Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-16
new CHURCH ED|FICE
Plans of the Congregation OF
ST. Pau;'s. ..
WILL SEAT SIX HUNDRED
teen Thousand Id ,il..rp. Probably he
Located ;Ith street. H>t.v en-
Washington s. l. ,fayette Ayes.

Some time late in the Spring. or pcs
sibly, not before early Summer the
congregation of st. Pauls Episcopal
church will be worshippjng in their new
building. which will probably be
erected on Thirty fourth street, between
Lafayette and Washington avenues.
though a definite statement of the
proposed site has not yet been given to
the public.
The vestry at its last meeting dis
cussed the features of the new struct-
Cre. and suggested their ideas to the
architects who are now at work on the
lians, which will be submitted at the
next vestry meeting. to be called By the
rector. Rev. J. Francis Rbble, some
time before Christmas. The plans ac-
cepted. bids will be asked for, and the
work will begin Immediately and push
eu to completion with as much speed as
the weather will permit
The building will cost somewhere be-
tween ten and fifteen thousand dollars.
and will be Of brick. With q seating
capacity of about SIX hundred. or over
Gouble that Of the present church. 1t
will have a frontage of fifty or sixty
two feet. but the depth has not yet
keen decided. 1t Will certainly not be.
less than hundred feet.
The present building was erected in
1883. and seats between tw" hundred
fifty peoI,le The ,ttend,nca i,ss hann
too large for the acrommodation the
membership Of the church having practi-
CaliE doubled in the rectorShip of Rev
MIR. Ribble, which began March LIST.
10 build a new church th.. nrasent ht
irr sold. There vas however !, for
n,aity to be gone through with before
the property could irrevocably pass
sent of the Bishop. The church when
;t is consecrated is turned oyer to 1he-
diocese. and before it can he nisnosed
of it requires the pern,ission az the.
Bishon In this case the R:shon h,d
been corsulted. of course. and it was
known that his permission would be
duly forthcoming which il was ar
irving Wednesday. 0 -.
There are but two Episcopal churches!
in the county now. st. Paurs. and the.
little church at Morrison's In colon
ial times. so populous was the county.
that there were no less than eight
parishes in the county. Warwick was
the original one of the eight Original;
shires in 1884. 1t became a county ana
a parish at the same time. It is sup
posed that the vicinity Of Newport
News formed Lower Denbigh Parish
ana thai church stood Somewhere:
within that space marked by the linn
It's OF the present city, but ITS e%ac';
location no o:e KNOWS All eie pu!id-
lngs OIL ,he church IN the county aus
appeared eScept me one al Deho'sh-
nov owned ps me baptlsts:
-. 80 s Spi itiI ''!eseiis -, .'ie eonn
ca.lo'i IN Nor!olk, .,ie to,i,'i.'o.i ~ il
VIZ ~ , ~ ~, ~, al'u :. Mas
81 10 es.ani,s'' me e',urc'' ~ me c",I,l.s
49, 'n,n, ~ 80 So, ,,st ~
1lsn W. W. ~ 49, -. h,. :,
1S;a,,n, 60. :. 49,. ~ 80. oyaa,
* 80 ....o,...aG.G ~ ~, Henry
T.hael,... in whns. ractorsbin the firs-
yestr, vas ei-1.trd ana Warwick wa.
,eadn,it1ed 10 the conyocation. sandin.
delee,,t.s TO the convention that elect
ed Riyhnn Randolph.
Rev. Mr.. Mayo returned to the county
again in 1884. was succeeded by Rev
w n Mead who-was succeeded by
Rev Fir. Townsend. after whom Rev
Mr. Mayo again took charge. turning
the irish over to the present rector
The vestr*. as at present constituted
consists Of the following gentlemen:
Messr::- w. II. .andon. Senior warden
and Treasurer: ]. l.. Marye, II. Junior
warren: &: n. C:oWsii; Keglst!ar;
lEdwlT .h!lslns tSicharu Walker: W.
scott iscreh'oh. A. =. t.arhett' ~. -
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