West Heath, -Preston, Esq., is a thatched cottage, entered through a conservatory, and with an exterior form that an architect with an artistical eye might turn to fine account. Showy beds of flowers abound on the lawn, but they are much too large, and for that reason make the place appear smaller than it really is; so much depends on proportioning all the details of a place to the whole. In returning, we observed two frightful chapels; the Hanover Chapel at Peckham, in the form of a pentagon, with small mean windows without facings, and red brick walls without cornices or any decoration whatever; and another chapel nearer Camberwell, of larger size, with similar walls, with three or four stories of naked windows like those of a third-rate dwelling-house. Chapels, in general, throughout the country, are at present a disgrace to it in an architectural point of view; but it is to be hoped that the spread of knowledge and taste will raise them to a par with other religious buildings. Mr. De Crespigny's house at Peckham is a fine old brick building.
