The Ecclesiologist (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 39 NOTICES. We have received a letter from an influential member of the Oxford Architectural Society on some remarks which we felt it our duty to offer in our two last numbers. We will notice his observations in order. He objects to a statement of a correspondent (p. 233 of our last volume, ) that the proposed restoration of the east window of the Abbey church of SS. Peter and Paul, Dorchester, is in all probability incorrect; inasmuch as the great circle in its head should be, in his judgment, left blank. It is allowed by our present correspondent that no remains of tracery are now to be seen; and that, at all events, Mr. Cranstoun's design is far too elaborate. He urges, however, the authority of Mr. Ferrey and of Mr. Addington, in favour of the views entertained by the Committee of Restoration. We did not, and we do not, wish to express any opinion on the subject;?at the same time we must fairly own that we are not satisfied. We are glad to hear that the other points to which we objected are faults of the engraving, which appears to be very incorrect. We are glad to have an opportunity of calling attention to the conclusion of our correspondent's statement. " Our funds are miserably inadequate; which is the more to be deplored, as this deficiency is our only obstacle, every facility being given, and every mark of zeal shown by the Incumbent, the Churchwardens, and the inhabitants generally; though of course from a very slenderly endowed living,"?its income is stated in the Liber Ecclesiasticus at 100, ?" and a poor agricultural parish, where too the chief proprietor is a member of another communion, but little can be expected in the way of pecuniary contributions." With respect to our criticism of S. Mark's, Great Wyrley, when we spoke of the bell gable as at the e...