96 NOTES ON HOPE CHURCH. 
most likely have been spared had not its apex been too high for 
the new gable. Retaining its sill and jambs, which received new 
mullions, tracery, and arch, lowered to the necessities of the new 
design. The side walls were raised by building thereon some 
three feet or so, and a fine embattled parapet added, with 
dwarf pinnacles over the centres of buttresses, which last were 
now built up to the older side walls. 
The roof was kept at a little lower pitch than that of the nave, 
thus rendering the present design most perfect, when considered 
in connection with the spire and dwarfish tower. Indeed a most 
remarkable and excellent example of the ability of the architects 
of the middle ages to produce a beautiful and harmonious whole, 
even when the difficulties to be overcome were very great indeed. 
This, I think, will be the conclusion of everyone who has had the 
good fortune to see the old church—prior to its proposed 
destruction—from the road entering the village of Hope from 
Tideswell. 
