Article January 13, 1934 Issue

Among the Churches

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The Daily

Sydney, Australia (Third Church).—Builders' tools have now been laid aside, and Mosman is possessed of a new church structure. The building completed thus far is the first part of what will eventually become the permanent home of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, when the main church edifice at the rear of the present building and facing the Crescent is erected. The structure is designed in a style somewhat different from the orthodox Gothic of our forefathers, and shows a marked leaning towards a Romanesque Gothic. Finished with a textured plastic brick, relieved with synthetic stone base, quoins, and parapets, the warm mellowness of age, which one thought only age could give, is already in evidence.

The planning, due to the requirements of the site, is somewhat unusual, but the whole is entirely satisfying. The buildings comprise the Reading Room, sales office, lending library, church offices, and Sunday school hall. For the present, however, the Sunday school hall, some ninety-one feet by thirty feet, has been fitted with a Readers' rostrum, organ platform, and pews, and will serve as the church hall until such time as the main auditorium is erected. An additional ten feet of width has been incorporated in the temporary church hall by the roofing over of what will eventually become a passage leading from Military Road through to the main building. Access to the building is by a geometric flagges path, satisfying in every way. Gothic windows double glazed, to ensure freedom from outside noise, are a feature of the Reading Room.—The Daily.

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