The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-18
Correspondence of THE GLOBE.
THE NEW UNITARIAN CHURCH IN
BRATTLEB0RO.
Description Of the Struoture-The Dedication
DR.. Bellows Sermon-The Connecticut Val
lev Conference
BRATTLEBoRo, Oct. 10, 1876.

BRATTLEBoRo, Oct. IL, 1876
Editor Rutland Globe The new Unita
rian church in this village, is one Of
the handsomest and most complete
ecclesiastical ediices in New England,
1t is finely located near the head
OF Main street, and will be held as
one OF the proudest and most acceptable
ornaments of the place. Preparations fol
the erection OF the building were begun in
April, 1874, and the outside work was
nearly completed before wirter set in.
Work on the inside was continued through
the winter and last spring tue spirc wat
finished and the entire stone work pointed
The building is cruciform In shape, II feet
long and AZ wide. The material is mica
slate, neat ard durable stone found in 0
quarry in the mountain Just across the
river from Braitleboro, and the trimming
are of granite from the Black mountain
quarry. On the right front is pinnacle
rising to the hight of the roof and on the
left graceful and beautifully proportion
ed bell tower and spirc, 100 feet high, sur.
mounted by massive granite cross. In
the bell tower hangs the bell that SO long
swung in the belfrey of the old wooden
church which was removed to make place
for the new one. The porch projecting
from the front center Is a picturesque
structure of granite with polished Scotch
granite pillars The whole exterior pro.
portions of the church are fautless and i'm
posing. The style of architecture is Nor
man rather than Gothic, OF the time of
Henry VII in England. A new street has
which the church stands, and on that
side and in front the church
yard is bounded by substantial wall Of
interstate with a granite coping. The
steps leading to the main entrance are of
granite. There is also an entrance in the
bell-tower and one leading to the ante-room
behind the pulpit. The auditorium is IA
feet high on the walls and "a feet in the
center. The walls are wainscoated In
panels to the window sils and pastered
above. The rafters are sheathed with wood
'"' 'po oe,''s u"Sseu WIN DAYS Inc
into panels. The walls are buff with dark
er bordering. Under the cornce on the
two sides of the n~veis the text, .'Blessed
are the pure In ~, Tor they shall see
goo. Inc pulpit stands IN delicately
lrescoeu aicoVe III the ieft transept the
organ occupies recess the front level
I win inc wall pane III the hight tran
sept Is inscrioeu WIN the text, And this
Is lie e'ernai' mat they might know Thee,
lhe only true uou. ana Jesus Chiisi whom
Thou has sent. Above in the spandrel
are 'he "oruS's''o 200 Is love. There Is a
gallery IN ifoh' OF tue nave which, with
inc puip''' 'he pe"s ana the wainscotlng is
OF soild piacK walnut. me church is light
Ell oy nine memorial windows as follows
~ front a iafse rose wluoow' In Inc nave
Ola 'wo'hs"' "i"oo"s' ana IN the transept
TWO large 'hree-ieht WINDOWS. These
"'"'o"s "e.o all 'reSeh'eo ny 'riehos Oh
."e 'eoea'o" "hose memory lhey arc
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W Ian "n' ieP'eso'''' "i''''an' 'oiia'eo
aurora me so'''n 'ransep' WINDOW Is III
nos,or If tho cb,rc,, .rd ,anrosa',, ,ha
Lat sumner Christ rho Cnnsc,,,nr and
tho 1y;so M, Ora,,n, .,,a,-,
or,o,o Tho oo,t,, ,rorson, ,,;naa,,;, -,
memory If Rev Dr Wells ,roso,,o, ~,
w n Wells oeo Of New Yorl I, hos
for Subjects Chris,,oacborao 10 ~. Anns,
les Christ RIessing tho Cbi,dren and tho
Sermon on The Mount with n croun If
angels above The windows in tho nave
are IA follows. South side No. ! in
memory Of w s Rrooks Subiect
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of Henry Wo,co,t Ro,estier and Caroline
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Good Shepherd and the Light of the World.
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