New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-11

HDe Of intersection Of the nave aud transen, bab;nd
which Is chapel dedicated to the Blessod Virgin and
which alone - feet III length and the same in width
The floor of the Cathedral has saoerGciaI srea of
3, 500 feet and will afford sufficient room for 4 OO
persona When necessity requires 1t, thus number
might De saieiy increased TO OOO The main body Of
the church alone suicen ly spacious 10 hold 10000
persons ali Of whom can the high altar and asSsi
al the celebration of the therest The columns
which sepa ate 'he nave from the side ases are each
&c feet Va diameter AZ the base aud are "a in number
They what is known as the Gothic clustered hav
ing 10 columns in each cluster and are Constructed of
the same material as the rest of the building
marble Beside those, there ~ half columns of the
game description at regular intervals along the walls
and between the chapels and sidewalks
"Tbe building is entered in front by three great
pOrals after the style of the French Cathedrals The
center portal is 30 feet high, aud decorated with rich
moldipgs, columns, and tolaed capitals. Over the
great central door grand rose or marigOd window
20 feet in diameter and rsng above 1t rich croch
cited gable, surrounded by a final cross, On each
aide Of the g1eat center portal and over the two side
DOORS is tower with spire that rises from the form
of square at its base to that of an octagon The tower
idvded into four stories below the point at which the
spire may properly be 'aid to commence. Each Of
these slires is $40 feet in hight TO the base of
the cross, and is crowned with a final and cross.
The ir,nls of the two iransepts, which face north
and south on Fiftieth and Fitty-hrst streets con-
sist each of three divisions the whole appearance
indicating the internal features Of this part Of the ed
fee. The center division has door 70 feet wide and
43 feet hugh and this entrance ia grand window
orpamented with rich tracery, IN style corresponding
with the rest Of the building Above the window is n
finely -panelled gable, terminated by pinnacle, thu
top Of which IL l55 feet from the ground. The two sid
asles embellished with exqusitey tracened win
dows hanked BY large ocagona buttresses and pima
Giles 10 less than IA feet in diameter and l2i in hight
The whole number of large windows in the building ia
ID OF which there eight ia the rear and thirteen
each aide, lighting the side ases while there are thir-
teen In the cere story, what may DO called the acc
Ond story, 70 light the center aisle. The
terror IL lie tho rest of the ed6ce built Of white
bic from the Westcheser quarTies, with the exception
of the base course, which is Of granite. The white
marble has been selected in preference to the usual
building stone on account of its greater durability 9nd
a the ornaments, holdings traceries and ying but
tressss are made of tha; material The interior walls
are als lined with il t. certain blight. On entering
the building, Of the principal features which viii
the first glance strike the Observer is the beauty Of
the srcbed and groined ceiling. IL ia constructed of
brick pasered, with highly wrought ribs and fOaged
bosses The groniDg ofthe style known as the star
patterr Huch has been introduced for the first time
into Cathedral architecture, and the effect of which is
peculiarly appropriate and artistic. The windows pre-
sent the same rch carving and tracery which mark the
reet Of the Cathedral aud which serve much 10
highten it's general beauty, and filed with ensm-
eed and stained glass, smbelished with scenes ag.
aud devices from Scripture history. They of
two thesnesses of glass the outer frame being set two
incbes from the inner one. The advantage of this
rapgenent will be at seen from the fact that it
will equaze the temperature throughout the building.
IN this respect w1l resemble st. Peters at Rome in
which uniform temperature is preserved at all sea-
sons of the year.
ain one Of the towers are the chimes, and in the
other the great bell according TO the arrangement of
The ED CathedTsIs of Europe Unlike the generality
Of churches in ID city, il has no basement; but, in it's
stead Understanding vaults, from which the edifce
Will be heated by steam-ppes, rarriying through its
various divisions. The floor of the building is made of
yareRated ma bles and stones in Gothic patterns,
hst the uniformity of the designs on which the Cahe-
drsl has been planned preserved in its minutest de-
tals The whole Of the vast edice stands upon plat
folm which ia raised average high of tive feet
above the level of the street. and which adds gresy TO
the general effect. The space covered by the walls,
inside will be in superficial measurement 80 500 feet.
The entire space beneath and within the buresses will
be &C. $40 feet. The architects Messrs James Rem
wick, jr., snd William Rodrigue."