Ilo NOTES ON ASHBURNE CHURCH. 
for March 6th, 1716, runs thus :—“ Buried Andrew Barnes, 
Carpenter, who made the new Roof over Bradburne’s 
Quire”; and again on Feb. gth, 1720, “ The south end of 
the Cross-Ile and 7 yards of the steeple was rebuilt in 
yeir (ze. the Churchwardens’) time.” The arcade, then, belongs 
to this period, and we are thankful that the work is as good as 
it is. Considerable damage had been done to the south wall by 
the erection of monuments, and the insertion of the large 
Decorated window in lieu of the lancets which originally lighted 
the transept, had not contributed to its solidity. By restoring 
the Early English shafts, we improve the appearance of the present 
window, and also exhibit the ancient lines of these lancets. 
Here, too, the string courses and hood molding had been — 
shamefully mangled, but we managed to obtain portions of the 
original, and all these have been made perfect. 
During our excavations in the chapel, we came across the 
broken tombstone of one of Ashburne’s worthies, Paul 
Taylor, and of Lydia Taylor, his daughter. These are now 
treasured up in the Cokayne Chapel. A small porcelain figure 
also turned up, which had probably been buried with some child. 
I could not but marvel at the fact which came to light shortly 
afterwards—viz., that the old organ gallery had rested chiefly on a 
lead coffin which, by a perverse exercise of ingenuity, had been 
filled with bricks and used as the foundation fora pillar! In 
the eastern wall there once existed triple lancets, corresponding 
to those yet extant in the north transept; portions of the arches 
and fluted mullions were picked out of the wall, painted with 
black and white colouring in a zig-zag pattern. The east wall 
and late Decorated window have both been practically rebuilt. 
The organ is now drawn further back, in order to leave the 
arch free which communicates with the chancel, and _ being 
raised ona strongly-built platform, gives ample space for a choir 
vestry and sacristy, with safes for registers and sacramental 
vessels underneath. The double piscina has been carefully 
restored, and a stone reredos and side altar, with alabaster slabs 
and panels, invest the sacristy with somewhat of its ancient 
