The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-29
A TEMPLE OF STONE.
Description of the Proposed
New Plymouth Church.
WORK TO BEGIN iMmEDlATELy
An Audience-Room whers All Can See
and Hear the Preacher and Choir
Many improvements.

Ground fof the new church building of the
plymouth Congregational church society will
De broken In few days The structure will be
one OF the most imposing and magnificent
church buildings on the Coast, the wellknown
architects, W. L. Boone and William II. Wilcox,
having been engaged for several months in
arranging the plans to meet the needs and
desires OF the church management. As stated
In Yesterdays PosT-IxTELLiGENcER the build ng
VIII stand on the northeast corner of Third and
University streets, facing ON the former
horoughfare and covering an area Of g0xl20 feet.
Inc onildlng completed will cost $4,000 but for
the present the part containing the pastor
study win not be built. and this omission will
necessitatc the immediate expenditure of only
about $5o,OCo
The exterior OF the building will be con-
sfructed OF stone, with n tower on the south
west angle twenty-five feet square. and, inclu-
sive OF short spirc, l36 feet high. Another
smaller circular tower will rise from tie south
side. in the base OF which will be spacious side
entrance. Elaborate and costly stained Plate
glass will be used in the windows, aud every
thing, both inside and outside. will be RS dur
able aud substantial as can be made. II Ii to be
built IN the early Gothic style of architecture,
and will be fine addition to the number OF
very crcditable churches on Third street.
The audience room will be seventy eight feet
wide and eighty-six feet deep. with gallery for
choir OF fifty voices. The prayer meeting
room is to be twenty feet wide aud twenty-one
feet six inches long, and the music room
for the choir will be fourteen feet by
2ll5 feet in dimensions The ap-
proaches to these rooms will be from
each angle OF the building. with commodious
Hobbies, vestibnlc and stairways The floor of
the audience room will dip toward the pulpit,
the pews to be arranged curyilinearly, with the
aiscs rad;ating from the pulpit towards the en-
trance. The main ceiling will be finished in
open timber-work and it will be 80 feet high.
The sunday school room is to be ISL. feet
wide BY 81 feet long. and adjoining this will be
the infant class room aOI5 x36 feet in dimensions
Two other class rooms will each be twenty feet
six inches long and fourteen feet wide. Adjoin-
ing these rooms the plans provide for a roomy
kitchen aud pantry conveniently arranged, and
large toilet rooms. A library il also provided.
The plnns also snow, on the second story, facing
on University street, large parlor twenty feet
wide and twice as long, the pastors study half
that size and another large room.
The audience room Is carefully planned to Sc
cure the best results OF sound and sight and
ease Of exit. Besides the aisles diverging in
different directions toward the back of the
church, there 10 to be IN aisle completely en-
circling the room next the wallis The pews
being arranged in concentric Kucs, are of vari
GUS sizes, nnd the seating capacity OF the whole
church will be about 1000. There is to be no
gallery, and the columns which are usually
found in churches, aud which obstruct sight,
are absent.
The seats are to be graduated In elevation so
as to put every nearer in full view of the
speaker and the speaker in full view OF every
person in his audience. There arc no corners
or projections to break and no angles or fccesses
to divert the sound of the voice, either before,
behind or beside the speaker.
The ceiling of the choir gallery is finished
trumpet-shape, so a. to disseminate the sound
unbrokenly. Thorough ventilation Of the whole
building win be accomplished by two large vent
shafts on the exhaust system.