Our 58th Competition

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 12, 1 August 1917, Page 1035

Our 58th Competition

We offer a prize of £2 2s. for the design adjudged to be the best for a Presbyterian Church for a small country town in New Zealand. The site is level, facing a main road, and has a depth of five chains and a width of one chain. Space is to be left for a manse in rear of church which is two miles from a wharf and has no railway connection. Size: Total building to come under 60,000 feet cube for estimate cubing. Accommodation: The church itself is to seat 220 persons (exclusive of choir) of which total' there would be no objection to placing 20 to 25 in a gallery. A porch must be arranged for, and a vestibule or lobby as well as the pulpit or rostrum, organ and choir. A class room is required of about 300 feet super; a church vestry of about 180 feet super; and a Minister’s vestry and lavatory of about 135 feet, all arranged en suite. A cleaner’s room or closet of about 4.0 feet is necessary, and a small bell tower or fleche or turret arranged for. General: —The church is to be designed with the view of employing (mostly for economy), materials at hand, and to withstand earthquake shocks. The materials at hand are ballast cement, wood, stone or marble, galvanized or bar iron, and imported roof coverings. The inserted features of whatever material, should be naturally applied and designed to express the true Gothic spirit” of craftsmanship, but with local originality. Drawings Required.—Plan, 2 elevations, 2 sections, (all to sin. scale), and a small sketch view (not necessarily "set up”). The ventilation to be shown. Approximate Estimate and abridged specification or scheduled test of materials proposed. Mr. Frank Peck, F.E.1.8.A., of Nelson has kindly set this subject. Designs must be sent in finished as above, under a nom-de-plume, addressed to Progress, 8 Parish Street, Wellington, and marked clearly “Fifty-eighth Prize Competition” on outside with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by November 21st, 1917. [Note. —For conditions of entry in Progress Competitions see page 1056.]