The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-26
NEW
 CHURCH EDIFICE
Continued from First Page)

Miss May Lausen, J. P. Earle, c. H. Carter. Tracy Caldwell, Albert Cald- well, c. E. Head, J. Stevenson, Stan ley Rembert H. F. Head, Fred Fair, E. A. Smith, and Lester Kimberly.
 The new church, which the Rev Arthur J. Gammack, as rector will have. to present to the bishop for con secration this morning after the earn est endeayor of himself and his par isioners of years has been realized, is a beautiful edifice of stone built along the model of the smaller parish churches of England. It is the result of plans drawn by Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, the noted American archi- tects, who have endeavored to har- monize the older style of church building with the more modern church requirements The style is g modification of the English perpen- dicular and, while the church is not large the interior carries with it good impression of size and spacious ness.
 On the gospel side of the chancel is a chapel which is a continuation of the side aisle. This is enclosed in carved screens, in which can be in- serted glass in the cold season so that the chapel can be heated separately from the church. On the other side of the chancel is a cloister connecting the church and the parish house, where are the sacristies and choir rooms.
 The floor is of re-enforced concrete resting in concrete beams, and is fln- ished with granolithic, The building is practically freproof. The stone used intthe walls is am-faced trap rock quarried from West Rock. The trimmings inside and out are of con- crete.
 The normal seating capacity of the church is four hundred, exclusive of room in the chapel and gallery over the vestibule The length of the church from entrance in tower to end of chancel is one hundred and twen- | ty-nine feet. The width of the nave, including side aisles, is forty-nine | feet The total cost of the finished building, including architects fees, seating and heating, is $45,0O0. Five thousand dollars had been previously spent in the purchase of land and the moving of buildings preparatory to the building of the church. The cost of the organ and the fencing of the churchyard will be $5,O00 more, There Is no doubt that the Gothic style of architecture is the best adapt ed for a place of religious worship, | and those who have examined Christ church at West Haven are enthusias- | tic in their admiration; for this is one | of the finest pieces of Gothic work in this country, and 1t is especially inter- esting because the material of which it is built IS entirely taken out of the Ihills overlooking the city. The builders of this church did not go off a thou sand miles to get material, but, using the soundest possible reasoning, took l their material from a nearby source of supply, and the combination of trap rock with it's seam face and concrete self-made from trap rock is partlcu- larly pleasing.
 The church is full of beautiful and artistic touches and perhaps the most ] successful are the monograms in the tower, and especially in the concrete stone work which is, from every point of view, superior in endurance to lime stone and fails to take up the dust from the atmosphere on account of its greater density. Long after the lime stone in the bi-centennial buildings Is dsintegrated and these structures be come a pile of dust, this church will stand, and its material is such that fire will not hurt 1t, and it will moi only be a source of usefulness in the community, but a source of local pride
 As one goes into the door, standing in the nave there, there is an atmos. phere of worship and it should preach Its lesson not only to those who enter it's doors, but to those who pass along
 the street.
 The first step toward the realization
 of new church building was taken il
 the days of the reetorship of Bishol
 Lines. At that time fund was start I
 use for this purpose. Two years agt
 gift from Mrs. Lucy H. Boardman O
 this city was announced of $25,00
 which was conditioned on the raising O
 the same sum by the parish This con
 dition has been compiled with and tn
 members of the parish will have ire
 from debt a most beautiful house 0
 worship to show for their zeal and sac
 rlfices.
 It is seldom that church is openet for use at the time of consecration 0
 the building, because it rarely happen that church is built without debt, an, a church which is not entirely paid fo
 cannot be consecrated
 The pastoral staff of the bishop to be used at the ceremony this morn ing, being carried before him by
 chaplain appointed for the occasion. I is not often that this symbol of tn
 bishops office is used except at dio
 cesan functions. That it is to be use
 on this occasion is not without som
 particular appropriateness. The pas
 toral staff was given to Bishop Will
 Hams for the diocese of Connecticut
 when in the year 1884 lie went, witt
 several American bishops to celebrat
 i'll St. Andrews church at Aberdeen
 Scotland, the Seabury centenary and t
 commemorate the giving of the episco
 pate to this country by the Scottis
 Communion Office as the liturgy of tn American church. At the service hel in connection with that interesting an
 niversary, the present rector, Rev. Ar
 thur J. Gammack, was a choir boy i l l St. Andrews church.