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Notes on WtVeswell Church, Derbyshire.* 
By THE Rry. PREBENDARY ANDREW, R.D., Vicar. 
}HE paper which, at your request, I now venture to read 
to you must necessarily be short, and in many 
particulars defective. 
I assume that you are acquainted with Mr. Cox’s excellent 
notes upon this church in his valuable work on the Churches of 
Derbyshire—a work which will increase in value every year. 
I. A ForMER CHURCH. 
Of the history of the church which preceded this present build- 
ing we can, I fear, say very little. There are some traces, as I 
_believe, of a former chancel on the eastern side of the present 
chancel arch. The wall at that place has been cleared of its 
coating of plaster at my own request, with some loss, it is true, to 
the appearance, but with some advantage, I think, to archeological 
inyestigations. I must also point out that the cement which now 
covers the walls of the transepts under the string course (except 
on the south side of the south transept) is but a renewal of 
cement or plaster which was originally intended, and was actually 
there when this present church was first built. The plastered 
portions were, I believe, originally decorated with colour. Some 
few remains of colour we detected, but in too small patches to aid 
us further. It is probable that the church which gave place to 
_ this large building was of much smaller proportions. It was at 
first, as you are aware, a chapel under Hope, until it became an 
. * Read before the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History Society 
on their visit to Tideswell Church, August, 1882. 
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