Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-06-29
For the Gallipolis Journal.
The New nj. f.. Church.

The erection of their new church
by the Methodist Episcopal Society
of this city, on the corner of Second
and Cedar streets, as fully COM
pleted, stands to-day, as credit to
the society and an honor to the city.
In its proportions, viewed from any
and every point, by an eye critical or
perceptive, it at once strikes the eye
of the beholder with pleasure. Its
solidity and beauty, enhanced by its
finely proportioned and towering
spire, give to it an attraction that can
scarcely be excelled if equalled.
In this edifice the Architect has
not confined himself to the rules of
any particular period, or the special
style in any region, but the church
has been designed in the spirit of the
English Gothic, which prevailed in
the thirteenth century. The church
is cruciform in shape, with length
of eighty seven feet, and width from
ont to out of sixty eight feet. 1t is
constructed of brick, with freestone
water table and window stills. The
walls are relieved and supported by
bnttresses capped with freestone.
The main front, with the entrances,
is on Second street. In this gable is
a gothic window, nine feet wide and
twenty-four feet high, the central
figure of this front of the edifice. The
Cedar street front, composed largely
of the gable produced by the tran
sept, has large triple window and
two double windows.
From the southwest angle rises
the tower, eighteen feet square at the
base; it rises sixty-twO feet to the
clock tower, which is diminished and
rises fifteen feet with four gables and
four wheel frames seven feet in di-
ameter, to receive clock faces; this is
surmounted by the spire proper, con-
structed of wood and slate, sixty
three feet high, making the entire
height from the pavement one hun
dred and forty feet.
The building is two stories, the
lower room being designed expressly
for a Sunday-school and lecture
room; it has four Bible class and two
infant class rooms, opening into the
main room, with sliding partitions
so arranged that all the classes can
be brought into full view of the su-
perintendant's desk. This room is
high, airy and cheerful, and while
specially adapted for Sunday school
purposes, at the same time affords
excellent accommodation for the
prayer and class meetings of thp
church. Coming ont Of this room,
we are in the vestibule, which is en-
tered by three double door ways from
Second street. The vestibule is ca
pacious and neat, its floor is covered
with mating. Broad stairways on
each side lead from this to the upper
vestibule. These stairways, by their
mechanical perfection at once impress
the visitor with the excellence of the
design. Fhree sets Of double doors
open from thence into the main audi
ence room, facing each a broad isle.
This room is the principal feature Of
the edifice. In its harmonious pro-
portion, its beautiful windows, its ele-
CANT carpet and chandeliers, its pews
and altar railing, and the arch that
forms the back ground Of the pulpit
and aitar, gives pleasing effect.
The shape of the church crqciqrH
gives the idea of the architect in
planning this room; it. is to group
the audience just as closely to the
pulpit as possible, the altar and pull
pit being the center Of half circle,
which has proved to be the only form
producing perfect acoustic effects.
Fhe Haye is sixty feet in length;
across the paye and traqsepts sixty
four feet The peVg are made of
Rsb and black walnut, polished in the
post skillful manner, aud so arrang- I,
ed that all persons in the house can (