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 312 Sloan's Architectural Revieio and Builders Journal. [Nov., Basement Floor. and a Stairway H, which connects with the Audience-room above ; and has also an entrance door from the outside. This completes the Basement floor. On the Main floor, or what may be termed the second story, is the Vesti- bule I, 15 feet wide, containing the land- ing, which is about seven feet wide, and leaves a clear space in the centre be- tween the several stairs the full width of the Vestibule ; and from this point flights of stairs are continued up over the others, leading to the end galleries, that cross the front, having the form of what is called the " Horse-shoe Gal- lery." The Pulpit is marked J on the plan, the Study or Robing-room K, and on the opposite side of the building is the rear, or third stairway. The Audience- room, which includes the whole space contained on this floor, excluding what we have just described, and the Vestibule, is 48 feet wide in the clear and 70 feet long, divided into six blocks of pews, with three aisles, two of which are three feet wide, and the cen- tre one, four feet With this arrange- Matn Floor. ment of pews, five hundred and sixty (560) persons can be comfortabty seated, in addition to one hundred and fiity, for whom there is ample accommodation in the Gallery, making in all 110 as the number to whom the Building will afford sittings, with ample space allotted to each member. The floor of the Audience-room should be so formed, as to descend, to- wards the Pulpit, two inches in every ten feet, or fourteen inches in the entire length of 70 feet. The object of this is, to enable those of the congregation in the rear of the church to see and hear better, as even those whose sense of hearing is acute have more satisfaction from marking the movement of the speaker's lips, while from this alone, the the deaf can often follow the discourse. This slant cannot be given without much loss of space, where there is a basement floor, and must necessarily in such cases be forborne. We propose, at an early day to furnish plates of details of these different plans of churches, both exterior and interior, including corresponding furniture, &c.