The Sunday-school of to-day : a compendium of hints for superintendents and pastors . the house the practical daily parish the windows of several rooms can be grouped insuccessive bays, chimneys and vent shafts can be made toform effective stacks, and the scale of the church main-tained in the house by many architectural opportunity of making a small thing look large byskillful handling and by unifying the composition of agroup of buildings is so often frittered away in incompe-tent hands, that it seems necessary to recall it here as oneof the necessary elements of su
The Sunday-school of to-day : a compendium of hints for superintendents and pastors . the house the practical daily parish the windows of several rooms can be grouped insuccessive bays, chimneys and vent shafts can be made toform effective stacks, and the scale of the church main-tained in the house by many architectural opportunity of making a small thing look large byskillful handling and by unifying the composition of agroup of buildings is so often frittered away in incompe-tent hands, that it seems necessary to recall it here as oneof the necessary elements of such a reconstruction. Circulation. The church and the house are to be usedtogether. If they adjoin each other, the connection be-tween them should be through direct entrances : if theyare separated, through cloisters, permanently enclosedwith glass or enclosed only during the winter months,in which case they will serve as extended passages should be wide, direct, well lighted,and without steps, except where flights of stairs are HOUSING OF THE CHURCH SCHOOL 43. 44 THE SUNDA Y-SCHOOL OF TO-DA Y necessary, aud these of the full width of the passage audwell lighted. Stairs. The stairs throughout the house should beeasy of run, having a rise of seven inches, and a treadof thirteen inches, conforming in their arrangement tothe requirements of school and theatre laws in the stair landing should be not less than square, of adepth equal to the width of the run, with rails of a con-venient height for children, or one low and one high doors opening upon the passages should be wide andwith a glass panel in each. For class rooms they shouldopen inward; for meeting rooms outward. Noneshould open upon any stair landing, nor be close to thehead of the stairs. There should be no sliding doors inthe main circulation. Above the doors aud in the par-titions, large transoms should open upon the halls forventilation, for lighting them, and for the cheerfulas
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