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a subscription was taken up for the purchase of a clock which was placed in the _tower of St. Dunstan's, and which for many years was the only city clock possessed by Charlottetown.

Before the interior of the church was completed a difference of opinion arose between some nembers of the committee of trustees and Mr. Geinsford. which resulted in the resignation of that gentleman.. The trustees decided upon asking an alteration in Mr. Gsinsford's plan, which alteration is best described in Nb. Gainsford's own words. taken from a letter written by him to Bishop NcDonnld on the 8th of May.1855. He writes:-

'The plan proposas to make the ceiling over the gallery sloping to the nave, in the same manner as the ceiling of the galleries must of necessity be. thereby cutting off the intersecting arches over the galleries; making thn front part. next the nave, have a straight line, lengthwise of it. This line would necessarily be at the base of the braces on the pillars. sloping thence upwards to the wall plate and - reducing the height in front of the gallery, eleven or twelve feet lower than the original plan." After the resignation 6’ Mr. Gainsford, the work went on according to what that gentleman cells “the strictly utititerian plan", and the result is the unsightly edifice which does duty in Charlottetown as a pro-cathedral.

For many years everything in connection with the service and appointment of St. Dunstan's were of the very plainest and most simple style. The heating apparatus consisted of two large furnaces made of brick and plastered over; they are said to have had somewhat the appearance of a style of tomb or monument to be seen in English country churches. To feed them. hugh sticks of wood over four feet in length were employed. Their excellence and efficacy may be judged of by the fact that people were in the habit of putting their hate on the top of these furnaces, where they would safely remain during the time occupied by bhss and sermon. The altar

which was subscribed for in lfifh, was built by Mr. Samuel Lhrtin.