122 NOTES ON TIDESWELL CHURCH. 
been thought that the carved work now erected (temporarily or. 
permanently) over the place anciently occupied by the Lady 
Chapel screen formed part of the original rood loft of the 
chancel. In this opinion I cannot concur. I should rather be 
inclined to assign it to the position which it now occupies, or 
to a similar position over the south transept. I found it used in 
two portions, adapted as book-boards to the ten old stalls in the 
chancel, five on each side, now removed, as you see them, 
to the Lady Chapel in the north transept. A portion of the old 
tracery-work, evidently belonging to some screen in this church, 
I have taken care to preserve in the middle compartment of the 
altar table in the chancel. The two pieces of carving on each 
side of it did not come from this church. You will, however, 
find two bits of screen-work—open tracery-work of great delicacy 
and beauty, preserved by me in a new oak erection in the Lady 
Chapel. These scraps of screen-work had been preserved ina 
house in Tideswell. 
When the new pewing of the church, in 1825, was undertaken, 
great quantities of carved oak work were, it is said, carted away. 
V. THE SIDE CHAPELS. 
Near thirty years ago a warming apparatus was placed under 
the Lady Chapel, in the insertion of which some indications of 
old wall and of old brasses may have been removed, for the 
flooring of this Guild Chantry would probably contain some marks 
of local history. The two figures now placed here in this north 
transept are said to have belonged originally to the south side— 
the south aisle of the nave, probably—but their history is un- 
known. We have lately placed them in their present position to 
secure them from mutilation. 
VI. THE MONUMENTS. 
These have been often described. 
In the chancel, the Foljambe brass, date 1358. This has been 
renewed. 
The fine brass of Bishop Pursglove. 1579. 
