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The tomb and brasses of Sir Sampson Meverill, in the centre 
of chancel, with emaciated stone figure underneath. 1462. 
In the south transept chapel, the fine tomb and recumbent 
figures of Sir Thurstan de Bower and the Lady Margaret his wife, 
were restored in 1873, by the late John Bower Brown, Esq., of 
Woodthorpe Hall, Sheffield. The figures of Sir Thurstan de 
Bower and his wife were removed into a corner of the chancel 
from their present position (which is their original position), in the 
changes which took place at the re-pewing of the church in 1825-6. 
The Lytton Chapel, in the south transept, contains a slab with 
brasses of Sir Robert and Lady Isabella Lytton, date 1458. The 
present Lord Lytton takes his title from this family. Lytton, now 
usually spelt Litton, is a hamlet and township in Tideswell parish. 
The shields on the Lytton brass disappeared, it would seem, many 
years ago. 
The monuments on the walls retain their places without much 
change. Bishop Pursglove’s brass had been raised on rubble 
limestone some inches from the ground, probably by some grate- 
ful recipient of learning in the Grammar School founded by him. 
It is now lowered to its original position. 
VII. ANCIENT ARRANGEMENTS OF THE CHURCH. 
These are indicated by the position of the various piscine, 
sedilia, and steps in the flooring, and by some marks on the walls 
where the old screens were inserted. 
VIII. THe Putpit. 
No traces remain. It was probably moveable. The old loft 
at the chancel screen may have been used for preaching, but this 
is mere supposition. A wooden pulpit, with sounding board, 
stood at the pillar nearest the north transept at the beginning of 
this century. ‘The present stone pulpit is entirely new. 
IX THE NICHEs. 
The church contains two old niches outside, in the buttresses 
of the south transept (not unlike some to be seen at Linlithgow), 
and two in the modern bell turret lately erected over the chancel 
