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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Were we to believe the general run of antiquaries, the interior of every old building invariably glowed with the richest gold and colour, and every village church was a Sainte Ohapelle, or a St. Stephen's, Westminster. Few, however, appear to have thought of supporting their theory by carefully taking off the whitewash of some of our smaller churches, on the chance of finding a rich polychromy underneath. Of late years the mania for church-restoration has been performing this office, and the old painters are found to have been no less consistent in their profession than were the old architects.
page 432 note a A fair series of paintings of the Perpendicular period, from the chapel of the Holy Trinity in the church at Stratford-on-Avon, has been published by Thomas Fisher.
page 432 note b In some cases the churchwardens insist either on the restoration or the demolition of the paintings; here I think we can hardly quarrel with the restoration, however much we may disapprove of it as Archæaeologists.
page 433 note a The internal dressings and the surface of rubble walling were on the same face, or nearly so.
page 434 note a See Ecclesiologist, No. cxix. p. 91.
page 438 note a A communication on these paintings by Mr. Buckler was read before the Oxford Architectural Society, and has been printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, June 1860, p. 547.