Career
An introspective only child, he became an Anglo-Catholic in Brighton whilst still a teenager, becoming interested in not only the medieval church but also the religious life, visiting the Anglican Benedictines at Painsthorpe in 1906 and being profoundly influenced by their abbot, Aelred Carlyle. After attending Lichfield Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1913 at Holy Cross Church in the Street Pancras area. After three other curacies, including the Good Shepherd church, Carshalton, in 1921 he became vicar of Great and Little Walsingham with Street Giles" Houghton.
Within months of arriving, he had a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham modelled on the medieval priory"s seal and placed it in the parish"s main church, Street Mary"son
His bishop opposed the statue and Hope agreed to move it out of the church, using this as a chance to rebuild the Holy House in 1931 (rebuilt in 1938 to accommodate rising pilgrim numbers). On his death he was buried in the churchyard of Street Mary"son
