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House, circa 1580-5. The workmen not only beautified the 

 interior of the adjacent church with a classical screen, and 

 adorned the walls with richly bordered texts, but they built a 

 new and handsome south doorway after a fashion exactly 

 harmonising with the House. This rare if not unique church 

 embellishment of Elizabethan days was ruthlessly swept away 

 in the " seventies," by Sir Gilbert Scott, to give place to an 

 ordinary doorway and porch of Gothic imitation, in order that 

 the whole church might "harmonise"! 



Frieze of the Foljambe Tomb (1592). Chesterfield Church. 



The influence, then, of the new classic style had no oppor- 

 tunity for many a long year of shewing itself in English church 

 building for the simple reason that Englishmen had ceased to 

 build to the honour and glory of God. Folk had, however, 

 still to be buried, and the great ones had not lost their desire 

 to be specially commemorated, if not by prayers, at least by 

 costly tombs within consecrated walls. The new style, intro- 

 duced with consummate and costly skill on the monument of 

 Henry VII., began gradually to make its way throughout 

 England in the memorials of the wealthy dead. In more 

 remote districts, such as Derbyshire, the old idea of the table 



