Derbyshire (England) -- Antiquities; Derbyshire (England) -- History
Morley.—This is one of the few Derbyshire instances of which the plan
might have admitted the ancient rood-loft being carried beyond the
width of the nave across the aisles to the outer walls of the church.
At any rate a piscina at the south-east corner of each aisle shows that
there must have been an altar at the end of both aisles, and would also
seem to imply that the aisles themselves were partitioned from the
eastern chapels beyond by screens in a line with the chancel screen. As
to the latter, the tradition in the parish in the time of Rev. S. Fox,
who died in 1870, was that the screen, “rather handsome but decayed,”
had stood in its place until within rather less than 50 or 60 years
of the above date, _i.e._, until as late, perhaps, as 1820, when, not
being thought well of by those in power at the time, it was taken down
and “sold to a farmer in the village for a guinea or so to serve for
a hen-roost or some such agricultural purpose.” However, according
to another account, the rood-screen disappeared when the church was
“repaired and beautified” in or about the year 1800.
Mugginton.—In addition to the parclose before-mentioned, “a good oak
screen of Perpendicular tracery,” it is written in Cox’s _Churches of
Derbyshire_, in 1877, “in fair preservation, with a door in the centre,
divides the” south “aisle from the chapel. Originally this screen has
been continued across the nave, so as to divide it from the chancel.
Part of the base of this screen can still be seen in the supports
of the pews; and a band of well-carved foliage round the pulpit has
probably formed part of the cornice.” It is believed that this screen
was broken up at the time of the ruthless “renovation,” _circa_ 1845.
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