Spent this afternoon looking at the cellars of the buildings up the hill, north, of the chapel.
Aa with the chapel almost no original features remain, no fireplaces or plaster and many have lost their appearance of being a room because the floors of the shops above have been lowered so that they are now flush with the pavement of George Street.
One of the premises has retained some fitments which we hope to replicate in the chapel cellar, though not the nice stone steps. To the side of the, now empty fireplace, is a built in cupboard with four doors and a stone sink on the other side of the fireplace. A board partition is still in place between the window and the access door from Jackson Pit. As with the cellar dwellings at the chapel the access from Jackson Pit is at street level, not a true cellar, though th e windows on the George Street elevation are below the level of the street.
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| Stone steps down to the basement. |
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| Green paint to the built in cupboard door. |
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| The back of the cupboard is un-plastered brickwork. |
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| A board partition between the window (now bricked up) and the door to Jackson Pit. |
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