The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-06-23
All saintss church. /

ne new vEplScopu sCuuICn, VI fIiiS sptdoe,
was commenced last summer, --ana we. then
promised description Of it when completed
Fhe time has arrived to redeem that promise,
and we will now endeavor to do SO, according
10 the best of our ability and with as much
brevity as is consistent with the nature of the
subject.
All Saints is in what may be termed the
Early, or Simple Gothic style style very ap-
propriate for small church ediiccs, and where
the amount of funds at command does not war
rant a more elaborate and costly style. 1t was
designed throughout by W. RUSSELL West,
Architect, the gentleman who now has charge
of the new State House, at Columbus, and
whose reputation in the line of his profession is
becoming favorably established, by several fine
edifices in the west, particularly the church at
Madison, la, which is universally admired. 1t
is situated on Court street little south ofthe
corner of Fourth, and the architect has adapted
the plan to the peculiarites Of the situation.
The church is 85 feet inches long from east
to west, and So feet inches wide from north to
south, reckoning from outside to outside of the
walls. The buttresses of the tower project 8
feet, and all others one and half The walls
are of brick, l6 inches thick, and adding the
plaster, it leaves the clear space inside about
S2i by 50i feet. The foundation walls are
sunk deep below the surface. especially in front
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and fuel. These walls extend from one and
half to three feet above the surface, of cut
stone, and the floor rests gpon them
The side walls are 16 feet high above the
floor. From the top of these, the roof rises four
feet over the aisles on each side, and from
thence I'll rises sharply, reaching The height of al
feet over the center or nave. The side walls
are each strengthened by 7 buttresses which,
except at the tower, pass into the wall, by slo-
ping offsets, Just below the caves.
The tower occupies the southwest corner of
the edifce, and is IA feet inches square from
out to out and 10 #. in. in the clear. 1t is 56
feet high from the top of the foundation walls
to the coping of the parapet, with turret chin
ney feet higher. 1t is in three stories, the
first 12, the second %, and the third or bell
loft IS feethigh in the clear. tits strengthened
by two buttresses on the side and two in front,
with three feet projection until above the first
story, where they diminish by sloping stone
capped offsets to one and half, at which they
continue until just above the bottom of the third
story where theypass by offsets into the wall.
The base mouldings, butttess offsets, string
courses, window sills, steps and coping are of
stone from the quarries near the city, and were
cut in workmanlike and finished manner by
Mr.. Charlesworth of this place.
The front presents a chaste and characteristic
appearance the tower on the south occupying
one fourth of the entire width, the pointed ga
ble of the center running up to height of forty
feet, and the porch on the north occupying the
same width as the tower, with its separate ga
BILE hiding the roof over the north aisle.
There are two main entrances from the front,
one in the tower, and one in the porch. There
are two windows in the center portion at the
ordinary height, and large circular rose win
dow in the gable. The doors are double, Of
massive oak grained battens with fllet cover
ing the joints in front. On both sides of the
door-ways are columns supporting heavy pointed
arched mouldings There are two tall glazed
windows in the front of the tower opening into
the second story, and two others in front and
on the side in the bell loft, with venetian blinds
The door in the tower opens into the vestibule,
from which there is a passage into the south
aisle and another into the center under the Or
gan loft. The other main entrance opens into
the porch, from which there are passages SINH
lar to those in the vestibule leading TO the north
aisle and center besides another down into the
furnace cellar, and also flight of stairs lead
ing to the organ loft and from thence into the
tower.
The interior is divided into three portions by
two rows of columns the two side portions or
aisles being each one-fourth the width of the
interior, and the center portion, or nave, one
half. The columns support purline plate, on
which rest the heads of the side rafters and the
feet of the center ones. Each column is com
posed of four three-quarter round columns
clustering around square pillar, each compo-
nent column in the cluster having its separate
base and capital.
Over each column, the rafers are double, and
in the center these are strengthened by collar
beams, From the cap Of each component col
umn, facing the Sides-which cap is about half
way from the floor to the roof-springS curved
brace or segment, meeting another Of the same
kind which springs from corbell, at the same
height in the side WALL. and forming pointed
arch which supports the principal rafters of the
side roof From the component columns
facing the front and rear, and at the same height
as before, spring similar segmentS forming a
pointed arch under and supporting the purline.
From the caps of the component columns facing
to the center, and about feet above the caps Of
the other three columns, spring larger pointed
arches, reaching up to and supporting the collar
beams of the principal center lafters.
The roof is ceiled on the outside with good
jonted boards, and the ceiling, together with
the rafters, collar beams, plates, and indeed the
whole internal carpentry, is left open to view,
giving the whole novel appearance to eyes
unaccustomed to this style of architecture
The columns, arches. rafters. ceiling, &c. are