This pencil drawing by Franklin Carmichael, titled Church, Newtonbrook, is a crisp architectural study of the Newtonbrook Methodist Church in what is now North York, Toronto. Carmichael renders the building with his characteristic precision and sensitivity to proportion, using clean, confident graphite lines to map the structure’s essential form.

The church is shown in a three-quarter view, allowing the long nave and its series of pointed-arch Gothic windows to unfold rhythmically across the composition. Carmichael captures the steeply pitched roof, the small chimney stacks, and the detailed front gable, which features a lightly drawn rose window. The entrance porch to the right projects subtly forward, while a lower attached building with steps and railing sits to the left, grounding the scene in its local architectural context.

Handwritten notes such as “Smaller” and “longer for height” appear directly on the drawing, revealing Carmichael’s working process as he adjusted dimensions and refined the building’s silhouette. The upper portion of the sheet carries the carefully articulated rooflines and structural cues, while the lower half remains intentionally open, giving the drawing a sense of spaciousness and focus.

Titled by Carmichael in the lower right, the sketch reflects his disciplined draftsmanship and his interest in Ontario’s rural and suburban churches—capturing the Newtonbrook Methodist Church with clarity, restraint, and an architect’s eye for proportion.