The wood lath of the sanctuary's plaster ceiling was hand split immediately before its installation, as evidenced by its irregular but matching edges.

There's more handwork showing on the beams. Adze marks from the hand hewing have left scalloped faces on all of the timbers.

There was more significant work after these photos were taken. I don't know what was done, but would guess that some of the shaky construction of the "new" pediment was improved.

Hand Split