Derbyshire (England) -- Antiquities; Derbyshire (England) -- History
In fact, so persistent altogether was the tradition, and so hard to
kill, that even in Dr. Hutchinson’s debased structure, which took the
place of the demolished All Hallows’, the new chancel was not left
unwarded, but was screened by iron grates. These, though exhibiting in
their design the style of the period, yet reproduced, strange to say,
quite a mediæval scheme of arrangement. A grate divided the chancel
from the nave, and was continued northward and southward right across
the building from wall to wall. And other grates again separated the
chancel from the chancel aisles. These grates, though not altogether
undisturbed, for the most part remained in position until 1873, when
the interior of the building, then barely a century and a half old,
was “restored,” and in the process the chancel grille itself, together
with other fittings hitherto spared, was taken down. Numerous details
of it are figured in the _Chronicles of All Saints’_, issued under the
joint authorship of the Rev. Dr. Cox and Mr. W. H. St. John Hope in
1881, to which volume all who may be interested in a genuinely historic
specimen of eighteenth century wrought ironwork are hereby referred.
There is one peculiar variety of mediæval screen arrangement which may
be said to belong to a class by itself. It is sufficiently uncommon,
being confined almost exclusively to domestic chapels, of which the
former infirmary chapel of Dale Abbey, and such that now serves the
purpose of parish church of Dale, furnishes an interesting example. A
sketch of the interior, in 1870 or thereabouts, is given on plate xvii.
of the late Rev. Samuel Fox’s _History of St. Matthew’s, Morley_ (1872).
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