Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-16
4ailg National 4eututrat
Report of the Secretary and Treasurer of
the New Presbyterian Church, Marys-
willie. October Iith. 1860.


with the occupation and dedication of the
magnificent edihce we to-day consecrate to
the service of the Most High, to review the
labors of the year which has given us this
place of worship, and to accord our need of
praise to those friends who have so literally
aided in this enterprise, and to the Commit
tee, who have so faithfully executed the will
of the Trustees in carrying out the designs
of that body,
On the 30th of August, 1859, the first work
of excavation was begun; from that time to
the present, the work has steadily progressed.
occupying little more that twelve month
to finish.
We had in subscriptions when the work
began about $4,000; but the building,
finished as you now see it, has exceeded that
amout 10y several thousand dollars, as will be
shown III the further reading of this report.
TIE BUILDING
Stands, as you are aware upon very eli
gible lot, S0Xl60, corner of d and Fifth
streets, and which was purchased by the
Board of Trustees in 1854, Immediately after
the fire of that year, which destroyed their
house of worship, which then stood on the
corner of d and Third streets The present
building has been placed twenty feet from
the line of ID street on the front, and fifteen
feet from Fifth street on the side, to afford
space for outside adornment, such as planting
shade trees, &c., &C., which the Trustees
have inview at future day.
In addition to paid superintendent, the
work has progressed under the supervision
and close personal attention of a committee
from the Board of Trustees, consisting of
Messrs. J. II. Jewett, w. X Hudson and +.
+. Low. The action of this committee has
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all monies have been paid by the Treasurer
upon orders drawn by the President, and
countersigned by the Chairman of the Build
ing Committee
THE STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE
Which was selected from some half dozen
or more plans, submitted to the Trustees by
various Architects from San Francisco, Sac.
ramento and our own city, and for a descrip-
tion of which the Secretary owes his ac-
acknowledgements to the successful Architect
is an adaptation of the principles, of the tram
sition decorated, English Gothic, as practiced
in the latter part of the fourteenth century.
The design being modified in construction,
ideas and arrangements.
THE CHURCH PROPER,
Consists of a tower nave, and sacra =
rum, or space recessed for the pulpit, and
the Architect has been enabled, from the for
tunate position of the lot, to place the Church
in the same relative position according to
early Christian canons, in which all the
earlier churches were placed, viz: The tower
to the West, and the ambon, or seat of doc
trine, East
The tower is Is feet square, containing a
large principal entrance from d street, on
the West, on the ground floor, which forms
a vestibule to the Church, and divided there
from by an ornamental glass door. Over the
vestibule in the tower is the organ gallery
and space for the choir
From the vestibule we enter the audience
room, of which the floor is six feet above the
street.
TIE AUDIENCE ROOM,
Or nave, is the full size of the body of
the Church, and about 70 feet in length, by
Al feet in width, and is "a feet high, at the
caves inside, with a raised ceiling, 33 feet
high from the center of the Church. There
are 76 crescent-formed pews, with traceried
heads of cast iron, and book racks, all
handsomely upholstered with crimson Da-
mask, which will seat about 800 persons.
THE CEILING
Is O prolonged tri. .segmental vault, with
heavy cross and longitudinal moulded ribs,
with pendants and drops at every intersec-
tion of the ribs, and terminating on the walls
with pendant shafts on ornamental corbels
A seeming baroness has been greatly relieved
las much as the Committee had it in their
power to do) by few inexpensive attempts
at polychromatic effect. Along the ridge of
the ceiling there has been left, though un-
seen by the eye, space the entire length
of the audience chamber for ventilation.
There are two small rear entrances to the
audience room, one from Fifth street, and the
other to communicate with the Pastors
study in the basement.
THE BASEMENT,
Which is eleven feet in height, the full size
of the building, is half out of the ground,
and entered from the outside on either side
Of the edifce, and also from the inside, by
the stairs leading from the vestibule into the
tower. 1t is not the intention Of the Trus-
tees to finish the basement at the present
time, but when completed, will contain a
lecture room library, ladies' class room and
Pastors study. A negative artesian well
has been sunk there for drainage. For the
present, the chapel will answer the purposes
of q basement
THE TOWER,
Strongly buttressed, rises to height of 80
feet from the ground in brickwork, termina-
ting in the belfry in an octagonal shape, with
the four corners Of the tower rising up out
side of the same, in detached buttresses pin
nacled, sustaining flying buttresses which
abut against the spire above thh tower.
THE sPtRE
Is of wood, terminating in gilt copper globe,
surrounded with ornamental iron work in the
shape of Maltese cross, measuring in total
hight from the ground, l47 feet. A winding
stair case within the turret at the southeast
corner of the tower communicates with every
stage of the tower and affords means of &C
cess to the organ gallery, Immediately over
the vestibule, as we'll also, to the interior of
the church roof and gives means of access
to all the leads of the spire, and the clock,
which will have its position there.
THE NAVE
Is divided into five bays on the flank, divid-
ed by buttresses of double stays. AT the out
side corners of the ediice, are double but
tresses, terminating with massive pinnacles.
Each bay contains q segment headed base
ment opening, and pointed arch window to
light the audience room over it (; these win
dows are Is feet long and feet inches
wide, and on each side of the tower arch over
the organ gallery, is a corresponding win
dow
The opening of the tower arch displays a
large double bnyed window, which is over
the church entrance door this, with all the
remaining windows being filled with traceri-
ed heads and supplied with venitian blinds
THE ROOF
Is of high pitch, covered with tin, and copper
valleys,
THE MATERIALS
or xyI;oh tba obureh il hnilt are MS follows