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 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART with a cross ornamented with a star-pattern, on a background of chequerwork. The central part of the tympanum is recessed, and is surrounded by a raised frame ornamented on the straight part at the bottom with a double row of star-pattern, and on the semi-circular part with a saw-tooth pattern. At each of the two lower corners of the frame of the tympanum is a queer little figure with the arms akimbo (as on the tympanum at Findern). Wkltwell} Over the door of the chancel of the church here there is a lintel sculptured with an animal, foliage, and three rosette ornaments. Willington? Over the south doorway of the nave of the church here is a tympanum sculptured with a geometrical pattern of squares with intersecting lines. MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS : Ault Hucknall. The chancel arch in the church here is elaborately ornamented with curious sculptures, amongst which is a little figure holding a cross in one hand and a crozier in the other. Bakewell. The western doorway of the church here has three orders of mouldings. The innermost moulding is plain, the next in the middle ornamented with beak-heads, and the outermost with queer little figures thrusting their heads out from the hollow part of the moulding and holding their arms up like caryatides. The hood-moulding has a star pattern upon it. On the middle capital of the south jamb of the doorway is a man between two others with hideous faces, perhaps representing Christ seized by the Jews. Amongst the pre- Norman and later fragments in the porch is what may be part of a font with the Lion of St. Mark upon it and the name MARCVS inscribed underneath it. Bradbourne. On the south side of the western tower of the church here there is an extremely fine Norman doorway in very good preservation. The arch has three orders of mouldings, the outermost being ornamented with beak-heads and the innermost with a remarkable series of beasts, birds, and other creatures. The most curious of the sculptures represents a monster either swallowing or disgorging a man, perhaps intended for Jonah and the whale. Darley? Built into the interior wall of the tower of the church here are two fragments sculptured with a winged dragon and a beast which appear to have been portions of a tympanum. Another fragment, now preserved in the porch, has been recently discovered during repairs to the tower. Heath. Built into the wall of the porch of the church here is a slab with the Crucifixion sculptured upon it. Beneath the feet of the Saviour is an animal of some kind.* There is also a curious slab here with several crosses and three figures upon it. 6 Duffield. Built into the wall of the south aisle of the church here below the west window, on the inside, are two nearly square stones, one with a bird sculptured upon it and the other with a beast. 6 Long Eaton. The south doorway of the church here has three orders of mouldings, the middle one being ornamented with beak-heads. Shirley. Built into the east wall of the church here on the outside is a sculptured fragment i foot 6 inches long by 10 inches wide with a bird and five or six animals upon it. 7 Stanton-by-Bridge. Built into the walls of a farmhouse on the traditional site of an ancient chapel is a stone 2 feet 6 inches long sculptured with an animal of some kind. 8 Steetley? There are several details of the exquisitely beautiful little Norman chapel which exhibit sculpture. The south doorway has three orders of arch-mouldings, the innermost simply moulded, the middle one ornamented with beak-heads, and the outermost with a double row of chevrons. The two nook-shafts of each of the jambs are sculptured, the outer shaft being decorated with medallions enclosing figures of animals and the inner shaft with foliage. The capitals of the columns of the chancel arch on the north side are sculptured with a lion having a single head and a double body, and a representation of the contest between 1 B.M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 71 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N. S. vi. 257. 2 Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, iv. 437 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N. S. vi. 257. s Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, ii. 168 ; B. M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 16. 8 Antiquary, Dec. 1897, 354. 7 Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, iii. 274 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N. S. vi. 256. 8 Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, iii. 472 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. viii. 153, and N. S. vi. 256. 9 See Lysons, Derbyshire, ccxx ; White, Worksop and Dukeries, p. 40 ; Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, ' 399. 475> d iv- 43- 291
 * B. M. Add. MSS. 4963, f. 29. * Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, i. 257.