A GREAT CATHEDRAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 9

A GREAT CATHEDRAL.

America's great cathedral of the Protestant Episcopal Church is being slowly completed. The building was begun 20 years ago. and within'3o years moroflio entire edifice, dedicated to St. John tho Divine, promises to be to Xew York what St. Paul's is to London. In a sense also it. will lie America's Westminster Abbey, because hero many of her illustrious dead will lis buried. This great metropolitan cathedral, like the basilica of tho .Sacred lleirt at Montmartrc,' Paris, is set upon the city heights. Already .CSOO.OOO has been spent on the cathedral, and <£3,509,000 more is required. St. John's hopes io rank fifth amongst- the,'cathedrals of the world in point of siiw., In ./ho construction of the cathedraL Gothic architecture, predominates, with groined roofing," and the spire, when erected, will lx) about 50ft.' higher than tho cross of St. Paul's. Tho interior of tho central-area depends upon ono 'single great dominating feature for effect—that of:a large central space, grandly domed, and leading up to, tlio long, distant vistas of tho altar-and choir-loft. The organ is a remarkably fine iietrunient, aad lias-cost .£13,000. ;