THE SOUTB DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, JULY 1, 1833. 

 No. 7.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. II. 



THE FEItA]VIBUI.ATOR, No. IV. 



SAINT ANDREW'S CHURCH, PLYMOUTH. 



INTERIOR VIEW, LOOKING WESTWARD. 



It is highly gratifying to notice the general improve- 

 ment which, during the last few years, has taken place 

 in the attention paid to the preservation and decent 

 ornament of our churches. Much more correct notions 

 are beginning to prevail among those who are appoint- 

 ed the legal guardians of those sacred edifices. The 

 passion for whitewash which for so riiany ages had 

 swayed the minds of successive generations of church- 

 wardens has passed away. More clergymen are found 

 alive to the importance of their devoting some portion 

 of their attention to the preservation of those structures 

 which must ever remain (as long as they stand) monu- 

 ments of the piety, taste and skill of our ancestors. 

 A desire to maintain, in seemly order, the fabric and 

 precincts which, with a large portion of the parishion- 

 ers, will always be associated with some of the strongest 

 and most deeply rooted feelings of our nature, is more 

 generally manifested. That is our last home, whatever 

 our previous wanderings may have been — there our 

 kindred are at rest — and there we also look forward, 

 to sleep our long sleep, — till '^ the trumpet shall sound 

 and the dead shall be raised incorruptible." 



Of this praiseworthy attention to the preservation of 

 the venerable sanctuaries of our land, St. Andrew's 

 may be quoted as a striking instance. A strans:er, 

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