ALL SAINTS CHURCH, MACKWORTH. 1 75 



The Abbot of Darley only enjoyed a single presentation to 

 this vicarage, and, foreseeing the probable dissolution of monas- 

 teries, sold the next presentation to William Ragg. The advowson 

 of the Vicarage afterwards changed hands once or twice, but 

 eventually it came to the Mundys, who were lords of the Manor, 

 and with them it has remained about three centuries. In Dr. 

 Cox's Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, from which I have 

 derived much of the information contained in this paper, may be 

 found a record of the rectors and vicars of Mackworth, from 

 about the year 1200 to the appointment of the late Vicar, the 

 Rev. William Gilder, in 1858. 



The church consists of a chancel, nave, with north and south 

 aisles, and western tower and spire. It is entered by a large 

 porch on the south side, with a parvise over it. The building 

 was re-roofed and renovated in the year 185 1, when an organ 

 aisle and vestry were added to the north of the chancel. The 

 oldest feature in the church is the west window of the north aisle ; 

 this belongs to an older fabric than the rest of the church. The 

 piscina in the south aisle is also of the same date— towards the 

 end of the thirteenth century. 



The nave of the church, with the arcade of three arches on 

 each side, was built about the year 1320, and the chancel soon 

 after this date. The aisles and tower are early fifteenth century 

 work. The tower is remarkable, as having been built as a place 

 of defence ; the lower stages being without any outside entrance, 

 and only lighted by very small windows at some distance from the 

 ground. It is also provided with three cross-bow loopholes, 

 placed below the string course under the belfry windows. The 

 entrance to the tower is from the nave of the church through the 

 large western doorway ; the door opens inwards to the tower, and 

 when closed is secured on the inside by means of a large beam of 

 wood, for which provision is made in the thickness of the 

 wall, the beam having to be pushed back into the bolt-hole before 

 the door can be opened. 



The canopy in the north aisle is curious. Some authorities 

 believe it to have been an Easter tomb, but tradition names it the 



