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 With the complete destruction by fire 
 of Marquand Chapel a year ago last May, 
 the University for the first time in one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five years was left with- 
 out a proper place of worship. Marquand 
 Chapel for over a generation had realized 
 the purpose and hope of its generous donor, 
 Henry G. Marquand. We all cherished a 
 peculiar pride in this familiar place, en- 
 deared by many sacred and stirring memo- 
 ries. The Alumni, in the course of time, 
 forgot their uncomfortable associations with 
 the compulsory attendance upon the Chapel 
 services, and remembered only the sense of 
 comradeship they experienced in the com- 
 pact body of their fellows, assembled for 
 worship, the atmosphere of reverence, the 
 memorials of Princeton's mighty dead, and 
 the promptings of their hearts to realize the 
 high ideals of manhood and service which 
 week after week were urged upon their con- 
 sideration. We who were in Princeton dur- 
 ing the period of the World War, and par- 
 ticularly after the spring of 19 17, will 
 always think of Marquand Chapel as the 
 place where the realities of life and death 
 became startlingly vivid, and worship be- 
 came a sacrament of consecration for our 
 brave youth who left its doors with the 
 sound of martial music and words of the 
 prayer of benediction, lending a sacred 
 fervor to their patriotic resolution to serve 
 the country's great cause, and many of them 
 to die for those principles of justice, honor, 
 and humanity which have ever been Prince- 
 ton's holy heritage. 
 
 All this belongs to a chapter of the past. 
 In the meanwhile, the religious life of the 
 University has been seriously affected by the 
 loss of the old Chapel. We have been com- 
 
 pelled to hold our Sunday morning services 
 in Alexander Hall, a building which was 
 never intended to be a house of worship. 
 All the public functions are held there, con- 
 certs, lectures, mass meetings of our stu- 
 dents, and various entertainments of every 
 sort and description. Consequently, when 
 the undergraduates assemble there on a Sun- 
 day morning, the associations of the place 
 hardly suggest the atmosphere and attitude 
 of worship. 
 
 A new Chapel is therefore an immediate 
 necessity, not merely as a matter of comfort 
 and convenience, but for the purpose of pre- 
 serving the continuity of the religious tradi- 
 tion of Princeton, which had its origin in the 
 faith and hope of the early founders of the 
 College one hundred and seventy-five years 
 ago. 
 
 This book contains the detailed sugges- 
 tions and tentative plans for the new Chapel, 
 and we confidently expect that some gener- 
 ous and devoted friend of Princeton will 
 recognize the need and appreciate the op- 
 portunity of providing for the coming gen- 
 erations of our young men such a place of 
 worship as will prove a constant inspiration 
 to realize in their lives the spiritual as well 
 as the intellectual possibilities of their man- 
 hood. 
 
 W^e purpose that this new Chapel shall 
 be beautiful within and without, the con- 
 summation of Princeton's architectural en- 
 deavor and achievement, so that all who come 
 and go, the casual visitor as well as those 
 who regularly worship there, will Inevitably 
 recognize in this building the symbol of the 
 beauty of holiness. It is to be adapted to 
 all our needs, with ample provision for the 
 large congregation of Sunday mornings, and 
 
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*alsb"there"'will be planned an appropriate 
 place, a Chapel within the larger Chapel, for 
 our week-day service of prayer. 
 
 It is to be situated at the centre of our 
 campus life, forming one of the sides of 
 the McCosh quadrangle, its very location 
 itself a symbol of the place of religion in 
 the great task of preparing man adequately 
 for his life and work in the world. 
 
 The thoughts and feelings of youth are 
 peculiarly sensitive to their surroundings. 
 
 and a new meaning will be imparted to their 
 interpretation of the things unseen and 
 eternal as they come by daily association to 
 recognize the new Princeton Chapel as the 
 University's protest against the materialistic 
 philosophy and drift of our age. the symbol 
 of the higher aspirations of man, a refuge 
 for quiet thought and contemplation, "a 
 house of ancient mystery," the holy place of 
 God. 
 
