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Calvary Church, Cliflon.•’X y * ** . '' : j£\ fThis graceful and elegant edifice, which would ornament any city in the United States, was opened for divine worship yesterday. From its Infancy, iu 1848, the society was known as Clifton Chapel, and is now the Episcopal Society of Calvary Church. We give below an account of the details of the building and of its builders and officers. The chaste and beautiful tower, 120 feet In bight, which cost $14,000, was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Probasco, as a monument to tbe memory of their brother, the late Tyler Davidson,Esq., of Clifton.The sermon of the day, by the pastor, Rev. Samuel Clements, was suitable to the occasion. His text was from Luke, xix: 9~‘'This day has salvation come to this house.” The music was of the very best character, being provided by the voices of Clifton ladies and gentlemen, who are equal, in many respects, to professional vocalists.The attendance was quite large, both morning and evening, the congregation being made up from the various families of Clifton, and there being only a few strangers present.The new church Is a cruciform structure of hammer-dressed linnet one, with freestone dressings to opes, buttresses, e., and a cut freestone epire surmounted by a cut-stone cross.Its general character is early English transi-lioual in some of its details.The church is about seventy-three fe^t long,ihciuding the tive-sided apse, of about fouri.^n feet deep and twenty-one feet wide. The nave, thirty-six feet wide; transepts, twenty-five feet wide, aud including breadth of nave, about seventy feet.Tlife tower stands at the southwest angle, andoutside the line of the side wall. Projecting from the tower is a scmi-circular stoue-stairs, leadingto the bell-chamlier.The north transept is screened off as a vestry, and above it is the organ gallery, approac hed by a stairway from tin* side entrance. The south is screened off as a Sabbath-school, with exterior eutranee, and both forming doors of egress from j the church also. The organ gallery projects Into the nave, supported by brackets resting on buttresses, the front enriched with appropriate columns, paneling, 6uThe bight of the side walls is about eighteen and a half feet above the floor, and, at the apex of the ceiling, it is about thirty-two feet.An open frame roof rests on cut-stone corbels of various /orms; the wood work chamfered, molded aud varnished. The ceiling is divided Into pauels by the bearing timbers supporting the ceiling, and forming a considerable space alwve the ceiling to the roof, which rises to About forty-three feet above the floor.
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Jan 20, 1868
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