The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

This structure is to be be built on the southwest corner
of the Prince's-park, (about 12 yards back from Ullet-
lane), and will form a high ornament to our southern
suburbs, near Aighurth. The above typographical dia-
gram represents the ground floor, and would have been
more perfect had spaces been left between the small dotted
squares inside (the buttresses) to represent the windows.
We describe the building from these drawings as being
built.

The style of architecture is the perpendicular English,
or Gothic, of the 15th century; with, at the west end, a
handsome steeplz, rising to the height of 150 feet. The
entire length of the building is 145 feet ; the width is 51
feet in the body, and in the transepts (which are 40 feet
wide) 124 feet.
The tower is of three stories, surmounted by a spire.
In the west end of the tower there is an ornamental oak
door, forming an entrance to the gallery at that end, with
a crocketted canopy. Over this door is a window, light-
ing the staircase; and one on each side, enriched by tra-
cery, lighting the entrances. In the centre, above, there
is a cluck, with also a crocketted canopy, and a pinnacle
on each side.

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The sides are fl inked by buttresses, between which are
five two-light windows at each side. There are three
windows on the west side of each transept, and two on
the east side. From the outer part of each transept is an
entrance door to a vestibule leading to the lower seats,
and also to the gallery above. Over each door there is a
large three-light window, and above the last, in the gahel,
a wheel, or circular opening, with a quatrefoil double
cusped shield in the centre. These doors correspond in
style with the main entrance door on the west. The an-
gles of the transepts, and the angles of the chancel are
of octagonal turrets, surmounted by buttresses, and with
a pinnacle on each as a finial.

At the east end there is a five-light window, blank below
to form the altar screen, but so contrived that, with the
open part and tracery above, the architectural keeping of
the whole is preserved. Round the whole building there
is an embrazured battlement, which is in accordance with
the style, and has a pleasing effect.
The interior will be fitted up in a manner to combine
comfort and elegance. The pews will have sloping backs,
and (as indicated in our rough diagram) will be so divided
as to accommodate fours, fives, sixes, and sevens. The
ground floor, from the transept westward, will rise in a
gentle slope, which will afford the congregation in that
part full advantage of not only hearing but seeing their
minister with ease and convenience. This is a decided
improvement in interior arrangements of our modern
churches. These seats, and the others on the lower floo
will accommodate 1100 persons.
There will be three galleries—one at the west-end, and
one in each transept; all of them so slightly protruding
as to leave a large central and airy open space in the
middle of the building, there being no galleries at the
sides. The galleries will accommodate 460, making seat
room, in all. for 1,560 individuals. The western gallery
LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.
their confidence, to engage their aff-ctions, to induce them,
or some of them, to break off their heathenish habits of
Sabbath desecration, and to come to the service of our
church. We agree intensely with the demand which is
now made for lay assistance to the clergy for the
multiplication a hundred fold of scripture readers.
Without compromising, in the slightest degree, our
high ministerial mission, or the peculiarity of our cle-
rical office, we deprecate with all our zeal the disastrous
fiction that only ordained clergymen should teach Chris-
tian truths to their neighbours (applause.) There is no.
thing we more ardently desire than a wise, comprehensive
measure of Christian instruction, adequate—boldly ade-
quate—to the real necessities of the church, and guided—
prudently guided—and governed by the right rev. rulers of
the church. But their lordships are slow to move while
everything is moving around them (hear, hear.) If wis-
dom were invariably connected with slowness, we would
rejoice in their slowness ; but there are times and circum-
stances when it is wise to be quick ; and I am deeply con-
vinced that the time is at hand when move they must
(hear, hear.) All things conspire to cry aloud, something
must be done. And not only must this demand he com-
plied wi h from a desire to reclaim what has hitherto
been neglected, but it is required for the preservation
of what is already possessed. Safety for what is, is in-
separable from an honest an timely aim at what ought
to be. Christian instruction, universally adminis-
tered, is what ought to be. Nothing less will meet the
necessity. God is jealous, so jealous that He will not give
His glory to another: He will never yield to the schools
of human learning what is due exclusively to the temple
of Divine revelation. God must be honoured, or the na-
tion must be ruined (hear.) In vain shall commercial en-
terprise multiply her ports, in vain shall manufacturing
industry increase her mills, in vain shall practical science
annihilate the distanc- between the dwellings of mankind,
in vain shall sanitary regulations improve the bodily corn.
forts of the poor. if God be forgotten. If the rising streams
of our population be not in their incipient infancy guided
with a gentle hand into the channels of righteousness, they
will burst the bounds of subordination, and, in the over-
flow, they will endanger, it not destroy, all the rights both
of person and property (bear.) But, while we freely ad-
mit that the building of additional churches is only a Dart
of w.'at is required, we as strenuously maintain that it is a
very important part. We are thrown now, and have been
for a lung time past, upon the voluntary principle. We
are repudiated by the government ; they either can or will
do nothing, and we must do all. Sittings, therefore, to
be paid for, and the rents of which to go to the support of
the minister, the support of the fabric, and all the inci-
dental expenses inseparable from the due performance of
Divine service ; and si tines for the accommodation of the
poor, some of them at such rents as will come within the
range of the poor man's finances, at the same time that
they will give him the security, the comfort, and the feeling
of independence that he has appropriated his own seat all
the year round, and sittings entirely free, where the poor
man may invite Fos poor neighbour to come and join him
in public worship. This is the description of church
which it is intended to erect on this site ; and we shall
presently invoke God's blessing on the work. Respecting
the patronage of the church, five Christian gentlemen be.
came trustees for the discharge of that responsible duty;
and I would thus publicly recommend that tbeir first act
should be a legal appointment of a sixth, who, upon a de-
mise, would, ipso facto, form a fifth, and who would, with
the other four, legally appoint a sixth again—so that there
shall be always five. Take as much security as you can
for the continuance of a Christian ministry (applause);
and this is the real gist of the whole question. (Hear,
hear.) For what can a house do? What can a beautiful
house do ? It cannot tell the sinner that Jesus Christ died
for him. And what if there be a man put in who cannot
do this ? Then its like the dog in the
y, and
manger,
snarls which
keeps a place that a better beast should occupy,

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