. Vanishing England . hurch in Knightsbridge was removedand rebuilt on another site. It had a communion cuppresented by Archbishop Laud. Some addition wasrequired for the new church, and it was proposed to sellthe chalice to help in defraying the cost of this London dealer offered 500 guineas for it; happily ithas not left the country, and is now in the Victoria andAlbert Museum. This is only one instance out of manyof the depletion of the Church of its treasures. It mustnot be forgotten that although the vicar and church-wardens are for the time being trustees of the churchplate an
. Vanishing England . hurch in Knightsbridge was removedand rebuilt on another site. It had a communion cuppresented by Archbishop Laud. Some addition wasrequired for the new church, and it was proposed to sellthe chalice to help in defraying the cost of this London dealer offered 500 guineas for it; happily ithas not left the country, and is now in the Victoria andAlbert Museum. This is only one instance out of manyof the depletion of the Church of its treasures. It mustnot be forgotten that although the vicar and church-wardens are for the time being trustees of the churchplate and furniture, yet the property really is vested inthe parishioners. It ought not to be sold without afaculty, and the chancellors of dioceses ought to be ex-tremely careful ere they allow such sales to take learned Chancellor of Exeter very wisely recently 1 Canon F. E. Warren recently reported to the Suffolk Institute ofArchaeology that while he was dining- at a friends house he saw twochalices on the 164 VANISHING ENGLAND refused to allow the rector of Churchstanton to sell achalice of the date 1660 , stating that it was painfullyrepugnant to the feelings of many Churchmen that itshould be possible that a vessel dedicated to the most sacredservice of the Church should figure upon the dinner-tableof a collector. He quoted a case of a chalice which had dis-appeared from a church and been found afterwards with aninscription showing that it had been awarded as a prize atathletic sports. Such desecration is too deplorable for wordssuitable to describe it. If other chancellors took the samefirm stand as Mr. Chadwyck-Healey, of Exeter, we shouldhear less of such alienation of ecclesiastical treasure. Another cause of mutilation and the vanishing ofobjects of interest and beauty is the iconoclasm of visitors,especially of American visitors, who love our Englishshrines so much that they like to chip off bits of statuaryor wood-carving to preserve as mementoes of t
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