Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road. Tavistock Chapel, Broad Court, Drury Lane. Wheeler Chapel, Spital Square. Welbeck Chapel, Westmoreland Street. West Street Chapel, Seven Dials. Woburn Chapel, Tavistock Place, Russell Square. PROTESTANT DISSENTING CHAPELS. The number of religious edifices belonging to the Dissenters in the metropolis is about 180. There are 80 chapels, or places of worship for the Calvinists, among whom are included the Scots Presbyterians. The Baptists have 45 chapels; the Methodists, or followers of Whitfield and Wesley, 23; the Unitarians 7; the Arians 2; the Quakers 6; the Swedenborgians 4; the Huntingtonians 3; the Sandemonians, the Moravians, the New Lights, and the Freethinkers have one chapel each. The Wesleyan Methodists have a large chapel in the City Road, erected by the Rev. John Wesley, on the site of a cannon foundry. The Whitfieldite Methodists have a chapel of considerable size, called the Tabernacle, at a short distance from the preceding, and another in Tottenham Court Road. — Albion Chapel, Moorfields, belonging to the Scots Presbyterians, is an extensive edifice with a cupola and portico, erected from designs by Mr. Jay. - The Unitarian Chapel, in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, built in 1823, by Mr. Kennie, is distinguished by a fine Doric portico; and there is another recently-erected chapel of the same denomination in South Place, Moorfields. In Jewin Street, Aldersgate Street, is a small chapel, designed in a novel style by the late Edmund Aikin, architect, in the year 1808. This is appropriated to the Arians, and was under the ministry of the late Dr. A. Rees, the learned editor of the Cyclopædia, for many years. CATHOLIC CHAPELS. French, Little George Street, Portman Square. Bavarian, Warwick Street, Golden Square, built from the designs of Joseph Bonomi, Esq. Sardinian, Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. English.-Circus, Moorfields, built from the designs of John Newman, Esq. architect. There are other chapels in White Street, Moorfields; Virginia Street, Ratcliffe Highway; Denmark Court, Crown Street, Soho; Sutton Street, Soho; South Street, Mayfair; Clarendon Square, Sommers Town; East Lane, Bermondsey; Horseferry Road; and Prospect Row, London Road. FOREIGN PROTESTANT CHAPELS AND CHURCHES. There are six places of worship for the French: -1. Clement's Lane, Lombard Street. 2. Little Dean Street, Soho. 3. St. John's Street, Brick Lane. 4. St. Martin's Lane, Cannon Street. 5. Threadneedle Street. 6. Austin Friars. The last-mentioned is an edifice in the pointed style of architecture, erected about the middle of the 14th century. It is also used for the service of the Dutch Protestants, and there is a Dutch Chapel at St. James's Palace. — The German Chapels are-1. Austin Friars. 2. Brown's Lane, Spitalfields. 3. Little Aylie Street, Goodman's Fields. 4. Little Trinity Lane. 5. Ludgate Hill. 6. St. James's Palace. 7. Savoy Street, Strand.There is a Swedish Chapel in Princes Square, Ratcliffe Highway; a Danish Chapel, in Wellclose Square; a Swiss Chapel, in Moor Street, Seven Dials; and an Arminian Chapel, in Prince's Row, Spitalfields. CHAP. V. Public Buildings including the Principal Commercial Edifices; the Palaces, with their Parks; the Houses of Legislative Assembly; the Government Offices, &c. COMMERCIAL EDIFICES. The Be The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street. business of this great corporation was originally transacted at Grocers' Hall, in the Poultry. In the year 1732, the first stone of the present building was laid on the site of the house and garden of Sir John Houblon, the first governor, and it was completed in the following year, from the designs of Mr. George Sampson: it then comprised only what now forms the central façade of the south front, with the court-yard, the hall, and the bullion court. tween the years 1770 and 1786, wings to the east and west were added by Sir Robert Taylor, but the latter have been rebuilt in a more substantial manner during the last and present years, under the superintendency of John Soane, Esq., R. A., who has also designed a new and elegant centre, of the Corinthian order, which has been commenced in place of the old work, by Sampson. When that alteration is made, the whole exterior of this noble edifice, (which is completely insulated from all other buildings,) as well as the greatest part of the interior, will have been erected from the designs and under the immediate direction of Mr. Soane, who has been professionally engaged as the Bank architect for nearly forty years. The architectural features of the exterior of this structure are certainly in unison with the nature of the establishment; conveying ideas of opulence, strength, and security, such as ought to characterise a grand repository of national wealth. In most parts of the exterior, both the order and the forms have been copied from the Temple of Venus at Tivoli; and the monotonous insipidity which such an immense line of wall would otherwise have displayed, has been obviated by projecting entrances under lofty arches, |