The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-12

brick, with terra-cotta trimmings, and
will have frontage of 100 feet on
Thirdavenue and 130 feet on Scher-
merhorn street. It will be three stories
in height, and will have tall, square
tower at the corner where the streets
intersect. There will be nine en-
frances on the avenue front and on the
street side of the building, each open
ing from vestibule directly opposite
the foot OF an aisle.
The main auditorium, which will be
arranged to seat 5000 people, will be
reached by easy tiers of steps, both on
the interior and exterior of the build
ing. The steps to the entrances will
be broad and the doors wide and high.
The first floor of the church will be
eight feet below the level of the street,
and will contain large hall to be used
for prayer meetings or lectures, and
30 arranged as to accommodate 1000
people; drill room for members of
the Boys Brigade, commodious dining.
rooms for sociables, reading-rooms
and library rooms for the Kings
Daughters, young mems parlors, &C..
commodation for the Ladies' Aid and
'Dorcas societies, work rooms for mis-
sion work of all kinds and toilet
rooms.
1t is intended to have members of
the Sundsy-school assemble in the
main auditorium, after which they
will retire to class rooms underneath
the gallery, where rooms are to be
formed by an ingenious arrangement
of poles and curtains. Before the
regular church services begin these
will be placed out of sight, leaving NO
evidence. Of the auditorium having
been used for anything else.
The main floor will be entirely sur.
rounded by large and deep gallery,
in which there will be seating accomo.
dations for the congregation, except
in that portion directly over the pull
pit platform. In a semi-circular re.
cess back of the pulpit platform will
be placed tho large $4,000 organ,
which has been removed from the old
church OF Pierrepont and Clinton
streets and which is now in storage.
1t is the biggest organ of any church
in Brooklyn. In front of and at its
sides there will be space for chorus
of 200 voices, which it is intended to
organize under the leadership of Sig.
J. G. Brocolini, the choirmaster at the
church. Just beneath the organ loft
there will be placed white marble
baptismal pool with retiring room on
each side.
Adjoining the main auditorium on
the Schermerhorn street side will be
the assistant PASTORS study anc the
church Offices. There Will also be
rooms on the opposite side of the au-
ditorium. In the rear OF the main
building there will be an extension
three stories in height and twenty-five
feet square. On the first floor OF this
extension will be the kitchens, pan
tries and the store rooms OF the
church.
1t is designed to cover the entire
structure with one roof, forming o
pointed dome. The dome will be cov-
cred with enamelled, mottled Roman
tiles. There will be no obstruction
in the auditorium to mar its grand
proportions. On both of the street
sides of the structure there will be
large rose and mullion stained glass
windows, with scriptural and en-
blematic designs. The interior finish
of the church will be in hard wood IN
natural colors and handsomely fres-
coed plaster.
To the pastor, the Rev. Cortlandt
Myers, is due the credit of the new
church's many original features. The