224 ‘NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 
with circular openings, such as the two in this door, with no | 
provision for their being closed. We take it that this is wood- 
work of Sir Henry’s time. 
This reduced sketch of one 
of these circular openings, 
shows that it is of Decorated 
design. 
Looking at Plate XVI., we 
| see the close propinquity of 
the church, for two of the 
tower pinnacles show over the 
ridge of the roof. There are 
traces, both on the church, and 
at the north end of the Hall 
building, of a probable con- 
nection that at one time existed 
between this block of the Manor House and the parish church. — 
It was very likely a bridged connection, giving private access 
to the south-west chapel of the church; if so, this work would 
be done about 1500 by John Fitzherbert, twelfth lord of Nor- 
bury, and grandson of Sir Nicholas, who completed the Per- 
pendicular alterations of the church, including the south-west 
chapel.* 
Sir Nicholas appears to have made extensive alterations in his 
ancestral home. To his date belong the well-moulded beams of 
the flat roofs of the rooms of both stories communicating with the 
south end of the Great Hall building. These beams are shown 
on Plate XVII. cutting off the upper part of the hood-mould to the 
doorway to the hall, and the subjoined sketch of a beautifully 
foliated square boss is in the roof of the room leading into the 
upper state rooms, over the chamber marked “Brewhouse” on the - ; 
ground plan. 
* For full account of Norbury Church and its monuments, see Churches of 
Derbyshire, vol. iii. pp. 219-246. 
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