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Bratrijowvnc Cljurdj. 



By Albert Hartshorne, F.S.A. 



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|Y the kindness of the Council of the Derbyshire 



Archaeological Society, I am allowed to offer a few 



remarks upon Bradbourne Church, and in doing this 



I will be as brief as I can ; and in order also to be 



clear, I have made a plan which sets forth the different periods of 



the church's history, as shown by the architectural character of 



the various parts of the building. 



The intelligent study of ecclesiastical architecture was first 

 taught us by the late Professor Willis ; he it was who first 

 opened the book of architectural history. He applied historical 

 documents to the actual buildings, and one by one he unfolded 

 the story of many of our cathedrals in a most lucid and admirable 

 manner. What Willis did for cathedrals some others did for 

 casdes, and what they did for castles we are sometimes able to do 

 for churches. 



In the case of cathedrals we have the Fabric Rolls of the 

 ancient foundations ; for castles in the hands of the Crown we 

 have the sheriffs' returns year by year on ihe Great Roll of the 

 Pipe, the Close Rolls, the Liberate Rolls, and other corroborative 

 and collateral evidence, known as the Public Records, all now 

 happily available for use ; they were not so much so some years 

 ago, and antiquaries (who are not infallible) made great blunders 

 in consequence. 



* Read at Bradbourne, July 2ist, iS88. 



