,
A winding valley, and a Wry wood,
we should not care how soon we retired to court the
pleasant oblivion of a tranquil life. On the whole, we
think that the volume is well worthy the attention of
the lovers of ornamental gardening, and hope that it
will meet with the same success and approbation which
have attended the former publications of this accom-
plished architect.

OXFORD, Sas?. 1.
•
On removing the pews in St. Mary's Church, the
following epitaph was found on a black stone, in the
south side of the middle aisle :
John Nixon of this Citty Alderman.
Ended that race he 73 yearn ran
In April CS. No merit he
Owned but Mists, yet by Its fruit* the fink
Is to be knowae. 1 wire 20 free schools boys,
Immortallise his name. And with less noyse
Farr greater bounties were disperse oinknowne
Except to reapers where his seed was sowne.
May many more this worthy patterns eye
A good fair eopie for posterity.
The Mewing Is the :ascription ea Qtptala:Creed's monument,,
lately erected at Head:arm, Dear this city:
To the Memory el
JOSEPH GREED.

Late Captain of the Send Regiment of Infantry
And Adjutant of the
Oxford Loyal Ifo'omega
Rom the WU 1505
To the Year ims
When it was disbanded
He died May 44th 1551,
Aged 59 year►.
Thh monument was erected by the Members of the 0.1.. V. u
a tribute of tepid for the meritorious service of their late Adjutant.