Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-11-26
The New Episcopal Church.

st. Stephens Episcopal Church in this
place that has been so long building Is at last
completed and the first service will be held
in it next Sunday morning at 1890. The
Bishop of the Diocese mad appointed Satur-
urday, the 2Sth, as the day upon which he
would come and open the Church and held
Confirmation, but sudden pressing duties
compel HIM to deter this until Wednesday
next, December End. when he purposes ia
come. The service next Sunday, However
will be held in the church.
The church is frame building; the plans
and drawings tor which have been furnished
by the Missionary IN charge, Rev. X Whit
| ingham. The builder and contractor being
Mr.. Joseph A Wcddle, of this place. The
Church is designed to seat 200 persons con-
yenicntly being 40X30 feet with chancel ~
x14 feet. 1t is open roof. the main tlmbcrs
showing, dressed and blocked The root
construction is peculiar, being so designed
that the rafters themselves form the trusses
requiring neither king or queen posts ham.
feet, footing on n brace rafter 20 feet. All
the wood is hard, Of the best yellow pine
Oiled and vanished The peak OF the root
is thirty feet from flooring. The walls are
10 feet from sllls to plate The expanse OF
roof within is lighted Ivy six Gothic Dormcr
windows, three on each side. The nave is
lighted by six pointed windows, three on
each side. A large wheel window six feet
in diameter lights the west gable while a
smaller round window feet in diameter
lights the East end. The church is SO placed
on the lot that Orientation is preserved, the
chancel being due East. There is but one
AISLE north and south leading from the main
entrance, which is placed in porch on the
south side This aisle is SIX feet wide
There are three alleys lengthwlse Of The
building, the middle one three feet wide and
the two side ones % inches, thus giving free
access to two blocks Of seats, eleven feet in
length, at either end. These sittings art
capped with standards of ash wood, oil filled
and polished.
The windows are all filled with stained
glass; Cathedral glass, loaded, made by Scin
& Co., Baltimore.
The porch is carried up IN two stages con
tanning belfry and ringing room and sur
mounted by tin splre, with Latin cross tor
final, 40 feet from the ground.
The bell, or properly speaking, gong
weighs over 200 TBS 1t was cast at the Nc
Shane Bell Foundry, Of Baltimore, and is TIT
exact shape of a gong, being about 80 inches
in diameter. The tone IS deep B flat. Th'
money was raised in noyel way, VIZ:
With bell cards, each card having so bells
upon it and each bell represented 10 cents
The amount was raised principally by chill
dren.
The chancel is raised by three steps from
the nave and is twelve feet deep. The sanct
uary is raised one step from the choir, and II
it is placed the altar, raised SIX inches on
I 10 inch foot pace. The altar is 4 feet il
length, is of quartered oak exquisitely fin
ished. This, and the prayer desk and knee
ing STOOL sedalia and lecturn, are all of oak
oil filled and polished, from the Globe Fur
nishing Co., Michigan. The sanctuary
divided from the choir by rail OF polishc
brass, with sliding telescope tube, instead c
the usual gate.
The Chancel window is a memorial gil
and is Il very exqulsitcly stained glass repre-