handsome specimens of brickwork: the carriage-way has been Macadamised, and the foot-ways are well kept up the inns are numerous, and some of them handsome and convenient.

MARKET-HOUSE.

The former Market-house, which, from its want of repair, was pulled down in the year 1830, was a very stately and lofty building, three stories in height, with a large arched cupola on the apex, containing a bell, and crowned with a massive gilt vane. The east and west fronts, of the Roman Doric Order, were faced with stone, and had each four columns, with an entablature; the eastern one had its frieze decorated with metopes of ox-sculls, between the triglyphs. The present Market-house, designed by E. Blore, Esq., F.S.A., is an oblong building of the latest Gothic: the sides have each four cloister arches, filled with iron work: at the east end is a neat arched doorway, over which is a handsome oriel window; there are also two stone wyverns at the eaves of the roof, and the north east angle has a square tower, with a spiral leaded roof and vane. The west front is neat, but plainer; the interior is commodious, particularly the room above; and the edifice also includes the watch-house, which was formerly an octagonal building, with a lantern, in the small square behind the Market-house.

CHURCH.

Woburn Church, always a pleasing and interesting building, has very lately received some grand architectural improvements, and presents a very noble appearance; but, from historical accuracy, and ancient recollections and associations, we must, in the first instance, go back a few years to describe what it formerly was. The church has always consisted of

three aisles and a chancel, and the tower has stood on the north west; formerly joined to the north aisle by an apartment, supported by an arch, the residence of the parish clerk: this communication, however, was taken down before the commencement of the present century. The appearance of the old tower, though not lofty, was venerable; the buttresses were large, and the corners had very good pinnacles; on the roof was a large and curious octagonal wooden lantern, leaded, with a cross and vane. On the pilasters were the arms and cipher of Abbot Hobbs, which were also in the church, whence he is supposed to have rebuilt the whole; but this is not positively ascertained. In this tower were five bells, and a small one above, but two of them had become broken, and the tower had fallen into a dangerous state of decay. In the year 1830, this tower was rebuilt from the lower story in a very handsome style, from the designs of Mr. Blore, by his Grace the Duke of Bedford; and its general appearance, and the other external improvements of the church, are as follows:-The former rises to a considerable height, and has an octagonal stone lantern on its summit: the buttresses are of five stages, the upper one panelled and canopied; the belfry windows are deep and handsome, and under the eastern one is the clock face, in a handsome square tablet: at each angle is a lofty pinnacle, panelled and crocketed, with a finial, and tied to one of the piers of the lantern by a flying buttress. The lantern has eight arches, having their upper parts ornamented with tabernacle work, and a buttress and pinnacle between each from hence the roof rises spirally, with crockets, on the angles, to a handsome finial; above which is a small gilt vane, the height of which from the ground is 92 ft. Other small vanes are placed on the pinnacles, as was formerly the case at Henry VII's and King's College Chapels. The tower is now joined to the north aisle, by a vestry and gallery above. This building has two neat windows, of the same Tudor archi