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was my personal experience of a somewhat unnecessary and trouble- 
some correspondence with the executive of one of the societies that 
has figured most prominently in this controversy, owing to the 
society going out of its way to take up a matter that it might very 
well have let alone. 
With regard to restoration here in Bradford, I never was inside 
the Parish Church before its restoration, but I think it must have 
lost in interest, as a consequence of that operation. I remember, 
at any rate, noticing, when I looked over the Church with the late 
Canon Jones, one or more pillars,! introduced at the restoration, of 
what I considered a very objectionable design, viz., with scrolls 
wound round them. It was explained to me that the donor desired 
to have “ Roslin”’ pillars, but that they could very easily be rectified, 
in the future, by removing the scroll. Roslin pillars they are not, 
and, if they were, they would be very much out of place. The 
twisted pillar, at Roslin, has a beauty of its own. These have 
none, and it hardly seems satisfactory to introduce a feature which 
will require to be rectified, in the future, by the removal of what 
was intended to be its ornament. 
_ Considerable care was taken in dealing with the small Saxon 
Church, in the matter of restoration, and I don’t suppose that 
much fault will be found with what was done there. 
I now come to the fine house that was built by one of the Hall 
family, apparently early in the seventeenth century. This house, 
looks particularly well, when seen from below, as from a spot near 
the Barton farm and bridge. I had once the advantage of being 
shown over the house, by the late Mr. Stephen Moulton, to whom 
great credit is due for restoring it, as a dwelling-house, after it had 
fallen to meaner uses. Mr. Moulton pointed out to me one small 
alteration, that he had made, which I thought a mistake, though I 
could not very well tell him so, and I should probably not have 
found it out, if he had not drawn attention to it himself. On one 
of the fireplaces were certain bosses or spherical projections, which 
1 Written before I re-visited the Church, with the Society. The number is two. 
