Listers, Hope everyone is having a wonderful season. I came across this fascinating note whilst doing other research on Cornell University's Making of America site, which has digital, searchable images of historic journals, monographs, and civil war documents. The home page is at http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/ They have digitized a lot of early magazines there, and this item came from The Living Age, 14 Dec 1844, Vol 3, Issue 31, page 419: Iron Church. -- A church has been sent out to Jamaica, as a specimen, as many of the kind are likely to be required. The pilaster supports are of cast iron, on which are fixed the frame roof of wrought iron, of an ingenious construction, combining great strength with simplicity of arrangement; the whole is covered with corrugated iron, and the ceiling formed of panelled compartments, covered with felt, to act as a nonconductor of heat. The body of the church is 65 feet by 40; the chancel, 24 by 12; a robing room and vestry are attached. The windows are glazed with plate glass, one eight of an inch in thickness; the two chancel windows and four others are of stained glass. The cost of this iron church is 1,000l -- Glasgow Chronicle. Thought someone with an interest in Jamaica might recognize the edifice. Happy new year to everyone, Laura