A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities, also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1883)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Godwin, George, 1813-1888 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the Author, Burton Street · leaf 200
quently made to containrelics of saints. Crvpt, cri/pte, Fr., from zoutVw, Gr., and crypto,Lat., to hide; a vault, or subterraneous apart-ment beneath t church. In the early ages ofChristianity, when the Cliurch was harassedbypersecution, it was necessary for its members tomeet in the most secret… … CAKTEHBTTRT CATHEDRAL CHTTRCH.ciurrTS tMiIan fulli*f.fd iLITECTDRAL DlCtlVEUHCT.
