The New Wesleyan Church.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 75, 22 September 1894, Page 2

The New Wesleyan Church.

The new church consists of a main nave 30 x 50 with a 5 feet deep alcove at one end and a back entrance porch at the other, : and' a 10 x 6 entrance porch at each aid*. The buildmglis Gothic in character designed and adapted to wood, as the , building material, and is set ofT by an Ujfipoa* ing elevation facing Qrej street. 'Thia elevation is nicely treated and relieved by the projection of the alcove and immediately above the alcove by an ornamental Gothic window.; The gable of this elevation is finished at its lower end with small turrets or bell-cots and at its apex with neat ornamental spandrils and carved finiaj. , -The aide elevations are broken into bays by pilasters and against each pilaster is an open framed buttress designed to take the thrust of the main roof principals and at the same time combine the useful with the ornamental. The porches at the side of the nave are each provided >with two pairs of entrance doors the- object . being to allow ipgress and , egress from- , the front ox back of the porches according ■ to the prevailing weather. The nay« (which is cfntered from the, porches V through pairs of baize doors hung on - noiseless spring hinges) is of coarse the chief feature of the building, it is 27ft s:n high from the floor to ceiling: The floor is laid with a rise of 15 in 40 feet thereby giving the cbngrega» , tion an uninterupted view of the minister and at the same time adding to the acooustic properties of the church (whioh by the way bay* been carefully studied by the architect in the designing). The walla are neatly dadoed all round 4 feet high and - above dado are /broken ;^nto 10 feet wide bays and lined with T'joWteid match lining. The ceiling (which ia coved) is broken into bays by the framed principals and mouldings and is a distinct feature of the interior. The pulpit is placed in the alooVe and [With Itoaaall iHircnw,) a^fpic^

rituu and kauri, the common rail and kneeling step is immediately in front o! the pulpit on a slightly raised platform. The interior decorations are very pleasing to the eye, the walls, principals, architraves, etc , being picked out in tints of a very light French grey, and the ceiling lining (which is of picked rimu), dado, pulpit, etc., are oiled and " flatted " varnished. The exterior is picked out and relieved in two colors in the painting and the alcove and porch roofs painted with (English oxide) hematite. The building is very well lighted, and the windows glazed with muffled cathedral and Miranese glass. The ventilator, which is also a special feature, is through the upper parts of windows (which are hung) as inlets and through perforated ceiling ventilators as outlets and finally through louvre openings in apex of gables both back and front. The whole of the work is well and neatly finished. Builder, Mr R. Heald ; contract carried out under Mr W. Heald. Plumber, Mr P. Thompson. Painters, Messrs Watson Bros. Architect, T. H. James, of James and Heaps. The total cost, without the seating, amounts to £450.