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Although the providing of buildings for religious purposes 

 came to an almost complete standstill during the long reign of 

 Elizabeth, there was an extraordinary development of domestic 

 architecture not only on a noble scale, where the new style often 

 had full sway, but also in buildings of lesser dimensions, and in 

 the smaller manor houses, where the old native traditions were 

 slower in yielding to the foreign ideas. Derbyshire has no 

 magnificent examples such as are to be found at Burleigh and 

 Kirby in Northamptonshire, though Bess of Hardwick left 

 behind her a sufficiently pretentious and effective effort, where 

 both comfort and grace were sacrificed to the overweening 

 desire for abundance of glass, wherein it had been her intention to 

 . have a magnificent display of heraldic ornament. Its appearance 

 IS well summed up in the old jingle that says :-" Hardwick 

 Hall, more glass than wall!" Mr. Gotch dealt generously 

 with Hardwick in his former great portfolio work ; and in these 

 pages will be found a plate of the presence chamber with its 

 remarkable plaster frieze between six and seven feet deep 

 ornamented with figure subjects in relief, and another plate of 

 the marble panel over one of the bedroom chimney-pieces 

 richly carved with an allegorical design. 



Haddon Hall, the most interesting piece of domestic work 

 in all England, whose every style from early Norman to later 

 Renaissance is blended in the one diversified but most har- 

 monious building, has, if possible, been too much illustrated • 

 until certain parts, such as the doorway of Dorothy's fabled 

 exit, have become almost hackneyed. But no one of taste can 

 regret that Mr. Gotch's cultured eye was caught bv such 

 details as a door-latch, a window fastener, a leaden rain-head 

 spout, a corner of the great hall, the wooden fittings of the 

 chapel, or a beautiful pattern on a ceiling in the gatehouse. 



Far less known than Haddon or Hardwick, are Bolsover 

 Castle, and Barlborough Hall. At Bolsover, a square house 

 was built in 16 1 3, on the site of the ancient Norman keep. 

 A ground plan is given of this symmetrical house with its 

 forecourt and lodges, as well as a photographic plate of the 



