A History of the Gothic Revival : An Attempt to Show How the Taste for Mediæval Architecture, Which Lingered in England During the Two Last Centuries, Has Since Been Encouraged And Developed
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No one who attends church at all, and still less the churchwardens, on whom the care of the sacred building itself should devolve, can venture to dispute the proposition that it is as much the duty of a parish to preserve its church in decent condition as it is the duty of the civic authorities to keep a town hall in good order, or of a house- holder to maintain the stability and cleanliness of his dwelling. Yet it was a patent fact thirty years ago that many a church, both in town 198 Ncales '... Hints to Churchwardens. 1 and country, had fallen into shameful and even dangerous neglect.
This was the first point to which Mr. Neale drew urgent attention.
Why, he asked, while private houses were kept clean and comfortable, should the House of God be suffered to decay or be patched up in a manner which would disgrace the poorest cottage whose inmates could afford its repair ? With what conscience could the country squire leave his spruce and well-appointed mansion to attend Divine service in a building where the windows were broken or boarded over, the walls mouldy with damp, the rotting roof rudely plastered out of sight, the floor ill-paved, the ancient decorative features replaced by the meanest substitutes ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
No one who attends church at all, and still less the churchwardens, on whom the care of the sacred building itself should devolve, can venture to dispute the proposition that it is as much the duty of a parish to preserve its church in decent condition as it is the duty of the civic authorities to keep a town hall in good order, or of a house- holder to maintain the stability and cleanliness of his dwelling. Yet it was a patent fact thirty years ago that many a church, both in town 198 Ncales '... Hints to Churchwardens. 1 and country, had fallen into shameful and even dangerous neglect.
This was the first point to which Mr. Neale drew urgent attention.
Why, he asked, while private houses were kept clean and comfortable, should the House of God be suffered to decay or be patched up in a manner which would disgrace the poorest cottage whose inmates could afford its repair ? With what conscience could the country squire leave his spruce and well-appointed mansion to attend Divine service in a building where the windows were broken or boarded over, the walls mouldy with damp, the rotting roof rudely plastered out of sight, the floor ill-paved, the ancient decorative features replaced by the meanest substitutes ?
What to read after A History of the Gothic Revival : An Attempt to Show How the Taste for Mediæval Architecture, Which Lingered in England During the Two Last Centuries, Has Since Been Encouraged And Developed?
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