The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . rson; the woiksafter that period proceeded with great rapidity, and on the3d of November, 1824, the church being in a state ready forconsecration, that impressive ceremony was performed by theLord Bishop of Winchester, and on the succeeding Sunday wasopened for divine worship ; the Rev. Jon. Tyers Barrett, D. appointed the first minister, and the Rev. J. Rigge theassistant. The church is a large and substantial building of brick, withstone dressings. In plan it is an exact parallelogram, withoutany
The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . rson; the woiksafter that period proceeded with great rapidity, and on the3d of November, 1824, the church being in a state ready forconsecration, that impressive ceremony was performed by theLord Bishop of Winchester, and on the succeeding Sunday wasopened for divine worship ; the Rev. Jon. Tyers Barrett, D. appointed the first minister, and the Rev. J. Rigge theassistant. The church is a large and substantial building of brick, withstone dressings. In plan it is an exact parallelogram, withoutany attached building or projection, having a steeple and porti-co at the west end. Upon the space between the roadway andthe church is raised a walk or terrace upon arched catacombswhich extend also beneath the whole floor of the church. Theentire western front consists of an hexastyle portico of the Gre-cian Doric order with entablature and pediment; the columnsare fluted, and the whole raised on three steps : within theportico are five doors leading to the church, belfry, the princi-. DISTBI st. Johns district. 291 pal galleries, and those appropriated for the charity wall above is marked with five windows, the centre beingglazed and lighting the belfry, the others blank. The southand north sides are uniformly plain, each containing twelvewindows in two series, the upper large and parallelogrammatic;the lower small and slightly arched. With the exception ofa single anta between the windows nearest the west, markingthe partition of the body of the church from the vestibuleswhich contain the staircases and entrances, the walls are onlybroken by the windows and several unsightly water-pipes. Theelevations finish with entablatures and cornices without para-pets or balustrades. The east front is made by antae intothree divisions, the centre contains a window, lighting the altar,and in the two lateral divisions are smaller windows belongingto the vestries; the whole is f
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