1911 – Design for St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

“The estimated total cost of the St. Andrew’s Church is $100,000. The style of architecture is Gothic. The main building will occupy a space of 125 ft. by 80 ft., and the annex, 50 ft. by 80 ft. The seating capacity on the ground floor is 760 and in the galleries 360, making in all 1,120 seats. The galleries are approached by spacious staircases and the gallery seats are arranged or grouped in three bays, which are approached through trifonum galleries. The annex consists of a Sunday School, on the same floor as the ground floor of the church proper, recessed into one side, and which, when not required, can be entirely shut off by revolving or roller partitions. The Sunday School provides accommodation for sixteen classes, eight on the ground floor and eight on the upper floor, so arranged that the superintendent can address all the occupants.

In the basement the following accommodation is provided: banquet hall (to scat 660 persons), containing stage and two dressing rooms and most ample means of access to all its parts ; men’s club room, lavatories, bath room, kitchen, pantry, fuel room, ladies’ parlor, lavatories, bath room, heating and ventilating space, janitor’s quarters with living rooms, bath room, etc.

The building will probably be constructed of red brick with stone dressings and will be one of the finest churches in the province of Saskatchewan. The architects are Messrs. Clemesha & Coltman, of Regina.”
Engineering and Contract Record, October 25, 1911

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