Wire notes in his diary 23/11/1855 ' The grave digger of Herrick's Chapel burial ground informs me. When digging a grave…he discovered a variegated tessellated pavement… and that under it were some chips of granite' <1> also on 14/2/1856 ' purchased about twenty red bricks, 4 x 2.5 x 7/8 "…found in the burial ground attached to Stockwell Street Chapel. This constituted the ground work of a tessellated pavement of red tesserae in the following order; first a foundation of the bricks set edgeways, then about a foot thick of broken granite, then the concrete on the top of which was set the…pavement. What was the extent of the discovery could not say…but believes it runs under St Helen's Lane. <2><3>