Word: gothically
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...most new churches will look just like the old ones. Says Walter A. Taylor, consultant to the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture: "History and logic to the contrary, the now familiar forms of the Victorian and neo-Gothic have become a tradition-the phrases of architectural language which say 'church...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
...Fosdick held his first service at the skyscraper-Gothic Riverside Church on Oct. 5, 1930. It had cost some $5,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted capacity (2,500) congregations. Millions more heard his Sunday afternoon sermons, broadcast over a national hookup from his 18th-floor tower study. He received 125,000 letters a year from his radio talks alone. Meanwhile, he continued to teach at Union Theological Seminary, continued to turn out popular books (A Guide...
...took two centuries to finish. But most of St. John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided to go Gothic. Today St. John's is Gothic fore & aft, with a great chunk of Romanesque amidships. The odd combination of Gothic's aspiring points and lacy frets with Romanesque's rounded arches is still bedeviling builders...
...west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another, a great (402 ft.) central tower...