New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-26
IN MEMORY OF CLAIMING.
MEMORIAL CHuRCH AT NEWPORT.

THE MEMORIAL CHURCH AT NEWPORT.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR ITS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TON OF THE EDIFICE-THE MEMORIAL WINDOWS.
,rRox AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
NEWPORT, II. L., Sept. 20.-The Charming
Memorial Church will be dedicated at this place october
10 with imposing ceremonies. The dedication sermon
will be preached by the Rev. II. W. Bellows, d. D.. OF
Eew-York the morning of the 10TH and in the even
ing there will be general service at which addresses
will be made by the Rev. Drs James Freeman Clarke
and George E. Ellis, of Boston, A. p Putnam, of
Trooklyn N y, f. H. Hedge, of Harvard College, and
W H. FurDess, OF Philadelphia Original hymns for the
services been solicited from Henry W. Longfellow,
John G. Whittier. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Julia Ward
Howe the Rev. William p Tilden and the Rev. Charles
IT Brooks thought that the church will be nearly
II not quite completed the date set for the dedication
II was originally intended to have the services the latter
part of present month"; hut found impossible to
complete the work in The church when compet-
ed will be one of the finest edifces In New-England
The OF which the church is built is rich req
granite porphyry the owners ofthe quarry at Ola
LYME Conn., whence it taken prefer to call IL. The
above is faced gray granite quarried at Mford,N
H. The architects call the style victorian English Goth
&C. The spre very conspicuous and is clearly visible
from points as distant Fall River, and its beauty
impresses all who it, The at the apex 100
feet from the ground The interior is very chase and
simple fully in keeping with the life and character of
the man in whose memory the church is built The
audience ia Al feet wide and 113 feet long. A
transept crosses the church the southern end,
adding by rs OF each side. There 112
news with the exception of in each of the TRANSCRIPTS
they extend straight across the church. The seating
eapacty of the church ia 600 The backs of the pews
which are richly upholstered, feet apart and
under each heating pipe to be filled with steam
The pulpit occupies wide platform at the south of
the church. the space usually occupied by the altar in
churches of the same style of architecture, leaving
nenty space which the architects appear have had
some difficulty in bringing into In the of the
pulp PARTITION of cherry separating the lower
norton of the semcrcular window from the body of
the church. and the space thus separated called the
pastors room" The southeast the cdifce is
occupied entry and the corresponding space the
opposte corner the pastors left hand recess for
the organ which yet has not been PLACED in position
In the opening for the is raised platform
for the choir Nearly all the woodwork in the building
is highly polished cherry. The arches of the roof of
which there five between the ransept and the front
are graceful and artistically designed The height
from the floor to the apex of the roof is
about fifty feet. Along the apex of the
roof is visible double row of ven.
tlating apertures which to discharge the air
which admitted by OF traps slides Just below
the lights of glass in all the windows The plan of ven
tatOn could scarcely be improved upon The walls and
root perfectly white the walls being plain and the
decorated with neat moresque designs wrought in
fbrous plaster Extending ateray across the roof is
space about ten feet wide in which there series OF
tons of ehaste designs. which are left
blank for paintings With memorial work. or such
committee on either side of the centa space referred to
extend threepanels which arsticay in the
plaster and designs mentioned above All the windows
with the exceptions OF those in the vestbue be
and in the ransepts have not arriy ed, and will be
long time before this part OF the church
-Four memorials already in position there being put
in in memory of Mrs, William A White, Timothy
Coggeshan. the Rev. Charles r. Brooks an ex.pastoT
who is living, John I. Bush, and the fourth
In memory OF the ldtter's wife. The windows to
be put in place by far the most elaborate large
arched front window, which is now being finished in
ton, in memory OF her husband. This window consists
OF three sections and Is most elaborate affair." costing
about $1,000. The semi-circusr rear window
Just behind the pulpit is be- put in BY
cipaly by Mrs. Matthew Arnold wife of the English
poet ana essayist. The western transept Window
is by George II. Norman of Boston, the memory OF
the late Rufus b. Knsey; The eastern window
Of Barnabas Barnes, who chiefly instrumental in
the Introduction OF cheap postage in this country
daughter Mrs. Simonette of Boston, whose husband
was ali Episcopalian, aud who followed him into that
memorated her fathers devotion the Unitarian faith
The eastern trausept window is 10 the memory
or Miss shaw, OF Brooklyn, who killed near
NewDort by runaway horse several years ago
All the windows protected the outside by thick
panes OF hammered and ribbed glass There
dOws Just above all the trauscpt windows.
will be lighted from series of brass candeabra which
surround the auditorium projecting from the walls
there will be about three aud fifty gas let's TIE
entire cost of the building and the memorial windows
will be about 100000, about Onefourth OF
which was contributed by members of the society
Subscriptions have been received from all OF this
country, and small sums constantly arriving from
DR.. Channng's friends and admirers in Europe.