 John Grier Hibben 
 
 Pan of Cijapel 
 
tCfje Ctapel aintenor 
 
VL\^t architects* ©efifcdption of tfje JSesiignsi 
 
 A HE designs for the proposed Chapel 
 must be considered as in a sense tentative, 
 in that they are held subject to that further 
 study and revision which must always take 
 place in the final development of the work- 
 ing plans for any scheme of such magnitude 
 and significance. Furthermore, the interests 
 that assemble around the project are so 
 multitudinous in number and so keen in their 
 personality that they must, of necessity, 
 have their influence on the final result. An 
 undertaking such as this is one greater than 
 the capacities of any architect, and the build- 
 ing itself must represent the enthusiastic 
 cooperation of those poignant interests which 
 are involved. 
 
 The design indicates both a definite prin- 
 ciple and the present conviction of the archi- 
 tects as to the general form in which these 
 should be expressed, and it is hoped that 
 the designs will be considered in this sense. 
 It is hardly necessary to say that the 
 Chapel for Princeton University should 
 gather up, epitomize, and, in a sense, glorify 
 the whole architectural quality of the Uni- 
 versity, which, developed at many hands 
 during the past twenty years, has given it 
 an unique position amongst American in- 
 stitutions of higher learning, and that in 
 doing so, it should play the same part with 
 regard to the University itself. If there is 
 a Chapel at all, it must be in spirit and in 
 form all that is possible at the hands of the 
 architects and the University. In other 
 words, it must be, in so far as this is attain- 
 able, a great and lasting example of religious 
 art, linked with the highest standards of 
 secular education. It cannot be a bare and 
 mechanistic auditorium, it must unite itself 
 with all the great traditions of Christian 
 architecture and yet adapt itself to the 
 changed conditions of the world. This 
 means the striking of some workable bal- 
 ance between archeology and creative art; 
 a task of enormous magnitude, and one 
 which can be successfully accomplished only 
 
 through the intimate cooperation of all those 
 who are interested in the work. 
 
 Very fortunately there exist in England 
 and elsewhere many examples of the most 
 consummate type of ecclesiastical architec- 
 ture associated with an University. The 
 college chapels of Oxford and Cambridge 
 are amongst the greatest products of Chris- 
 tian art. The designs for the proposed 
 Princeton Chapel follow closely these lines 
 already established, yet they are in no re- 
 spect either copies of any existing chapel or 
 a synthesis of many. The plan is the tradi- 
 tional plan of the college chapel, as this 
 worked itself out to its culmination in the 
 great Chapel of King's College, Cambridge : 
 that is to say, a long, lofty, and compara- 
 tively narrow area in which are assembled 
 all the seats for clergy, faculty, and students; 
 a plan without transepts or aisles in the 
 sense in which these are found in cathedrals 
 and parish churches. Naturally this form 
 gives the best practical results, both in point 
 of seeing and hearing. This would neces- 
 sarily be the case, since the great churches 
 of the Middle Ages were conceived and con- 
 structed with particular reference to great 
 preaching services. 
 
 The nave of Princeton Chapel has a 
 width between the columns of 40 feet, and 
 a total width of 58 feet. Its interior length 
 from wall to wall is 270 feet. Its height 
 from the pavement to the crown of the vault 
 is 76 feet. This is just about the width and 
 height of King's College Chapel, Cam- 
 bridge, while the length is only about 20 feet 
 less. The Chapel would then stand as the 
 second largest college chapel in the world. 
 
 Unlike other college chapels, this has been 
 given narrow aisles without seats and used 
 primarily as ambulatories. These are pierced 
 through the base of the buttresses that sup- 
 port the vaulting, and they open at the 
 eastern end into small pseudo-transepts on 
 either side the entrance to the choir or day 
 chapel, the latter having no aisles. 
 
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While the Chapel itself extends in un- 
 broken length and unchanged width from 
 end to end, the easterly third is set off from 
 the main body by an open screen, the inten- 
 tion being that this easterly third, or day 
 chapel, should be used for the daily services, 
 seating normally 170 persons in stalls ar- 
 ranged choir fashion. This seating capacity 
 could be doubled, should the necessity arise, 
 by the placing of chairs in the wide, open 
 area between the two files of stalls. This 
 day chapel would have its own pulpit, and a 
 comparatively small number of students 
 assembled here would not have the effect of 
 being lost, as would the same number dis- 
 tributed casually throughout the entire 
 Chapel. On those occasions when the whole 
 faculty and student body would be present, 
 the faculty would occupy the rear row of 
 stalls which surround the choir on three 
 sides, while the other seats would be used by 
 choristers, and possibly by the members of 
 the senior class. The great body of stu- 
 dents would occupy the main portion, or 
 nave. 
 
