NOTES ON ASHBURNE CHURCH. 109 
Oswald, still remains in this aisle, although partially damaged by 
the introduction of an oval monument that had covered and 
injured it with iron cramps. 
As the cills of the south aisle windows were all more or less 
defective, these have been renewed. From the condition in 
which we found them, it appeared as though the rain had beaten 
in and ruined the mortar. Could they have been thus exposed 
to the weather at the time of the Civil Wars? The marks of 
bullets and the dints of cannon balls give an instructive reminder 
of past history as we survey the west end of the Church ; and 
the possession of two cannon balls actually taken out of the 
walls proves that damage more or less serious must have been 
committed. If these windows abounded in ‘superstitious 
images,” no doubt a worthy companion to Will Dowsing would 
be found ready to destroy them. 
I now proceed to describe— 
The south transept, including S. Oswald's Chantry, or as it is 
sometimes called, “ Bradburne’s Quire.” 
The arcade which divides this transept always struck me as 
being incongruous, the arch-molds being poor and debased, 
whilst the columns were good and graceful. On stripping off 
the plaster we soon discovered the reason of this incongruity ; 
the spandrels, or wall spaces between the arches, had - been 
constructed of bricks, with here and there a stone ; but observing 
that some of these stones had been tooled, I directed the work- 
men to cut some out for inspection, and I was rewarded by 
finding them to be the remains of a richly molded arch; in 
some cases the medizval colours remained upon the stone. 
(See section on Plate IX.) It was plain enough that the 
transept had once been in ruins—the pressure of the tower, 
acting upon a building undermined by graves, had pushed 
the columns out of the perpendicular, and in consequence 
the arches had fallen down. From a list of briefs in my 
possession, I gathered that Ashburne Church was under repair 
about the years 1710-20, and the date stamped on the 
leaden piping (1719) confirmed this. An entry in the Register 
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