134 THE OLD- SHAMBLES, CHESTERFIELD. 
on which there had been “curious carving,” and,’ on being 
informed that T. P. Wood, Esq., would be most likely to satisfy 
us on the point, we accordingly communicated our wish to him, 
and he writes, ‘‘I very well recollect the old building in the 
Shambles you refer to; it was pulled down some dozen years ago, 
and a music warehouse built upon the site . . . . . There 
was some nice carved old oak about it, and one of the old town 
wells was under it. It was intended to have had it photographed, 
but the photographer came a day too late.” Mr. Wood referred 
us to S. Rollinson, Esq., the architect who designed the new 
building, and he fortunately had in his possession a rough sketch 
he made of the old house before it was removed, and kindly 
placed in our hands the materials from which Plate IX. has been 
made, and from which a very fair idea of its appearance at that 
time may be gathered ; but it is not of so interesting a character, 
as to its architecture, as are the other three ; nor, from the point 
of view from which the sketches were made, can we perceive any 
appearance of the carved work mentioned by Ford. Possibly this 
may have been on that side of the house hidden from the eye of 
the spectator. We, however, doubt very much whether there ever 
was anything in the shape of ‘‘curious carving,’ unless the 
rude embattled work on the windows may be so designated. It is 
just possible that Ford did take it for “Saxon,” this term being 
at one time used to indicate anything ancient We will now 
proceed to describe, more in detail, the drawings in the three 
plates which are attached to these notes. 
The most interesting and picturesque group of buildings now 
remaining is represented on PI. VII. (fig. 2); part of it is still used 
as a dwelling. There are, in the upper story, two oriel windows ; 
that one nearest to the observer has three lights, the other only 
one light in the centre. Both are ornamented ‘in the same way as 
that of which fig. 1 is a sketch, only that they have no moulding 
at the heads, and that at the base is continued as a string course 
from one to the other, thus forming an agreeable break, or relief, 
to the front of the house. We may remark, in passing, that the 
leaden spouts at the heads of the windows of Mr..Gadsby’s house. 
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