 Alongside the choir, on the south, are ar- 
 ranged the necessary vestries, connecting 
 both with the choir and the main body of 
 the Chapel, while a broad stairway descends 
 to the crypt under the choir which, owing to 
 the fall in the ground, will be adequately 
 lighted. This crypt could be used for many 
 kinds of religious conferences and other 
 meetings, and also as a place of assembly 
 for the student body in preparation for aca- 
 demic processions. 
 
 The pseudo-transepts, already referred to, 
 provide on an upper level for the great 
 organ, divided in halves so that it can be 
 played antiphonally, while there would also 
 be a third organ at the westerly end in the 
 large gallery over the vestibule. It is be- 
 lieved that these transeptal organs are best 
 placed for effectiveness in all services. 
 
 In its exterior design the Chapel is con- 
 spicuously this, and in no respect a cathedral 
 or a parish church. It has no tower, and the 
 pseudo-transepts, being only one bay in 
 
 width, do not break the continuity of the 
 lateral walls, which are divided into thirteen 
 bays, 22 feet on centres. Every effort has 
 been made to obtain an effect of dignity and 
 impressiveness through grandeur of mass and 
 simplicity of form. The architectural style 
 is based on that of the 14th century in Eng- 
 land, a style generally accepted as represent- 
 ing the highest point achieved by Christian 
 architecture in Great Britain. There are, 
 of course, many modifications and variants 
 from any existing types, and the building 
 does not conform closely to any established 
 model, though it has in parts a certain rela- 
 tionship to Carlisle and the little known but 
 exquisite fragment of Guisborough. 
 
 The interior bears a certain resemblance 
 to Exeter, which is generally accepted as the 
 most beautiful interior in England. The 
 "order" consists of a main arcade 34 feet to 
 the apex of the arches, with large, traceried 
 windows above the vault, and between, a 
 triforium with a passage through the thick- 
 ness of the walls. The vaulting is, like 
 Exeter, of the "lierne" type, perhaps the 
 most beautiful ever devised, but the vaulting 
 shafts are brought down and firmly 
 grounded at the pavement after the French 
 fashion. In the choir the windows are of 
 much greater height than in the nave, 46 
 feet in the clear from sill to apex, and 
 divided into four sections by slender verti- 
 cal mullions. The great east window is 20 
 feet wide and 39 feet from the sill to the 
 apex of the arch, while the west window is 
 of the same width but somewhat shorter. 
 
 The architects call attention at this point 
 to the great opportunities that are offered 
 for class memorials by the many mullioned 
 windows afforded by the design. The 
 scheme for all this glass should be deter- 
 mined in advance in order that it may give a 
 consistent showing of the Christian religion 
 and its workings amongst all men and in all 
 generations. The style should be based on 
 that of the 14th century glass of England, 
 e.g., that in the nave of York Cathedral. 
 Many other opportunities are afforded by the 
 
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walls under the aisle windows, and it is to be 
 hoped that the whole Chapel will become in 
 time a living record of great deeds and great 
 personalities connected with the University. 
 
 The matter of material has not been 
 determined. Stone would be employed 
 throughout both the exterior and the interior, 
 and the vaulting would, of course, be of 
 masonry construction; indeed no imitation 
 or substitute of any kind should be permitted 
 in the construction of the Chapel. 
 
 The plans provide for 170 seats in the 
 choir, 1,260 on the floor of the nave, and 
 170 in the west gallery, giving a total of 
 1,600. As a matter of fact there is space 
 for additional seats in the side aisles, and 
 also in the triforium, and when the Chapel 
 is filled "to capacity" it will hold well over 
 2,000 persons. 
 
 A word may be offered here with regard 
 to the site. This, as is indicated by the 
 illustration, is unquestionably the best avail- 
 able, or even imaginable, and this is true 
 both from an architectural and practical 
 standpoint. The Chapel will be most cen- 
 trally placed, closely associated with the site 
 of the old Marquand Chapel. It will com- 
 plete the great quadrangle which has already 
 been begun by McCosh Hall, the Corpus 
 Dial coming in the exact centre of the com- 
 pleted quadrangle. While well removed 
 from the noise of Nassau Street, the Chapel 
 will lift imposingly above the trees, and will 
 be quite visible from this point, while from 
 the centre of the campus, the west front will 
 show clear, to the south of the Library, and 
 from as far away as Whig and Clio halls. 
 
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