The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

OUR BRITISH SEAMEN AND THE NAVIGATION

CHURCH EXTENSION IN LIVERPOOL.

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have been attended with additional expence, but we think
the money would have been well laid out. The interior.
ST. SIMON'S PARISH CHURCH. I we think chaste and beautiful, whether we look at the
This beautiful edifice was consecrated, on Wednesday, to light and open framing of the roof, the great expanse at
the service of Almighty God by the Archbishop of Canter- the junction of the nave and transepts, or the massive bat
bury, the Most Rev. Dr. J. B. Sumner. This being the first tasteful treatment of the chancel arch and the ceiling be.. parish church which has been consecrated for many years, yond—all harmonizes and is in good keeping, and although
coupled with the fact, that the interesting ceremony was our contemporary of the Mail terms the reading desk and
to be performed by the distinguished Prelate who has pulpit a box of obstruction ; to our mind, we never saw r
been recently elevated to the highest office in the church, more compact arrangement, or one which looks better in
caused a numerous attendance, and the church was execution ; its situation is central, it is not too high, and
crowded to excess. Several gentlemen, friends and sub- from every pew in the church, the minister can be seem
scribers to the building fund, occupied places near the distinctly and at the shortest possible distance. The foat
pulpit. The Rev. Rector Brooks took part with the is an elaborate piece of masonry, octagonal in form, with
Archbishop in the consecration service. The Most Rev. beautiful and delicate tracery and carving, with shafts at
Prelate took for his text the 17th verse of the 22d chapter the angles and sunk and carved pannelling ;it is cut from
ofß,eVelations,"Whoeverwiii,lethimtakeofthewatercflife a single block of stone, and is highly creditable to the
freely." After defining the nature of the water - -

Iployed three months
, it will not be al_
on a platform of wood

We trust, however,

y
rack of ihe.pulpit and communion rails,
ad on the encaustic pavement. The
'ic tiles of blue, buff, and red—laid
eautiiul ; these tiles, we learn, are
Esq.. of Stoke-upon-Trent, wile)
time and money in perfecting this
of flooring. The communion rag
ito panels, with rich tracery, and
-----:—nts. The end or chan,
arranged in the tracery,
y for the glass-stainer.
'cimen of modern build-
ing being uninterrupted
The pews are large and
..". 1,-, There

trude upon the cluireb:
mportant feature in the
be minister can be heard
,uilding. This was very
' the consecration, wile*
the most powerful, was
ar limits will not allow
ion of the building, but

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It adverting to the sys-
hich is being adopted.

is hot water, arcs,

treme ends 01 the aisles,
constructed underneath
41 is admitted through
he whole length of the

perficial feet of grating,
iole. The cold air is

•ent apertures, any one
direction of the wind.
will be formed in the

fire or gas-ring, so
tt. This system Of

a.re ext(

,ed in viiri:

y esta-

t by Arr. Bewsher,
out by the archi-

,ut two t

ended by 3
and J. liol❑

''and 'Wilson,'
and
The IV> TIA

me church was a
!an or design. This
to Mr. Holme we

up 'ii. Limes (a
n, style, and every

aistake an earn

its ex-

i of an old qai
set, in the thick
to be a

As we believe the
.t the level of the

,hbour, the Earl

that we had pro-
p is the arehite4

has been a little

[e, and

.haracteristics of

;11 a little out in
ty which was to

um with re-

fining a peaceable
award's the

with neigh-

I-R Ives

ith the preCiett;
cus future, who

paltry sixpence

receives

awe way hare a

of his retaining
. The hundred

to have crossed

ie oracle has

;ss promises,
Even she of

such tr
all in a

errand

would have iu,.

their ordinary-

1, and

budget

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