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adjoining the above, also leased to Mr. Ell for the
same term, at £22 per annum.
Wilmington and Northampton Squares and St.
James Churchyard are vested in the Vestry as open
spaces, and the —estry also contributes to the
maintenance of St. John's burial ground in
Benjamin Street as an open space.
New Yestry Hall.—The Yestry have taken
steps for the erection of the new Yestry Hall on the
land acquired in Rosebery Avenue.
Certain Architects were invited to send in
designs for a building to cost £12,000; premiums
of 50, 30, and 20 guineas respectively being offered
for the three best, the premium of the successful
competitor merging in a commission of 5 per cent.
on the actual cost The President of the Institute
of British Architects was requested to appoint an
Assessor to advise upon the plans, and he nominated
Mr. Aston Webb, E.R.I.B.A.
The conditions of competition having been
settled, the invitations were issued, the designs to be
submitted by the 27th October. Eleven designs
were duly submitted, which were examined by the
Assessing Architect, who reported that the points
which he had to consider were light and air, the
arrangement of the offices, &c., the architecture,
the cost, and the compliance with the County
Council regulations for approaches, staircases, &c.,
and that, in his opinion, the designs numbered 6,
II, and 9, should be the three to receive the
premiums to be awarded in the order in which they
are stated. His advice was followed, with the
result that the successful Architect was Mr. Charles
Evans-Vaughan, of 25, Lowther Arcade ; Mr. A.
Saxon Snell, and Mr. Edmund J. Harrison being
second and third. Mr. H. H. Tasker, of 53, Penton
Street, was appointed Quantity Surveyor.