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Show Architect Answers Critics of I Modern Skyscraper Cathedral M ALFRED QRASdKK. ARCniTI'.CT. Sn Ills PROPOSED SK.Y- K BCRAPEB CATHEDRAL. K Bz Jt' GIBBONS i CHICAGO, Jan is "Tweni ieth cen-! I tuni" Christianity Is best expressed in .works of science nnd modernism, i "It's giving religion the lie to keei j on modeling our new churches after I thos'- of tin.- Middle Aires." That's how Alfred Granger, nationally nation-ally prominent architect, answers his I critics Granger's the man who's bulldlnR 'a $6,000,000 skyscraper cathedral to j house activities of tho Episcopal diocese dio-cese of Chicago. His critics are a group of Anglican church official who nay It's heresy to abondan tho Gothic type of architecture architec-ture that'a traditional in Anglican cathedrals. Foremost among them is Dr. William T. .Manning. hishop of New York. They've gono so far as ti sa Granger should be ousted from the church. But Granger's going right ahead with his plans for a cathedral that look Just like, a modern office building' build-ing' "The groat Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages accurately expressed the ! life of the day." Granger says 'Bu' there's no need of restricting church ft bulldln lay to the limitations o! m medieval builders. iH "We should use In church build-ings build-ings .he aids and advantages science has conferred on the living generation Wt '' It's not sinful to have an elevator in a church." IIJ 1 i-'.ger'.M office building cathedral. "o far as the church section 1? con- .1! be modeled on Anglican Br traditions The nave will bo 92 feet 'he crown of th0 vault anl will be BB ' i by clerestory windows. Fpj MOre Merit Will com from lancer i Windows, while ti memorial chapel? mf. and baptistry along the north and . I SOUth aisles will be lighted by sk - By lights. The skyscraper church will be 25 .stories high The 400-foot tower will Hfl Ivlded lno offices. Jut as In an aH offlci building;. Hut In all the office Bfl business of the dloces -will bo trans- iH i acted none will be rented for secular 'Vj purposes, Bp The cathedral will stand in the ttBJ heart of Chicago's exclusive Mich: BH I gan boulevard chopping district. |