The repairing has been done by a body that might,
but does not, dignify itself by the name of a Guild of Masons. A company of local masons has been got together, and assured constant work of this kind. They have become so integrally impregnated with the pleasures of preservation, with the technique of their art and craft, with that sense of historic continuity, that they can be allowed considerable freedom of action ; and do in fact so delight in their labour that they often quite disregard particular hours ; and like smallholders who have a crop of hay to gather, slip back to their artistic work at any hour of a summer evening. I believe that the C.P.R.E. (over and above more direct practical work, which grows both in bulk and importance) are considering the more general and philosophic question of instructing young England in the difference between good and bad in the sphere of visual beauty. Here, as they realize, is a suggestive example to their hand.
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