The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-29
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH.

ana ATch-A beAuItful BtEueNuEc-A De-
scription of the Parts-COst About $780,
600.
The. congregation of st. Johns Lutheran
Church, on Race street above Fifth, have de-
cided to erect new church structure at the
southwest corner of Broad and Arch streets.
They have appointed a building committee and
selected the architect He has submitted his
plan, which has been found to be satisfactory.
The ground on which the church will stand
was formerly three distinct lots, and was secured
at q cost of 100000. 1t measures seventy-fve
feet on Arch street, by one hundred and thirty
nine feet on Broad street, and being capable
therefore of accommodating q larger church
than there is now in the city.
The church proper will be on the second floor
of the building, and in its general dimensions
will measure in length liz feet by 20 feet in
width. There will be on the main floor $50
sittings arranged in rows of seats separated by
centre aisle six feet wide, and by two smaller
side aisles four feet wide; while in the galleries
there will be 300 sittings, making altogether
HOO. The height of the buildiHg from the
church floor to the apex of the main roof will
be sixty feet, that of the side aisles being thirty
feet. The clere-story arches will be supported
by polished red and chocolate colored marble
columns from the quarries of Vermont, Lake
Champlain, and Rose Crystal quarry of New
Jersey. These columns will have loriated caps
of Caen stone elaborately carved, and bands aud
bases of black Belgian marble highly polished.
The arrangement of the arcading of the aisles
will be such as to give to the interior the effect
In the western wall above the organ there
will be a large traceried rose window, ten feet
in diameter, forming, with the decorated front
o. the organ, prominent feature of this portion
of the interior. The recess for the pulpit will be
at the south end of the building, and will occupy
a space of twenty-five feet by thirty.l
The altar itself will be the principal feature
at this end of the building, and will stand de-
tached from the walls around and occupying
spoce of about sixteen feet square in the centre
of the platform. Its centre will rise about
twenty-five feet from the PLATFORM in the form
of highly decorated canopy, octagonal in plan,
with polished marble columns at It's angles.
Back of the altar there will be handsome
stone-pate tracery window, fourteen feet wide
and twenty six feet high, filled with richly
stained glass. A corresponding window, some
what larger, will occupy the east gable on Broad
street, and form a marked feature of the tran
sept. The main roof of the building will be of
open timber construction with curved, arched
braces handsomely moulded with ornamental
tracery work in the spandrels; diagonal rafters,
of the same form, being placed at the intersec-
tion of the transept roof with the main roof.
The material of which this beautiful church
will be constructed will be of serpentine stone,
with the dressings, arches, and string courses of
Ohio stone, and coping of Hummelstown brown
stone. The shafts of the doorways and win
dows are to be of Franklin stone, the pre-
dominating character Of the design being
Gothic.
The western porch and tower will be con-
nected by an arcade or covered way of four
arches of Ohio stone, with Franklin stone col
umns, the height of the top of these arches
being about eighteen feet above the level OF the
pavement.
At the northeast corner will rise massive
tow Ter, 26 feet square at the base, and having an
almost unbroken outline to the height of 90 feet.
At this level, and at each angle of the tower,
there will be circular turret feet in diameter,
and SO feet in height, and from the level of the
pavement, 142 feet. Between these the upper
courses of the tower will be boldly projected
out, making the square of the upper portion of
the tower on line with the projection of the
turrets, and giving castellated effect to the
whole. Between the turrets will be Louvre
windows of bold design. The entire construc-
tion of this portion of the tower will be of light
Ohio stone, relieved by occaptonat bands OF
Franklin, andlwitb background of green stone.
nice to the height of forty feet, and will be sur
work, fifteen feet high. 1t will be covered with
slate arranged in bands of color with angle
dressings of copper. On each of the four sides
| of the tower, below the turrets, there will be
| large circular windows, with tracery of Ohio
stone, and having boldly relieved arches oi
| alternate Franklin and Ohio stone. The entire
| height of this portion of the edifce, from the
| pavement to the top of the cresting, will be
| It's feet.
The space Immediately above the tower
| entrance on Arch street will be occupied by
band of Ohio stone, on which will be carVe(
the opening line of Luther's hymn, "a Mighty
| Fortress is our God"
The cost OF this building will be abou
| 100000.