RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. 15! 
SATURDAY. 
“* Again I hear 
These waters, rolling from their mountain springs 
With a soft inland murmur.—Once again 
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, 
That in a wild seciuded scene impress 
Thought of more deep seclusion ; and connect 
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.” 
In the morning we got up soon after six o'clock, ove at a time, so 
as to have room to wash. We were provided with a -good 
breakfast, and with many thanks from our host, and further 
apologies and promises of better accommodation should we ever 
honour him again with a visit, we commenced our last day’s 
work. 
Tideswell, a small market-town with a large parish and a fine 
church, is a place of considerable antiquity, and takes its name 
from an ebbing and flowing well which once existed here. It 
boasts of a Free Grammar School, founded in the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth ; but the chief glory of Tideswell is its church, which 
is of the decorated order of Gothic architecture, though the 
tower with its somewhat heavy pinnacles appears of a later date. 
The interior is very spacious and light, having large windows, all 
void of stained glass, the introduction of which would add much 
to the beauty of the building—there are nine great windows in the 
chancel alone. This church is cruciform, and I noticed that the 
pillars of the transepts were out of the perpendicular from the 
unequal pressure of the different arches supported by them. The 
wood-work of the chancel roof is particularly beautiful, and the 
numerous tombs which occupy this part of the church furnish 
interesting subjects for the antiquary. There is one to Bishop 
Pursglove, who founded the Grammar School and Hospital here, 
which has a particularly fine brass, the most notable one in the 
county, I believe. There is a brass in another part of the church 
