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0n an Eutm'or »wtroto of Cljestarffettr 



( Disclosed August, 1885J 



By Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D. 



jAST August (1885) an interesting discovery was made 

 in the parish church of Chesterfield. Mr. John T. 

 Windle, one of the churchwardens, was good enough 

 to promptly write upon the subject, and to furnish an excellent 

 photograph, from which the engraving on Plate XI. is copied. 

 Mr. Windle has since most kindly supplied further information, 

 and also a ground plan of the eastern division of this large 

 church. 



Workmen were engaged in pulling down the heating apparatus 

 in a chapel to the east of the north transept, which had been 

 placed there, we believe, during the restoration of 1843, when, at 

 the back of the base of the chimney, a piscina niche in fair 

 preservation was disclosed.* This piscina niche, which is fixed 

 in the south side of the east wall that separates this chapel from 

 the modern lean-to vestry, is shown on the plate. Upon removing 

 some more of the bricks, an opening to the right was made, 

 which upon enlargement exposed to view a window-like con- 

 struction in the south wall, that has originally communicated 



* Mr. Windle tells us that, the piscina having been revealed in the absence 

 of anyone in authority, a workman had carefully built it up again with bricks. 

 Upon ordering these bricks to be removed, Mr. Windle was assured, in a 

 deprecating tone, "It is only an owd water-trough, sir ; I've seen 'em before 

 in owd churches." 



