Derbyshire (England) -- Antiquities; Derbyshire (England) -- History
Bakewell.—A spiral staircase in the wall adjoining the north-east pier
of the central tower stood practically undisturbed until the rebuilding
of the piers in 1841. It was entered from the south-east corner of
the north transept, and would in all probability have served for the
rood-stair when the rood-loft came to be introduced. The oak parclose
which shuts off the east aisle of the south transept to form the Vernon
chapel, is divided by the columns of the arcade into three sections.
Each of these is 11 ft. 7 in. long by 8 ft. 5½ in. high (exclusive of
the modern cornice), and consists of eight rectagonal compartments
centring from 1 ft. 4¾ in. to 1 ft. 5½ in. The openings are 4 ft. 3½
in. high, with Early Perpendicular tracery in the heads to the depth of
1 ft. 0½ in. The cill of each compartment shows traces of having been
guarded by two stanchions, no longer existing. The lower part of the
screen is 4 feet high. The rail is carved with a wave pattern, with a
trefoiled circle in each trough and swell, and a band of quatrefoils
runs along the base. The upper half of the panels below the rail is
perforated with a pattern like a square-headed traceried window of the
period. The greater muntins have shafts, with polygonal bases. The
screen is left, in midland fashion, unfinished at the back. The two
midmost compartments of the southernmost section form the doors.
Belper.—In 1821 the chancel of St. John Baptist chapel was separated
from the nave “by a plain screen composed of small arches and round
columns of wood.” The screen itself eventually disappeared, but long
afterwards the marks remained in the walls showing where it had been
fixed.
Bolsover.—A new organ-chamber, built in 1878, was eloquently described
as having “dwarfed the old chancel and spoilt the north aspect of the
church.” The ruin which the “restoration” of the above year began, an
accidental fire in 1897 completed.
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