o the rooms above. On the first floor
are the rooms for meetings on matters of business connected with the law;
and above these are the Secretary's apartments.
The second part of the third division contains, on the ground floor, the
_Club Room_, which occupies all the ground floor: it will be divided by
columns and pilasters of scagliola, and decorated with a paneled ceiling
and appropriate ornaments. Its dimensions are fifty feet by twenty-seven,
and eighteen feet high. On the first floor are rooms of different
dimensions for dinner parties; and over these, rooms for the resident
officers. In the basement story of this part of the building are the
Kitchen and other domestic offices for the use of the Club.
The office for the deposit of deeds is in the basement story, next to
Chancery-lane.
In the remaining parts of the basement story of the building are fifty-two
strong rooms, with iron doors, for the deposit of deeds, which are well
ventilated and fire-proof; their average size is six feet and a half by
seven feet and a half, but some are larger, and others rather less, than
these dimensions. The whole are secured by one double iron door, with a
very strong lock and master-key.
[1] In our last we erroneously stated the whole of this building as
the work of Messrs. Lee, for L9,214.; only part of the carcase,
containing the Hall, Library, &c. being contracted for by those
builders for the above sum. Other contracts have since been made
for the completion of the building; of these, the principal is
with Messrs. Baker and Son (the builders of the King's library
and new galleries of the British Museum, &c.) who have executed
the beautiful finishings of the interior: these contracts amount
to upwards of L12,000.
Other contracts have been made with the above parties for the
erection of the Club House, and Dining Rooms, &c., situate in
Bell Yard, which is an addition subsequently made to the original
building.
[2] The best remains of Ionic buildings at Athens are the temples of
Erecthens and Minerva Pulias in the Acropolis, and the little
temple on the banks of the Ilissus; but in Asia Minor the examples
of this order are far more numerous; and some of the finest are to
be found amongst the magnificent ruins at Brauchidia, at Priene,
and at Teos, &c.
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