American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

IRON CHURCH.

The following is extracted from the Christian Observer for April, 1823. We had not before known that such large portions of Churches had been built of iron.

"St. George's Church is an object of considerable architectural interest for its taste, and as having been nearly the first cast iron church erected in the kingdom. The whole of the frame-work of the windows, doors, pillars, groins, roof and pulpit, and ornamental enrichments, are of cast iron. The length of the church is 119 feet; the breadth 47. It is ornamented with a splendid cast window of stained glass. The tower, raised to the height of 96 feet, and standing on a hill, the site of an ancient sea beacon, is elevated 45 feet above high water mark, and commands one of the finest views in the kingdom, comprehending the town and shipping of Liverpool, the estuary of the Mersey, the level surface of Lancashire, as far as the eye can trace the prospect, with the craggy hills of Wales towards the west, and towards the northeast the distant mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland. The contemplative Christian, viewing so many of our churches thus characteristically situated, will be inclined to see in them an apt emblem of what the ministers of Christ themselves should ever be "guides and way-marks in the path to bliss;" or in still more authoritative language, "cities set upon a hill which cannot be hid."