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Notes on the Demolition of the Chancel 
of Hope Church. 
By ARTHUR Cox. 
AIT the request of the Council of the Derbyshire 
# Archeological and Natural History Society, I have 
78.99 “| put together the following notes, respecting what has 
Boca during the past year at Hope, in this county. The 
object in doing this is simply to lay before the members of our 
Society the facts of the case as they occurred. No comment 
from myself is necessary, or, I think, advisable ; when the notes 
have been read, each individual member will be able to form his 
or her opinion as to how far the Society, through its Council and 
Vigilance Committee, was right in the action taken ; and, also, 
as to whether the action so taken, did, or did not produce any 
effect. Any independent person is quite capable of forming an 
opinion as to what was right or wrong in the proposed plan, and 
can, if possessed of any archeological knowledge at all, decide 
upon the merits of the different authorities whose opinions are 
here expressed. 
The first intimation of the proposed “restoration” of the 
Chancel of Hope Church was contained in a letter from the 
Vicar of Hope, the Rev. Henry Buckston, a member of our 
Society. The letter was addressed to myself as hon. sec. to 
the Society, and ran as follows :— 
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