Ihe Icton Cellar, or the (Ehitrch of the 

 Jftona0terp of t. Clement's, 



AND OTHER BUILDINGS SUPPOSED TO BE CONNECTED THEREWITH, 

 IN THE TOWN OF POOLE. 



By Dr. W. TURNER, J.P. 



HE Town Cellar is a large building of stone, 

 standing at the south end of the Quay of Poole, 

 or rather of the Great Quay, as that portion of the 

 Quay was formerly known, and bearing the inscrip- 

 tion "Town Cellar" over one of its doorways. 

 But little appears to be known of the original 

 intention of this building. Hutchins says of it : " The Great 

 Cellar, or King's Hall, or Woolhouse : an edifice of some antiquity, 

 supposed to have been built Temp. Edward III. (A.D. 1327-77), or 

 2nd Henry VI. (A.D. 1424). It is a large stone building, the 

 walls strengthened by low buttresses, with details of a decidedly 

 ecclesiastical character, leading to the conjecture that such was its 

 former use, though subsequently appropriated by the Lords of the 

 Manor as a storehouse for the tallages anciently received in kind, 

 and for other property." He adduces as evidence of its being used 

 by the Lords of the Manor, for the purpose before mentioned, that 

 there was in Salisbury-street on the north side of the Town Cellar, 

 until about 1820, when the present engine-house was built, a build- 

 ing, described, amongst others, in the town records, as belonging to 



