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To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry
of St. James's, Westminster.
Vestry Hall, Piccadilly,
June, 1875.
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
In again presenting a General Report or
Summary of the various works with which I have
had the honour to have been connected during the
past twelve months, but little explanation is necessary,
as for the most part they have not involved
anything actually new, but have consisted entirely
of maintaining those already in existence; and each
matter in rotation has been fully entered into
beforehand, either by the Vestry, or the Works
Committee, or generally by both, to an extent that
would render a detailed description both tedious
and superfluous. The whole may be summed up as
works of necessity and as well considered and
digested beforehand as the circumstances of each
case would permit.
It is needless to state that all matters on or
above the surface explain themselves: but from the
exceedingly ancient date of the greater part of the
buildings in the Parish the subterranean matters
are by no means simple. However new a building
may look, or actually be, the probabilities are that
none of the old foundations have been interfered