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ˈundercroft
[under-1 5 b or c + croft n.2]
The crypt of a church; an underground vault or chamber.
In early use app. limited to the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral.
1395in Legg & Hope Inventories (1902) 99 Prope altare beate Marie dicte ecclesie Cant. in Criptis que under croft vulgariter nuncupatur. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 50 The monkes..buried it [the body] immediately in the vnder⁓craft. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 202 This murdered Bishop was buried first in the vndercroft of the Church. Ibid. 213. 1640 Somner Antiq. Canterb. 175 Let me now leade you to the Undercroft. A place fit..to keepe in memory the subterraneous Temples of the Primitives in the times of persecution. 1772S. Denne Hist. Rochester 61 From this chapel you descend into the under croft. 1790Pennant London 330 This undercroft, as these sort of buildings were called, had in it several chauntries and monuments. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 250/1 The body of the church might be made to stand upon an under⁓croft. 1865Morris Jason xv. 1021 Now went those maids, groping with outstretched hand Betwixt the pillars of the undercroft. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xiii. 292 A vaulted undercroft supported the hall. |