Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-06
Trinity Church.

It's Interior Greatly Beautiffed by the
 Recent ImprOvements-What the Work
 Will Cost.
 The work of remodelling and improving the interior of Trinity church, which has been in progress for over three months, has progressed so far that very good idea can now be gained of the appearance of the church, and on these pleasant autumn after moons a large number of visitors, most of them ladies, enter and admire the beautiful decorations. The church retains it's old familiar form in the interior. The galleries and the arches are there as of old, but they have been so richly dressed after the best manner of the decorators art that they are scarcely recognizable. The work on the in terior is now almost completed. The work of tiling and painting the vestibules and of touching up some of the pillars remains be- fore the work can be called final. It is not likely that the church will be ready for ser vices much before the first of November. Upon entering the edifce the beautiful fres- coing is at once noticeable. It was done by William Haley & Son, of Bridgeport, and is of an original design, which is conditioned upon the height of the ceiling, the light from the kaIeidoscopic glass windows and other ef fects. The prevailing colors are greenish- blue and bronze, with Examinations of gold, and the style is distinctively medieval, al- though there are suggestions of Byzantine, Roman, Grecian and Pompeiian work. Be ginning at the capitals, the paneling, at first in small patterns and strong color, naturally softens as the arches widen, line of pro- portion being observed, the patterns growing in size and differing in style toward the top of the arches. The union with the window borders is very satisfactorily formed by lines run horizontally on the walls. embracing width occupied by tine capitals. The capitals themselves have been changed and improved and the workmen yesterday were putting in the last The columns are to be frescoed in gilt. The whole effect of the fresco work Is that of richness and solidity. It is full of artistic feeling. It is really stencil work, mosaic, no attempt at raised effects.
 The new seats are of wood known as 'three, quarters oak" This is white oak pre-. pared in such a way as to bring out the grain ing of the wood very finely, although at cost of considerable waste of material. The railing of the galleries is also of the same wood and the wood work in the vestibules will be painted in imitation of the same. The seats are very easy and are finished in hard O1lS ana ruDDeQ QOWn Tn Sucl 8 way a5 to hI1 up all the pores and interstices of the wood and make it very hard and smooth. They are not as high as the old ones and the doors are ornamented with sawed work of 8 neat design. The gallery seats are grained The painting and vanishing has been done by F. A. Gilbert and is very creditable.
 The singers gallery has been extended and the organ revarnished. A new pulpit has been put in which is the most elaborate and beautiful of it's kind in the city. The lower half is of oak, the upper of fine gilt. It was
 made in New York A new bronze lectern has also been added, in place of the old one New and elegant chandeliers and gas fixtures will be hung and new Brussels carpets laid when the other work has been completed. Vestryman Futile said yesterday that the church was not likely to be readg for use be- fore the third Sunday in Octobsr, and it might not be ready then. There have been several delays in the work, and one, the failure of the tiles to come to hand at the time agreed upon, has post poned the completion of the work consider ably. The cost of the alterations and im- *12, 600 and $15, ,O0O. The church will seat pie, an extremely large seating capacity for 8 church
 The people of Trinity church and society have now an ediice for worship which, in point of the originality of de- sign and skillful and artistic blending of coIors, compares favorably with any church in the country, the finest churches in New York and Boston not being excepted.