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- 1804
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Proposals include a clerestory with lunette windows that has been cancelled, the reduction of the chancel (as in [SM D1/16/3]), a chancel arch, the lean-to roofs of the aisles, changed to ridge roofs and a stair turret on the south-west corner. However, Dance's drawings are unfinished and Pevsner states 'Dec wtih a Perp S aisle, but all very much restored: the chancel and the extension of the N aisle are entirely by H.I. Stevens of Derby, 1854' (Leicestershire and Rutland, 2nd ed. revised by E. Williamson, 1984, p.136). Perhaps Sir George Beaumont (to whom there is a simple Grecian tablet, 1827, in the Church), who commissioned Dance to work on Coleorton Hall (1802-08), asked him to look at proposals by someone else; Dance then made his own survey and began a design which was modified and carried out but lost in the more radican alterations of 1854. Farington noted in his diary (17 October 1812) that the Church had been completely repaired.
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