NOTES ON HOPE CHURCH. 87 
At a meeting of the Council on the gth of June, we heard that 
the plan of demolition had been modified—at least to the extent 
of making the new roof flat, and of oak, so that we felt some 
good had been done, and that more might follow. On the rith 
of June, however, I received a letter telling me that the Chancel 
of Hope Church was to be taken down, bodily, on the 16th. 
There was no time to summon the Council, and I felt compelled 
to take some immediate steps. After consultation with the Rev. 
J. Charles Cox, and with the approval of the Dean and Chapter 
of Lichfield, it was arranged for Mr. J. Charles Cox and Mr. 
Irvine to go over to Hope at once, to see what was to be, or 
could be done. Mr. Keene also went over to Hope the same 
day and took the photograph of the church, which appears with 
this account. A fortunate circumstance also was that the Lord 
Bishop of the diocese was at Hope the same day. After his 
visit to Hope, Mr. J. Charles Cox wrote the following letter to 
the D. A. and N. H. Society :— 
THe Last oF Hope CHANCEL. 
To THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF THE D. A. AND N. H. S. 
GENTLEMEN,—Hearing last Friday from the Dean of Lichfield 
that the roof of the old chancel of Hope Church, from which the 
lead had some weeks ago been stripped, was to remain untouched 
until after the 16th inst., and learning also that the accuracy of the 
reports on the chancel, made for the Dean and Chapter by Mr. 
J. O. Scott, and for our Society by Messrs. Robinson and Hope, 
were being challenged and seriously called in question, I com- 
municated with the hon. sec. of the D. A. and N. H. S. on the 
subject, and it seemed to both of us highly desirable that another 
isit should be paid to the chancel before its demolition. now 
t the walls and roof were thoroughly exposed. Messrs. 
obinson and Hope being both absent from home, at the 
suggestion of your hon. sec., and with the approval of other 
mbers of the Society who were consulted at Lichfield, Mr. J. 
[. Irvine was invited to accompany me to Hope. Mr. Irvine, 
ho is a well-known antiquary and writer in archzological 
