. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . mmM uaaif *$ •^?^jS ji^^ . l^^^i ^^ S^^Z JInBa ws^fVj vasln AtME;* CORNICE DETAIL. VK^, CITY HALL. NEW YORK CITY. the larger and more pretentious of the two, wascommenced in I 752 from a set of plans drawn pre-sumably by James Gibbs and brought over for thepurpose. The South Carolina Gazette of Febru-ary 22, 1 752, says in describing the proposed edifice:It was to be erected from designs drawn by , an Englishman. The addition of the sonon the end of the name can readily be account
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . mmM uaaif *$ •^?^jS ji^^ . l^^^i ^^ S^^Z JInBa ws^fVj vasln AtME;* CORNICE DETAIL. VK^, CITY HALL. NEW YORK CITY. the larger and more pretentious of the two, wascommenced in I 752 from a set of plans drawn pre-sumably by James Gibbs and brought over for thepurpose. The South Carolina Gazette of Febru-ary 22, 1 752, says in describing the proposed edifice:It was to be erected from designs drawn by , an Englishman. The addition of the sonon the end of the name can readily be accounted forby an editorial error, as no eighteenth century archi-tect by the name of Gibson has been handed downto posterity. The church is 130 feet long by 60feet wide, having a square tower and steeple 168feet high rising from separate foundations. A beau-tiful portico with four colossal Doric columns, sup-porting a pediment, projects from beyond the older than St. Michaels, havins been. DETAIL or CHRIST CHURCH, PHIL-* I A. built in I 733, St. Philips is very similar, althoughthe tower is not quite so high or so slender and thedetails are coarser, points naturally expected onearlier buildings. New York can still boast of two ecclesiasticalstructures of colonial times, the chapels of St. Paulsand of St. Johns, Varrick street, belonging toTrinity parish. Both of the Trinity chapels areof the Wren type. The older one, St. Pauls,was built from 1764-66 by McBean, aScotchman, supposed to have been a pupil or assist-ant of Gibbs from the strong resemblance betweenthe interior of this chapel and St. Martins-in-fhe-Fields. The other, St. Johns, by John McComb,was built from 1803-7. The chancel and choirare very effective, the architecture of each beingdistinctly marked. The towers of these chapels arequite similar, being slender and graceful composi-tions. That of St. Pauls is the most pleasing, as itis the more slender and tapering. The porches ofthese churches dif
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