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Melbourne Church, Derbyshire.

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The lands and tenements belonging to the church are mentioned in an ancient sirvey of the manor made the 7 Hen. VIII. (1516) and were held in fee-farm of the duchy by the rents there mentioned.

Joh~es Thurnaston Capell~s. Cantarie St~e Katherine ten~ lib~e un. Mefs~. et iiij vergat. terr. nup~. Rob~ti. de Hichfield et postea Willi~. Bars et terr et ten. in Neuton et Wylnaston nup. Will~i Bars, et r. p~ann.

s. d. x viij ob. et. sect. cur.

Capell~s. Cantarie St~i Michis ten. certa terr. et tent. et redd~. p~ann.

iij v.

The chauntry-house of St. Katherine is still remaining; it is a very ancient stone building standing near the west end of the church, and is now converted into a malting office. From the above-mentioned survey it seems to have been very liberally endowed; a messuage and four yardlands in Melbourne, and other lands and tenements in Newton and Wilson, must have been a considerable property for John Thurnaston, the chaplain thereof.


Description of Drawings from Melbourne Church.

No. I. Pl. XX.—The Plan. A, B and C—Walls, which at this time shut out the communication of the Porticos with the church—the windows of the ailes have been cut out for the admission of a subsequent style.

E. E. E.—Dotted lines, shewing the ancient terminations of the east end of the chancel, and the north and south chauntries.

F F F—Gothick formed windows, since introduced.

No. II. Pl. XXI.—The Section from west to east. D—the wall which divides the chamber over the middle Porticus from the naveof

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