St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-29
NOBLE STRUCTURE
THE PROPOSED ROMAN CATH
OLIC CATHEDRAL AT WEST
MINISTER.
1T IS TO COST $4,000.
THE PLANS FOR 1T OUTLINED BY
THE LATE CARDINAL MAN.
MING.
The Great Structure Now Going
Forward Under Cardinal
VauShan's Direction.

The Roman Catholics of England
propose to erect one of the finest
and most impressive cathedrals in
all the world, and have recently laid
the corner stone of a most imposing
edifice designed for that purpose.
1t is thirty years since the scheme
for this cathedral was suggested by
Cardinal Manning. 1t was this emf
nent prelate's notion to erect the pro-
posed cathedral in memory of his
predecessor, Cardinal Wiseman, but
although ably seconded by the gen
erous aid of many leading English
members of the Roman church, 9TH
er matters pressed so closely upon
him that realization. of the scheme
has necessarily been deferred till
now. However, he secured the site
of the Tothill Fields prison, West
minister, London, for building spot,
and it is upon that site that the
corner stone was laid one day late
in June of this year. But it was
Cardinal Vaughan, assisted by Car
dinal Vogue, the primate of all
Ireland, who conducted the cere-
mony, for the lamented Manning
was not permitted to live long
enough to witness even the begin
ming of his plans embodiment.
According to the architects plans,
the new cathedral. will be truly
noble building. Its total length is to
be $50 fet, its width 1876 feet and it's
height 80 feet. The campanlie Or bell
tower will be 300 feet high and will
form the dominating external orna-
ment. The design of the cathedral
will be of the Byzantine order. The
external elevations will be simple, but
the doors will form an exceedingly
rich decorative feature, and the west
ern entrance, by the side of which
the campanile will stand, is to be over
thirty feet in height. Upon entering
this door the whole of the cathedrals
interior will be seen. The nave is to be
2i0 feet long and 60 feet wide in the
clear, while there will be transepts,
aisles and side chapels. The floor of the
apse will be raised some feet above
the level of the nave and will con-
tain the monks choir. In this, as in
Milan's beautiful church of SAINT Am
brogio will be followed and as in
that structure the monks choir will
be visible from the main entrance In
certain other details, however the
style of the new cathedral will par
take of the churches of San Marco,
Venice and San Vitale, Ravenna
The total cost of the new building
will hei not ia from S7S0 OO0
uous efforts are to be made for the
completion of the structural work
within the next two years. Nearly all
the interior decorations, to be carried
out as funds permit, are to consist of
colored marbles and mosaics, the lat
ter illustrative of the history of the
Roman Catholic church in England
the Apocalypse, Old Testament types
of the Christian dispensation, New
Testament history and the lives of
saints. The ceremonies at the corner
stone laying were elaborate and i'm
posing, and were participated in not
only by many English dignitaries of
the church, but also by many Catholic
members of the British nobility.
Cardinal Vaughan. upon whom has
fallen the mantle of the lamented Man.
ming in the construction of the new
cathedral is described as the hand,
soonest prelate in England. He was
born at Gloucester in 1882, and was the
eldest son of Lieut. Col. Vaughan, of
Courtfield. member of one of the
most ancient English families; one of
those which, like the Towards. re-
manned faithful to Rome throughout
the reformation. The Vaughans had
ever held high place in the state. the
army and the church, but the present
cardinal no doubt is more highly dis
tinguished than any of his ancestors.
He is a thorough aristocrat and Tory
by all the rules of heredity These
facts occasioned some dissatisfaction
among English democrats and Irish
Nationalist when Vaughan was made
an archbishop, but it was learned after
his elevation to the see of Westminster
that his long association with Cardinal
Manning had somewhat Softened the
asperities of Vaughan's traditions, and
he has proved quite a popular prelate
with both the democrats and Irish.
AS a speaker Cardinal Vaughan ac-
CURED a considerable reputation while
yet he was no more than plain DR..
Herbert Vaughan. AS a writer he has
made some mark, his productions, how
ever, being chiefly pamphlets and news
paper articles He is not entirely un-
knOWn III America, Tor IN 1871 he was
sent out by st. JoSephs Foreign Mis-
sionary college, of Mill Hill, Middlesex,
England ian institute founded by him
self, with the first detachment OF
priests who came to Maryland on a
special mission to the colored people OF
the United States. He was left a cons
siderable property by his father and is
the owner Of the London Tablet, the
Roman Catholic organ in England, and
the Dublin Review. Through these pa
pers he has exercised great influence
within the line of his church in both
England and Ireland, and while, as be-
fore stated, he represents the old school
in some degree he is a real social re-
former and an earnest advocate OF
municipal pleasure halls where con-
certS, physical exercises and dramatic
entertainments may be provided and
light and harmless drinks may be- sold
In his early days Cardinal Vaughan
was a soldier. Having decided as a
young man to follow the footsteps OF
his father in a. military career, he vol
unteered for the Crimea and served
with credit there. When he entered
the priesthood, Cardinal Manning was
his superior in the community of OBJ
lates at Bayswater, from which
Vaughan was transferred to the bish
opric of Stafford in 1872. 1t was ther
that his remarkable career as an or
ganizer of Catholic institutions, espe,
cially educational began, and it was
his success at this work that brough
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