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accommodates the Sunday scholars, and, though out of keeping 
with the church, and blocking the fine arch into the tower, is 
useful on some special occasions. 
The stall work in the chancel is new, and the fronts of the 
book-boards are open, the carving being remarkably interesting. 
The old chancel screen is now under repair. The roofs of the 
chancel, the transepts, and the larger portion of the nave, have been 
renewed in oak and lead, in even a stronger manner than when 
the church was built. New stall work is ordered for the space 
between the side chapels in the transepts ; and when this is done 
the main features of the restoration will have been firmly fixed. 
The Zevels of the church have been well preserved—an important 
point in all restorations. 
XIV. BisHop PursGLovE, THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, THE 
GuiLtp HAL or TIDESWELL, AND MILLER’s DALE. 
Into the history of Bishop Pursglove I must not now enter. 
Recent investigations at York have proved that he was consecrated 
Suffragan Bishop of Hull in Henry VIII.’s reign, and not, as 
generally supposed, in Queen Mary’s—a point of considerable 
historical value, as throwing light upon the events of his time. 
An investigation into the muniments of the Grammar School 
might possibly make it plain that the old, partly ruinated building 
in the centre of Tideswell was the ancient Guildhall of Tideswell. 
Tradition would point also to the Cross Daggers Inn as having 
been formerly the abode of the female portion of the same guild 
united as a sisterhood. This is the more likely, as no religious 
house existed at Tideswell belonging to any monastery or 
nunnery. 
At Miller’s Dale, it is true, there was a small cell belonging to 
Lenton Priory, near Nottingham. Two carved stones evidently 
belonging to the entrance to the chancel of the old little chapel at 
Miller’s Dale (date about 1360) are now in the Vicarage garden, 
having been brought from Millers Dale. They are almost 
. identical in design with the stone chancel screen at Chelmorton. 
The brass on Bishop Pursglove’s tomb is as perfect as when first 
