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lated or defective parts. The Church at Ranby, Lin- 
colnshire, has been recently much improved by the insertion 
of Norman windows. The Early English Church, at Eynes- 
ford, in Kent, has been rendered perfect by the restoration 
of the chancel windows, and still further by the insertion 
of painted glass, chronologically correct in design. Little- 
borough Church, Notts, has also been partially restored. 
The Old Chapel at Flixborough, Lincolnshire, has had a 
doorway inserted, of character corresponding with the period 
of its erection : and several churches in the Isle of Wight 
have received judicious improvements and restorations. 
I might instance many other churches which are at this 
time being restored to their original beauty, by the inser- 
tion of windows, doorways, &c., and in some cases by the 
removal of the inserted perpendicular tracery from Norman 
and early English windows. In such cases, the surveillance 
of an architect, however desirable, is not absolutely neces- 
sary ; but I am persuaded (judging from my own feelings), 
no architect of the Gothic school would feel otherwise than 
delighted in affording his advice and opinion without charge, 
when the required restoration is trifling ; or with the mere 
payment of travelling expenses, when a personal visit may 
become necessary. A hint from a practical architect may 
save much — a suggestion from the mere amateur may mis- 
lead, and will generally be attended with unnecessary out- 
lay. No professional man will withhold his aid in the attempt 
to stem the torrent of innovation and bad taste which has 
already in too many instances swept away from our parish 
churches every vestige of by-gone days : the rubble walls, 
the storied brass, and the parish register being all that 
remains to bespeak connection with the past ! 
But how frequently is the font, used for the sacrament 
of baptism, thrown aside as lumber among the rubbish in 
the tower, as at Halstead Church, Essex, (a beautiful spcci- 
