Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
pmc1947. I remember it as you describe, an entrance of steps going down with a concrete slopping cover ( just like one in Coleman Street outside the Salvation Army.) We thought it was to the burial vaults, it may well have been because I remember little chambers at the sides of the passageway.I only remember going down there once but I certainly remember it and I was spooked by the place. At the bottom of the steps a passage went to the right and seemed to run under the floor of the church.
Ernie,
Perhaps the crypt was utilised as an air raid shelter, because as I understand it on the night it was bombed people were trapped for a while in the crypt where they had sheltered from the bombing. At least I thought I read that somewhere.
So perhaps we are both right, it was a shelter and it was a crypt.
Phil