. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . better trained than thestonecutters, and the woodwork habitually betraysthe result of this superior training, being at once morecorrect in design and very much more accurate indetail than the stonework, in the comparatively fewinstances in which classic detail was attempted instone.* Christ Church, at Philadelphia, was built betweenI 727-31, with the tower completed in 1 754 from adesign drawn by Dr. John Kearsbey, a IS a plain, pleasing brick structure with a not un-graceful wooden
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . better trained than thestonecutters, and the woodwork habitually betraysthe result of this superior training, being at once morecorrect in design and very much more accurate indetail than the stonework, in the comparatively fewinstances in which classic detail was attempted instone.* Christ Church, at Philadelphia, was built betweenI 727-31, with the tower completed in 1 754 from adesign drawn by Dr. John Kearsbey, a IS a plain, pleasing brick structure with a not un-graceful wooden spire without orders; the chancelhas a square end in which there is a very effectnePalladian window. At the end of erection it wasby far the finest building in the colonies. The life of the Southern planter was more de-voted to luxury and ease than to any especial religiouszeal; consequently he built but few churches of anynote. The best two examples are both in Charles-ton, St. Michaels and St. Philips. St. Michaels, •.MontKomerx ; li-i : A \- iiC (• iiiisiiTAi,. i; 17%. 65 66 CONSTRUCTION
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