NOTES ON HOPE CHURCH. 97 
Of this a very considerable amount of the admirable balance 
of lines and grouping will be destroyed when the proposed 
equalising of the planes of the two roofs is effected; and more 
especially so by the alteration in height of the side buttresses 
intended to be made in the rebuilding. The present old ones 
having been solely considered in connection with me Perpen- 
dicular yvebuilding and its design. 
The chancel roof is formed of four tie beams, one at each 
wall, and the others at points between, corresponding with 
the lines of the added buttresses of the 
same period. These last have plinths of 
their own, quite regardless of the earlier “< 
plinth of a simpler description, which 
remain between them. 
These buttresses are narrow, being only in their lower stage rft. 
6in. wide by a projection of about 2ft. 44in. 
The roof has a moulded wall plate, with purlins 
and ridge-piece and _prin- Wr a also moulded. 
The ends of these tie beams br rest (see above rough 
sketch) on curved braces and ashlars, supported 
on stone corbels, placed about the level of what was the top of 
the early walls. The present finish of wall externally is the above- 
mentioned embattled stone parapet, resting on a simple stone 
String. This has at angles and over each buttress a dwarf 
pinnacle, with crocketed top, of which most, if not all, have been 
