The life and letters of Frederic Shields . rom the moment the site was was barred, writes Mr. Home, by a specialAct of Parliament, a Rector, Churchwardens, a Vestry,and a Burial Board, also if I remember rightly, a Dukeand his interests came in, some way or another. Thelegal difficulties at one time made it apparently impos-sible to pull down any of the old decaying walls, theEcclesiastical Commissioners, Burial Boards, Vestries,Consistories, Faculties, Court of Arches, Vicars, Bishops,all these authorities seemed to the distracted artist to bein league to delay the commence
The life and letters of Frederic Shields . rom the moment the site was was barred, writes Mr. Home, by a specialAct of Parliament, a Rector, Churchwardens, a Vestry,and a Burial Board, also if I remember rightly, a Dukeand his interests came in, some way or another. Thelegal difficulties at one time made it apparently impos-sible to pull down any of the old decaying walls, theEcclesiastical Commissioners, Burial Boards, Vestries,Consistories, Faculties, Court of Arches, Vicars, Bishops,all these authorities seemed to the distracted artist to bein league to delay the commencement of his great the matter was put into the hands of a skilledecclesiastical lawyer, who succeeded in reconciling thevarious interests which barred the way, and carrying thewhole thing through the Court of Arches. And then came all the questions connected withbuilding, into every detail of which, from the stencillingon the rafters of the roof to the marble steps, Mrs. Gurneyentered with the greatest interest and •A en W C hJ IDCJ O < • &. O OS H ^ <f_ CJ CO , p Sz 13 o C/3 £ w Q en THE CHAPEL OF THE ASCENSION 307 Shields, writing to Mr. Home in December, says:— Ever since we met on Saturday, I have been brew-ing and stewing, and taking into the scales afresh all yousaid. I have an awe of missing the mark in this momen-tous matter, and a most earnest wish that no incertitudeof purpose on my part shall stumble you, or confuse you,in a task of which I more and more discern the difficulty,and to this end there is a foundation principle which Idesire to lay firmly down— that the paintings are notfor the building, but the building for the paintings. ThatI am not to be cramped into the bed, but the bed madeto my measure, with room to stretch myself a little. Thiswas why I endeavoured to begin at the end, to see beforeme, and to formulate a settled plan of the division of thewall into three main quantities or tiers. 1. The lowest to be of
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