Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire.: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.Croston, James
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Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire.: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.
Croston, James
Cheshire (England); Lancashire (England)
As previously stated, there is another church connected with the
institution, St Peter’s, erected nearly half a century ago, and of much
larger dimensions, being intended for the use of the neighbourhood as
well as that of the inmates of the college. It will accommodate about
1,500 worshippers, and, considering the date of its erection, will bear
favourable comparison with many of the Gothic structures of more recent
years. Painting, carving, and sculpture have been freely employed,
with everything that could add to that architectural effect the love
of which forms so distinguishing a feature of the Roman Church.
The interior, with its spacious nave, its “long drawn” aisles, its
lofty arches, and its elegant oak-panelled roof, has a very imposing
appearance. The high altar has a reredos behind, rich in carving, and
above is a magnificent window divided into five lights with a traceried
head, and subdivided by double transoms into fifteen compartments,
each filled with the image of one of the apostles or saints in stained
glass, while the storied windows of the clerestory “shoot down a
stained and shadowy stream of light.” Within the sanctuary are two
niches occupied with statues of SS. Peter and Paul, and we also noticed
two coloured frescoes, the work of Wurm and Fischer, of Munich, the one
representing Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the order, administering
the communion to his first missionary companions, and the other, St.
Francis Xavier, “the apostle of India and Japan,” who threw around
the society the lustre of poetry in action, and “the mists of the
wonderful, if not the dignity of historic heroism,” preaching to the
Indians, some of whom are represented as breaking their idols in his
presence.
The college chapel, as we have said, is situated near the south-west
angle of the main structure. Occupying very nearly a corresponding
position at the north-west side is the hospital, connected with the
main building by a broad corridor, the walls of which are hung with
portraits and engravings.
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