which, together with the spire, is of wood. From the sidewalk to the finial of the spire is one hundred and thirty-five feet. The spire, which is in the form of an octagon, is covered with shingles with circle ends, and is finished with round ribs on the angles. These are scarcely visible in the engraving.

The general external appearance of this church is exceedingly neat and tasteful. It is somewhat ornate, to be sure, but none too much so for such a city and such a congregation. Indeed it would do us no harm if Methodism had just such a church in every village of three thousand inhabitants in the United States.

The gallery is furnished with an organ with twenty-two stops, and costing $1,500. The tower is to be furnished with a bell

ORGAN

GALLERY PLAN

The main audience-room, including gallery, will seat about twelve hundred per

sons.

By turning back to the cut again, the reader will notice a few other features worthy of note. The large window in the tower, in front, lighting the vestibule, is highly ornamental, and useful, and the next above it has a fine effect; and even the little rose window, still higher, is exactly in its place, and gives a finished appearance to the whole.

Last of all, that prim little clock must not go unnoticed. "A quarter past eleven" --what can that mean? Does the morning service begin at eleven, and the clock show when the text is announced? or was the text announced at eleven, and is brother De Puy's subject just now beginning to open out finely before him, and he to warm up and become interesting? "A quarter past eleven!" What can it mean? But no matter. May the faithful clock keep good time, prevent all long sermons, (unless they are extra good ones,) and constantly admonish and finally reform all tardy slip-shod hearers who go late to

this-and now, clock, do your duty.

There seems to be a slight defect in the perspective of the drawing. There is too great a difference in the apparent size of the buttresses on the right and left, ir front, for so slight a difference in their distances. Thirty or forty feet difference in their distances, with the beholder as far off as the drawing supposes, could not make one-half difference in the apparent size of the buttresses, as is shown in the cut. By turning over to the next cut, it will be seen that the difference is far less. The apparent height also is diminished too rapidly from the front to the rear, the roof dropping nearly twice as much as it should. This is not the fault of our artist, but of the lithograph from which he copies. The church on the next page is in better perspective.

The entire cost of Grace Church and site (exclusive of the organ) was about twenty-eight thousand dollars. It is certainly a noble edifice-an honor to the people who reared it; and its erection will inaugurate a new era in the history of Methodism in Buffalo. Long may it stand and prosper in that stirring commercial city!

is placed twenty-five feet within the line of Penn-street, leaving a clear space of fifteen feet on each side. The whole is inclosed with a neat wrought-iron railing, as shown in the cut, and the space within sodded, and ornamented with walks, shrubbery, &c. The site cost $15,000.

DIMENSIONS.

THE building is seventy-five feet wide by one hundred and fifteen in length, including the extreme points of the buttresses. The side walls are forty feet high from the water-table, and the end walls seventy feet to the comb of the roof, forming a basement and main story entirely above ground. The tower is one hundred and sixty-five feet in height-quite a moderate altitude for so large a buildingand yet the reader will bear witness that it sits very gracefully in its place, and seems to be all that is necessary.

STYLE AND MATERIAL.

THE style of the building throughout is the decorated Gothic of the fourteenth century. The cut is a very excellent representation of its exterior. The four octagonal corners, running up fifteen feet above the eaves, with a finished termination, are exceedingly beautiful. The front is of cut stone, and the sides and rear of brick, with stone trimmings to the windows and buttresses. The bricks are painted stone color, and the roof is of slate, laid diagonally. The edifice was built by Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, after designs by Mr. J. W. KERR, architect.

BASEMENT.

THE basement is altogether above ground, and is light, dry, and airy. Its floor is two and a half feet above the surface, and there is a fine cellar under the entire building, which is used for the storage of coal, and as a location for the three furnaces by which the house is warmed.

The basement is entered by the three Gothic door-ways in front, opening into a vestibule seventeen feet wide, from which two flights of stairs lead up to the main audience-room. Opposite the central door, a hall, twelve feet wide, with class-rooms on each side, leads to the lecture-room. This is forty-four by sixty-seven feet, and thirteen feet in the clear. There are four class-rooms, two on each side of the hall, in the front part of the basement story,

each room being seventeen by twenty-six feet.

This arrangement is easily understood without a diagram, and must strike every reader as very simple, and every way convenient. Each class-room has one window, the vestibule has two, and the lecture-room eight. Either of the classrooms is large enough for the Bible class; but we see no sufficient provision for the infant class separate from the rest of the Sabbath school. And if our Pittsburgh brethren are as noisy in class-meetings as some of us are, it might have been for the quiet of the neighborhood to have located the class-rooms in the rear of the church, or one story lower. "No danger," says an old-fashioned Methodist at my elbow; "no danger of much noise, or religion either, in such a church. Religion, and organs, and steeples never go together." We trust our Pittsburgh friends will profit by the hint, and maintain their former zeal and spirituality, even with their steeple and organ. We see no reason why either, or both combined, should prove fatal to their piety.

