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Show 'VORK IN BUILDING. tional Idea9 Disregarded by the 'sbitects-An Attractive ifew. I " ark Church. BE ADMIEED ANYWHERE, 0f its External and Internal Nov I elties'A SI301,4 Bkotch of the Donor. iodie Memorial Baptist church aik the most recent and most ,eesvmple of ettclesiastical archi-tiB archi-tiB the metropolis of New Jorsey. situated on Broad street,, in the ueartcf the city, and the pleasing miressiva mass would attract at-.. ;saBrwhere, though it is doubtful l.jran uninformed passer-by would "that it was a building erected for oM worship. The architect, .Mr. . HalsGV Wood, has not been re- I iei by the conventional rules of I iastical architecture, and the only I .m jn the exterior of the bnild-f'the bnild-f'the purpose of the structure is in ' Dinted towers, one teller than the and with clustered spires. I predominating idea of the whole nanesque, though the dome is By-m, By-m, and the short, thick columns of ggia and the loggia itself are early tt The arches are Romanesque, as othe belt of sculpture which en-s en-s tbe upper story of the two prin-fronts. prin-fronts. On the apex of the dome pire representing an angel with a pet This figure has excited a deal al criticism. The loggia, through Ii are the main entrances to the X opens upon a vestibule sheltered ring doors of oak; the inner doors e vestibule and the partition sepa-5 sepa-5 it from the auditorium are of r plate glass, through which those Sng have a complete view of the ior before entering. THE INTERIOR. e general effect of the interior of the ling is as novel in a church as the ior, and it is equally agreSable. Low ries sweep around the greater part arcle, and there is no chancel. The jmuiating tone of color is that of old with deeper shades of reddish n and amber. The woodwork, with iception of the pews, which are of nor, is of North Carolina pine, iwhat darkened by oil. The wood e inner dome is unplaned, with the ition of assisting the acoustic quali-i quali-i the auditorium. lefew wall spaces are of marble and ) in warm colors. The pulpit, which ther low on the floor, is almost di-y di-y beneath the great skylight in the of the dome. Behind the pulpit e baptistery, a somewhat narrow dure, the floor of which is higher the platform of the pulpit. In the of this is a decorated screen of ry wood and hard pine, which rises endicnlarly and cuts off the rear ion of the dome. Behind this screen the Sunday school rooms, three esin height and with an entrance t the street. 1 lere are six stained glass windows in rant of the church, four of them be-nemorials be-nemorials of deceased members of ongregation. Four windows on the Ii front are occupied with one con-oM con-oM composition representing the ism of Christ. A landscape and ' scene stretches through the four lows, and the figures of the composi-ocenpy composi-ocenpy the two central windows. K0VELTIKS IN DECORATIONS. the semi-circular recess in the north- angle of the church on the second are three memorial windows and tablets fixed into the walls. These :ommemorative of the life and serv-' of the late Henry Clay Fish, for; y years pastor of the church. This k opens into the auditorium through Me arch, and affords a retiring room Me for social greeting for the conation. con-ation. An impressive and beautiful t of the interior is a vast nrch that ' the perpendicular screen in the of the pulpit platform, springing j either side of the building and g into the dome above. This arch nched with tracery of a Moresque !tTi and bears on its face in illumin-letters illumin-letters the words, "These stones 1 be his memorial." posite this and spanning the recessed of the second or gallery floor, in a are the windows on the front, is a fine 'arch: this is supported on -r ade by largo, delicately carved K the work on which is of remark-beanty. remark-beanty. To the left of this arch, as 'aces the pulpit, is a small balcony f " wall, the entrance to which is P 'be pastor's study in the north fr- Prom here is obtained the best FMthe interior of the edifice, the u's of 'be elaborate architecture be-Nsd be-Nsd into harmony, while the mel-teer mel-teer from tbe great yellow sky-1 sky-1 above falls down in a flood of !!ed color. On either ride of the Kil at the base of the memorial se the clustered pipes of the two church was the gift of the late udie to the First Bantist conirre- -a, of which he was long time a tov Mr' Peddie came fr0111 Scot" 10 Newark when a young man. He 0 Q-s career in Newark as a jour- trunkmaker. Beginning tbe Wacture of trunks and bags in a wa', his business grew with the . and he became a very rich man. iiUllh is the memorial he chose -f. Harper's Weekly. |