The Antiquary, Vol. 27
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Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 27: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past We are glad to note that the powerful influence of our contemporary the Athenæum has been put forth in the same direction as our own with regard to the wholesale proposals affecting the cathedral church of Lichfield. The following paragraph appeared in the issue of November 26: "A startling appeal for £20,000 is now being made by the Chapter of Lichfield, for what they are pleased to call ´the needful reparation´ of their cathedral church. As this scheme includes the entire renewing of the roofs upon what the architects believe to have been the thirteenth-century lines, while the present roofs are thoroughly sound and excellent of their kind, we are astonished at the audacity of the language which the Chapter have sanctioned. The roofs and other parts of the church that it is now proposed to sweep away are chiefly due to the energy and skill of the great bishop of the Restoration period, Bishop Racket. It is a monstrous thing to try to blot out this page of history as told in the fabric of Lichfield Minster." The Builder of December 10 is also severe and caustic. It is not in our opinion wise that the Society of Antiquaries should put forth its strength save in cases of exceptional necessity, so that its condemnation or suggestions may be all the more weighty. But if ever there was a case in which remonstrance was loudly called for, it is in connection with the Lichfield Cathedral works. It is, then, with much pleasure that we learn that the following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Society of Antiquaries at their meeting at Burlington House on December 1, on the motion of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., seconded by Sir J. C. Robinson: "The Society of Antiquaries hears with great regret that considerable portions of the cathedral church of Lichfield, the work of Bishop Hacket after the sieges of the Great Rebellion, though substantial and well-looking, have been replaced by modern imitations of supposed thirteenth-century work, thereby destroying the traces of one of the most remarkable epochs in the history of the Church of England. The Society is also informed that further destruction of good seventeenth-century work is in contemplation, and ventures to earnestly urge the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield not to permit any such destruction to take place." To this it may be added that Lichfield is the only one of our great cathedral churches that underwent thorough and extensive rebuilding and repairs at the time of the Restoration. The Dean has replied by a curt denial of the statements, but the truth of the charges in the resolution can be proved to the hilt. Would that we could conjure up in the old diocese of Lichfield some reverence for the memory of great Bishop Racket, who deservedly obtained the title of "the second founder of the cathedral." His own self-denial and extraordinary influence with others brought about a remarkably rapid and wonderfully effective restoration of the minster, when it had been entirely unroofed and much ruinated by the successive sieges of both Royalists and Parliamentarians. Bishop Hacket was by far the most remarkable prelate that the Church of England produced in the last half of the seventeenth century - in fact, we doubt if he was not the best all-round of the whole century. His life, which is of wonderful interest, has never yet been properly written. His munificence was great towards his own university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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