How the Mighty Have Fallen

This is the current incarnation of High Pavement Chapel:

Confusingly, to those not in the know, these premises - home to Nottingham Unitarians - are actually on Plumptre Street.

The building is not too shabby - it's a Grade II listed former warehouse, in fact.

However, it does pale somewhat in comparison with the previous High Pavement Chapel, which, gratifyingly, is on High Pavement.

There are many interesting facts about the 'proper' High Pavement Chapel, but I will limit myself to just one for the purposes of this post, and that is that Samuel Taylor Coleridge preached here (albeit in an earlier building) in 1796. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have been on his setlist, though, because he didn't start writing that until the year after.

As you can perhaps just make out, if you click on the photo to enlarge it, the A-board outside what is now the Pitcher & Piano bar is advertising a 'Drag Bottomless Brunch'.

£40 will buy you '2½ hours of bottomless drinks & a brunch dish, with performances from @itsjaninethequeen, @tomarathomas and @strictly_darcey_hustle'. Not really up my Straße, but no doubt all very jolly.

What the congregations of the past would make of it all is another matter entirely.