NOTES ON HOPE CHURCH. 85 
To the Editor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 
THE “ RESTORATION ” OF Hopr CHuRCH. 
Sir,—A copy of your paper of the oth inst. was recently 
forwarded to me containing the valuable letters of Messrs. 
Bagshawe and Addy, on the projected treatment of the churches 
of Eyam and Hope. My friend, Mr. Addy, therein made an 
appeal to me to give some public expression of my opinion. I do 
not know that anything I can say will have any special weight, 
but as one who spent the better part of eight years in gathering 
together historical and other notes respecting the ancient churches 
of Derbyshire, I claim your indulgence for a brief expression of 
opinion. Other engagements have prevented me writing before, 
but I have privately done what little I could to check any hasty 
treatment of Hope Church. 
I regard the chancel of Hope Church as by far the most 
interesting unrestored chancel in the whole of Derbyshire, and 
_when, therefore, I heard from a clergyman, far more competent 
on questions of ecclesiology than anyone else in the county, of the 
proposed wholesale alterations, I at once ventured to put myself 
in communication with the patrons of Hope, the Dean and 
Chapter of Lichfield. The hon. secretary of the Derbyshire 
Archeological Society had already, I believe, received several 
‘protests from different sources. An unofficial letter from the 
patrons was at once despatched to the Vicar of Hope, and the 
matter was brought formally before the Chapter at their next 
Meeting. Most unfortunately the faculty for the destruction of 
the chancel had been granted by the Chancellor on the previous 
Monday. In some other dioceses it is, I understand, the practice 
always acquaint patrons with any application for a faculty ; and 
[ believe that one good result of the stir that is being made about 
ope will be to bring about such a habit at the Lichfield Court. 
As it was, a faculty was granted without any cognisance on the 
part of the Dean and Chapter, and this precludes them from any 
ormal and technical opposition. 
_ The report of Mr. John Oldrid Scott, made at the request of 
the Chapter, as well as the report of the Derbyshire Archeological 
