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of the arch. It would be a thousand pities to touch the carving with modern 
paint. It is painted with the inimitable art and colour of the great master, 
Time. But the chapel needs colour and enrichment. And if the spaces 
between the ribs were tastefully decorated, the stone carving would appear to 
greater advantage. One word to suggest a scheme. Behind the altar isa 
reredos, representing the Crucifixion ; in the central window, the Ascension ; 
in the central space of the roof, Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the four 
living Creatures, the Angels, and the Saints after whom the chapel is named. 
Between the arch and the ribs of the roof is a semi-circle, which surrounds 
and frames the vaulted roof. This is the ‘‘rainbow round about the throne in 
sight like unto an emerald,” and it is composed of created things. In the 
summit the ranks of the angels, then the sun, moon, and stars, the clouds, 
lightnings, and storms, then the birds, then the beasts, the trees, the flowers, 
the water, and the fish. 
It only remains for me to call your attention to the grotesque heads that 
surround the Chapel immediately beneath the roofs, and also to the very 
beautiful string course of carved foliage that girdles the apse immediately 
below the three exquisite little narrow windows. The Chapel has not been 
re-consecrated. It was reconciled by the prerent Lord Bishop of Lichfield on 
the 2nd of November, 1880. As we moved in procession round the outside, 
we intoned the same psalm which was used by Bishop Hackett when he 
reconciled Lichfield Cathedral after its desecration by the Puritans. If the 
spirits of the departed are able to understand what their descendants do on 
earth, then I think that Gley de Breton, and Matilda de Vavasour, and 
William de Mykall, and Anker Frecheville, and John de Bristowe, and Has- 
cuil Musard, must rejoice to see the little shrine they loved saved from dese- 
cration and decay, filled with youug men and maidens, old men and children, 
praising the name of the Lord, and professing the same creed, in the faith of 
which they lived and died. 
The party drove on to Welbeck Abbey, and, by special per- 
mission of the Duke of Portland, lunched in the riding school, 
after which they were conducted, in sections, over the gardens, 
stables; and cow-sheds, the glass gallop, the underground rooms 
and corridors, the rosery, kitchens, and Gothic hall. Tea having 
been taken-in the riding school, the return journey was made 
through the park, past the “ Greendale Oak,” and through the 
Duke of Portland’s private drives, past ‘‘ Robin Hood’s Larder 
Oak,” and the water meadows, to Mansfield, whence the special 
train conveyed the party back to Derby. 
The second expedition of the Society was held on the 4th of 
