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266 TALL1SJS ILLUSTRATED LONDON J
residence contains a living-room, a scullery, and three
bed-chambers, to each of which there is distinct access,
and a window, and they are provided with the most
improved machinery for securing a constant supply of
pure air and water. Hollow bricks are exclusively used
for the walls and partitions; and neither in the floors
nor roof is any timber used, for they are formed with flat
arches of hollow bricks, rising from eight to nine inches,
set in cement, and tied in by wrought-iron works, con-
nected with cast-iron springers, which rest on the outward
walls, and bind the whole structure together ■ whereby
the edifice is rendered fireproof, and much less subject to
decay than those of ordinary construction. The floors,
where not of Portland cement, are laid with Staffordshire
tiles, except on the right-hand room, which is of lava.
The coping is of Portland cement. The external string-
courses, and internal cornices, are of patent bonded
brick, set in Portland stone, with the splayed side out-
wards.
Several new churches which are not named in the text,
are sufficiently described by the illustrations themselves.
CHAPTER XXII.
DISTINGUISHED LOBD MAYORS OP LONDON.
In a work devoted to record all that is worthy of notice
in the metropolis, a brief notice of the most eminent
functionaries who have held the civic chair, will not be
without attraction, for those who take an interest in the
chronicles of London's progress.
In 1239, William Joiner, mayor, built the choir of the
Grey-friars church in London, and became a lay brother of
that house. Henry Wallis, in!282, built the Tun, in Corn-
residence contains a living-room, a scullery, and three
bed-chambers, to each of which there is distinct access,
and a window, and they are provided with the most
improved machinery for securing a constant supply of
pure air and water. Hollow bricks are exclusively used
for the walls and partitions; and neither in the floors
nor roof is any timber used, for they are formed with flat
arches of hollow bricks, rising from eight to nine inches,
set in cement, and tied in by wrought-iron works, con-
nected with cast-iron springers, which rest on the outward
walls, and bind the whole structure together ■ whereby
the edifice is rendered fireproof, and much less subject to
decay than those of ordinary construction. The floors,
where not of Portland cement, are laid with Staffordshire
tiles, except on the right-hand room, which is of lava.
The coping is of Portland cement. The external string-
courses, and internal cornices, are of patent bonded
brick, set in Portland stone, with the splayed side out-
wards.
Several new churches which are not named in the text,
are sufficiently described by the illustrations themselves.
CHAPTER XXII.
DISTINGUISHED LOBD MAYORS OP LONDON.
In a work devoted to record all that is worthy of notice
in the metropolis, a brief notice of the most eminent
functionaries who have held the civic chair, will not be
without attraction, for those who take an interest in the
chronicles of London's progress.
In 1239, William Joiner, mayor, built the choir of the
Grey-friars church in London, and became a lay brother of
that house. Henry Wallis, in!282, built the Tun, in Corn-