 | No. 1 Paternoster Row | The small triangular building stood at the junction of Paternoster Row and Store Street, facing on Carfax; it consisted only of an entrance court and a sanctuary; the name of the goddess to whom it was dedicated was given by an inscribed limestone mace-head (U.18837, P1. 58b) found just inside the door. The building had been twice rebuilt after its original foundation and had undergone minor alterations as well.
The original building had a rounded corner made with specially moulded bricks; on Paternoster Row there was an offset of 0.08 m., on Store Street the foundations and the face of the wall proper were flush; of it only three courses of burnt brick remained. On these, as a foundation, was built the second version of the chapel; on Paternoster Row it started flush with the old wall, but ran crooked and soon fell back from its line, on Store Street it had a set-back of 0.10 m. throughout its length. Its corner instead of being rounded was taken off by a hollow reveal. On Paternoster Row there was a doorway 0.90 m. wide at 3.25 m. from the comer with its threshold three courses above the offset of the old wall; on Store Street there was another at the same level also 0.90 m. wide at 3.80 m. from the corner. In its latest form the chapel was divided into three parts by a cross-wall running NW X SE which cut off the base of the triangle and by a wall at right angles to this which divided the base or SW end into two. The triangular entrance-court was paved with bricks 0.23 m. X 0.16 m.; in the apex to the NE of the door was a base of a pillar or altar consisting of three courses of burnt bricks. | (none) |