A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 427
ed;hence, — A. A room, whether used merely as a jilaceof burial and reverenced when containing theashes of a sanctified ]ierson, or used as an oratoryor chapel. By extension, — B. A story lieneath the iiavemeiit of a largeror more important upper clnirch. It fieijuentlyhappens that the cryi)t… … Crypt: Cathedral of S. Lucius, Chur, Switzerland. The choir is appro.iehed by the two tii^hts of stejis, between whieli is theentmnce to the crypt below. earliest Romanesque architecture is derived fiomthese small, generally simple, and much-fre-fpiented sanctuaries. The term crypt is some-times…
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