152 RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. 
of the Lytton family. The altar-tomb of Sampson Meverell is a 
very strange one; the sides being left open reveal an emaciated 
figure, such as one sees in Holbein’s Dance of Death, wrapped 
in a winding sheet.* 
After seeing the church, there is little else at Tideswell to 
interest the stranger, and I was not very favourably impressed 
with the general appearance of the town; so taking a view of the 
church from the south-east, we wended our way over the hill to 
Wheston, along a narrow Peak road, passing the base of an 
ancient cross on the way. Wheston is about a mile-and-a-half 
from ‘fideswell, and possesses a very beautiful cross, which 
formerly stood on the roadside opposite the Hall, now a farm- 
house. This cross is in the farm-yard. It is of elegant propor- 
tions, rising from three steps ; the shaft is square and _ taper- 
ing, with chamfered corners; on one side is a mutilated 
MONSAL DALE. 
representation of the crucifixion, and on the other the Virgin 
and Child ; the latter we could not get at, clear of obstacles, for 
photographing ; but it is very accurately engraved in Rhodes’ 
Peak Scenery, from a drawing by Chantrey. 
* The Rev. S. Andrew, the present vicar, has done and is still doing much for 
the preservation of this noble specimen of church architecture. 
