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Rh the erection and completion of the church. Mr James Armstrong was inspector of works under Mr Lawson during the greater part of the time, and performed his important and responsible duties with fidelity and success. "The material used in the construction of the building is chiefly bluestone, principally from the Water of Leith quarries, with Kakanui facings, dressings, and finishings generally. The design of the building is in the thirteenth century style of Gothic, the chief distinctive marks of which are the light, lofty, and graceful arch; the large and lofty arched windows, the lower parts of which are divided into narrow compartments by mullions, and the upper parts or window-heads enriched by complex, varied, and beautiful tracery; and the floriated pinnacles surmounting the buttresses. The new Knox Church is truly a noble ecclesiastical building, and one that is a credit to the architecture of the colony. With its handsomely-proportioned walls of bluestone, relieved by white Kakanui stone facings; its lofty and graceful windows; its dark slate roof relieved by ornamental ridgings; and its high tapering spire pointing heavenwards, the new Knox Church is a building which would be pointed to with pride in many a city in older lands."