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a large Gothic window,fifteen feet highs and eight feet wide,
the frame of which is filled with plain tracery, end an
ornamental moulding round the archway, es ire also the
door-ways. 7'he ~sindowa of the wing buildings tyre ornamented with Gothic mouldings, embrazures, &c. The
chimney aLafta, which are very numerous, are built separate
firom each other, and are of verioua forms, square, cetegonal,
&c., and give effect to the building. The roofs are high and
pointed, but not too much so, and the whole hxs a pleasing,
rural, and domestic effect. The interior consists of the
chapel, which is also used ag a board room, and forms the
centre of the building, dividing the men and women's apartments. It ie aestlp fitted up. On one side of the chapel
is the clerk's ofEce, and on the otter the master and matron's
parlour; adjoining these are the store rooms, and the ra
meinder of the firont building consists of first and se~wnd
class day-rooms for the maxi and women, and school-moms
for the boys end girls. The centre building at the back
comprises a ]ergs kitchen, pantry, wash-honce~ bakehouse,
&c.; and the back wing buildings consist of the children's
dormitories, receiving and bath rooms for the men cad
women, refectory moms, snd other o8ices. Each department hvs a large exercising yard, snd at the back of the
whole ie a Brood garden for the use of the house. The upper
story consist of muster snd matroda bed-rooms, first and
second class men and women's dormitories, lying-in ward,
separate in5rma~y for the men and women. The whole of
the bed-rooms ere spacious, cheerful, and well ventilated.
It is calculated to hold 200 paupers. An excellent stream
of water, which Sows from tho hill above, is conveyed
through the building, constantly supplying s large cietern~
and then carried off by drains, thus furnishing an article
essential to health, comfort, and clesnlinese. The architect
was lldr. W.R. Coultart.
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Up the dingle uses Constitution Hill ie the reservoir,
from whence the town is chiefly supplied with water. The
reservoir and turncock's cottage ere completely welled in,
to preserve the water firom every thing that might contaminate it; and the reservoir itself is of solid meson-work,
cemented with Aberthaw lime: it contains about 186,000
gallons of water when full. In tune of rain, the surface
water is turned under the reservoir, to prevent it from
mixing with the clear or pure spring water. Main pipes
of casUiron are laid from the reservoir down the hill, and
along the Marine Terrace, and through the central streets;
from the main pipes service pipes branch off into all the
etreets~ and from these service pipes the inhabitants are
supplied with pipes laid on directly to each house. The
town is supplied three times a week, each supply occnpying about ten hours, and the amount or quantity of water
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TAE WATER WORgS.
The Commiesionere for the improvement of the town, and
the other authorities of the place, under the powers vested
in them by their local acG, having granted to Messrs. Steers,
of Stroud, the requisite permission, those gentlemen, in
Januarv~ 1838 proceeded to form a company with a
capital of £4000 divided into abates of £10, and immediately commenced the works, which were completed by
the ensuing autumn. The town is now supplied with lights
both public and private, not inferior to those of any town of
the same size in the kingdom; and the public lamp-poets
are after a handsome design. The gas-works are curried on
in a suburban part of the town; and the house and premises
are well and substantially built, and their external appearance not unpleasing, while the gasometer, and other apparatus, are on the most improved plan.
THE GAS WORKS.
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