MAIN AUDIENCE-ROOM.

LEAVING the vestibule, we ascend to the main audience-room by two flights of stairs, with heavy oak rails and balusters, landing in a vestibule above. From this vestibule the main room is entered by two seven-feet arched door-ways leading into the tower, which here forms a part of the audience-room. This is a new and beautiful arrangement for entering a church, constructed with tower and basement above ground. It gives a fine entrance at once into the body of the house, while it adds much to the general appearance and beauty of the room. It leaves the large front windows full in view, and gives one common entrance to all the aisles.

The organ, altar, platform and tower entrances, are marked in the cut.

The main room is eighty-one by sixtyseven feet, with a groined arched ceiling thirty feet high at the sides and forty feet in the center. The ceiling is finished with molding ribs, springing from caps supported by vaulting shafts and corbels. The general effect of the ceiling is very fine, being that of a nave and aisle ceiling, with this difference: there are no columns dividing a nave from an aisle. The ceiling is a salmon color, and the walls, groins of

The corner allotted to the choir and key-desk is inclosed with a railing of oak, surmounted with panels of open trelliswork, Gothic points, &c.

PEWS.

THE pews (of which there are one hundred and thirty-seven) are of oak, varnished on the wood. The doors and tops of the ends are of entailed carved work, champered panels, with black walnut numbers on the doors. The ends of the pews vary in design for each aisle, and the pews are cushioned uniformly with crimson damask. The aisles and altar are furnished with Brussels carpet, and the vestibule and stairs with cord matting.

The pews are partly sold and partly rented. The preceding ground-plan shows the estimated price of each pew, and the annual assessment upon it for current

expenses. The church will seat about twelve hundred persons, and all parts are eligible both for seeing and hearing.

GALLERY.

THERE are no side galleries, but two short ones in front, one on each side of the tower. They will seat about one hundred persons, and command one of the finest views of the body of the house. The gallery fronts are opened carved work, with battlement tops.

WINDOWS.

THE windows are all filled with stained glass of the most beautiful design and tints. The heads of the windows are

especially admired. A very pleasant effect is produced by each window being varied in tint and design. The rose window back of the pulpit platform is regarded as a gem of art, and adds much to the general effect of that end of the house. The glass was made by Mr. GIBSON, of Philadelphia.

Standing in the middle aisle and turning toward the front, the large stained glass front window is directly in view. It is twelve by twenty-five feet, and is divided by three stone mullions and a transom. The head is composed of segments of a rose window, forming a most beautiful design. There are six scriptural emblems in the stained glass in different parts of the window.

GAS FIXTURES.

THE house is lighted by eight chandeliers, which were designed expressly to harmonize with the general design and finish of the building. The burners of the chandeliers, and of the lights on the pulpit platform, are furnished with ground glass shades.

НЕАТ.

THE rooms are heated by three furnaces in the cellar. The warm air is conducted through tin tubes, built in the side-walls, which open by registers in different parts of the building-one in each class-room, two in the lecture-room, two in the vestibule, and four in the audience-room.

VENTILATION.

THIS is effected from the highest point in the ceiling by means of five large registers, opening into a tube four feet in diameter, which extends the whole length of the loft, and terminates in the tower.

A slide door is arranged over this opening, which can be opened or closed, as the temperature of the church may require.

THE ORGAN.

THE organ of this church is of a novel construction, or at least is placed in a novel position. It occupies a large arched recess behind the pulpit, and upon the pulpit platform; while the key-board is in the corner on the right of the speaker, where the choir are seated. The entire work of the trackers, draw-stops, rods, pedals, &c., extends horizontally beneath the floor of the platform, turn an angle under the pulpit, and thence into the organ -a distance of some forty feet from the key-desk; and yet the touch of the keys is said to be perfectly easy, and all under full control of the organist.

THE BELL

Is located in the third section of the tower, in which are seen the eight Gothic window-frames, furnished with blinds only, thus giving egress to the sound in all directions. It weighs about three thousand pounds, and cost one thousand dollars.

WESLEYAN AND CATHOLIC. If the reader will turn back and scan the

engraving closely, he will discover two small human faces, one on each side of the top. In the cut they are not larger than large central window in front, near the the smallest pin's-head. They are of stone, and constitute the corbel heads upon which These are the faces of John and Charles the hood moldings of the window rest. Wesley-John on the left, as seen from without, and Charles on the right. In the cut they look very full-faced, and exactly alike, as they are too small to admit of a likeness; but in the building they answer well to the originals, as shown in our steel engravings.

There is an incident connected with the sculpturing of these heads. In order to get a tolerable likeness, it was necessary first to have plaster models made after the steel engravings, and cut the stone after the models. But to model a likeness in plaster from a steel engraving is no easy task.

Bishop O'Conner, the papal bishop of Pittsburgh, is building a huge cathedral in the city, and had an Italian artist in his employ casting plaster models for it. Our trustees there could do no better than to get