THE POOLE TOWN CELLAR. 81 



The Town Cellar has on the north in Salisbury-street two 

 windows, but no door, and I wish to call your attention to the fact 

 of there being no door on the side farthest from the Quay, as being 

 partial evidence that this was not the building mentioned in the 

 account of Pero Nino's attack on Poole in 1406. On the Quay, or 

 south side, are two doors and three windows, one of which 

 windows has been converted into a door. In the part on the other 

 side of Thames-street, now used as cellar and storehouse and 

 formerly as stables to the New Inn, there are apertures of five 

 windows looking towards the Quay, three on the same level as 

 those in the other portion of the building and two in the roof, but 

 the lower openings are now blocked up by the building known as 

 the Town House, and at the west end is a large window. At 

 either extremity of the roof of the Town Cellar are cope stones 

 with square recesses in their upper surfaces for a finial, possibly a 

 cross. On the house bounding the east side of Kendall's-lane is 

 also a cope stone, apparently of the same date, for, as far as one can 

 judge in their present mutilated condition, they are alike in size and 

 carving. It was the identity of these finial bases which first con- 

 firmed my impression that the Town Cellar and the stable of the 

 New Inn were parts of the same building. It was the finding of 

 the other on the house bounding Kendall's-lane which led me to 

 associate that house, erroneously known as Sir William Phippard's 

 house, but which never was his, with the Ship Inn and the Town 

 Cellars ; the three buildings forming the two sides of a quadrangle, 

 of which a third side was in the direction of the wall at the back 

 of the St. Clement's Inn, described by both Hutchins and 

 Sydenham as the remains of the Town Wall referred to by Leland 

 in his Itinerary, circiter 1545, as begun by Richard III. between 

 1483 and 1485. On the side of the Town Cellar facing the Quay, 

 and at the end next the Old Ship Inn, is a heavy corbel, which, 

 from the appearance of the wall, has been introduced subsequently 

 to the erection of the building. This corbel is of large size, as if 

 to take some very great weight, but it has no skewback, an 

 omission compensated for, as I shall presently describe ; but 



