If those who are anxious for proper chancel arrangements should be dissatisfied with a Quire marked off by screens, there is another mode of extending the Church, by which a constructional chancel and the fashionable apse may be obtained. I am, so far, however, from sympathising with this feeling, that in large town churches I distinctly prefer what may be termed the Basilican arrangement. I consider that a chancel distinguished by a proper number of steps and by screens behind the stalls, is far preferable, in a town church, to one formed in the construction of the building, involving as this does massive piers, obstructive to sight and sound. With a chancel constructed as the Trustees propose, the great majority of persons seated in the aisles will see little or nothing of the choir. I consider this a very serious defect. If the congregation is to sing with the choir, as we all desire, it is of the greatest importance that we should be able to see as well as hear. For the real uses of a modern church the interior cannot be too unobstructed, and it seems to me a retrograde movement to attempt to convert a church, which, but for the galleries, is singularly open and thoroughly congregational, into one in which at least one third of the people would not see nearly so well as they do at present. Should, however, the opposite view unfortunately prevail, and a “constructional chancel” and an “apsidal termination” be decided on, there is no difficulty at all in providing for them upon the principle of a westward extension. I should propose in this case simply to reverse the church, and to place the new chancel and apse at the west end. The tower would thus remain as it is, but I should advise that a central entrance should be formed through it, where the present vestry is. A second tower might be erected if funds allow, over the new chancel, with all the advantages of position upon which I have already dwelt in describing the former plan. Spacious vestries might be formed at the side of the new chancel, or if preferred, below it, for which the fall of the ground and the ascent to the chancel would give ample height. A very fine effect might be obtained by ascending to the chancel in the centre and descending on either side to the vestries below.