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Unfortunately, the day that I heard of these intentions, a faculty 
had been granted for the purpose of carrying them out; and 
this, without any communications having been made to us, the 
patrons of the Living! I have sent a copy of Mr. Scott’s report 
to the Vicar, Mr. Buckston, and, though I am not very sanguine, 
I still hope that something may be done to abate the mischief, 
and to modify the plans. 
Ever most truly yours, 
EDWAR") BICKERSTETH, D.D. 
Arthur Cox, Esq. 
Mr. Oldrid Scott’s report was as follows :— 
Stockport, April 6, 1881. 
Horr CHURCH, SHEFFIELD. 
__ My dear Sir—I have to-day visited the church at Hope as 
requested by the Dean and Chapter. It is of two ages—the 
steeple at the west end, the nave arcades, and the chancel 
arch being Middle Decorated and the remainder of the church 
Perpendicular. 
The style of the chancel as it now appears is wholly of the 15th 
_ century, though it seems to have been built somewhat before the 
other late additions were made. 
It is on a large scale, and is unusually long. In other 
‘respects it is perhaps inferior to the rest of the building, its 
walls being of small and rough stones and the tracery of its 
windows having a look of rudeness, which is, however, by no 
“means devoid of interest. 
The chancel, like the nave, had originally a high pitched 
toof without parapets, but, as far as I can judge, this could 
only have remained for a very short time, for within a few 
years of the erection of the chancel it is clear that the whole 
church was re-cast and given its present late character. A 
clerestory was added to the nave, the aisles were rebuilt, pro- 
ably on a larger scale; flat roofs, covered with lead, were 
substituted for the older ones, and battlemented parapets with 
