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Notes on the Restoration of Ashbhburne 
Church, Derbyshive. 188121882. 
By THE Rev. FRANciIs JouRDAIN, M.A., Vicar. 
EVISHBURNE Church has been frequently noticed by 
a] travellers through Derbyshire—the well-known road,* 
| which formed the chief medium of communication 
= Derby and the north of the county passes through 
_ Ashburne, and the Church, with its magnificent spire, would 
naturally command attention from the ecclesiologist. In this 
respect, Derby is a somewhat disappointing place, compared with 
many of our county towns. Ray, who travelled through Derbyshire 
in 1658, writes thus on August 18th: **Derby is a large town, but 
meanly built; there have been in it five churches, but some of 
them are decayed and ready to drop down ;” but on August roth 
he writes : “I got to Ashburne, where there is a very fair church, 
built cathedral-wise.” 
* «© So, down thy hill, romantic Ashburne, glides 
The Derby Dilly, carrying six insides.” 
Attention was invited to the beauty of its surroundings in the 
18th century, by a correspondent of the Gentlemen's Magazine, 
and a sketch of the Church appeared in that venerable publication ; 
also in the Zurofean Magazine for 1792. During the present 
century, in addition to the ordinary guide books, we have the 
enterprising “story of Ashburne, published more than forty years 
_ ago, by Dawson and Hobson, which describes the Church, and 
supplies us with two interesting engravings, one of the exterior, 
