Sometimes, the Great Hall was raised upon an undercroft of stone vaulting, as we see in the Guildhall, the undercroft of which is the finest specimen of its class in the metropolis.
The cloister or undercroft of the hospital was divided into aisles by short columns and covered with groined vaulting.
The chapel and its undercroft are now used as the Minster Library.
Their position, however, was variable; and in such instances the infirmary passage represented a bay cut off from the vaulted undercroft of the dorter, which formed the rest of the ground-floor of the eastern range.
Beneath the seats was a drain or running stream, above which the partitions were carried by transverse arches: on the ground-floor the drain was shut off by a wall from the vaulted undercroft of the gallery.
The oldest part of it consists of a vaulted undercroft of Early English work extending north and south beneath the western part of the house.
The undercroft stops short about twelve feet from the frater wall (or wide enough to leave a cart-way), and there is nothing to shew that it extended further east.
What had those Bishops done whose figures may be seen in the undercroft of the Chapter-house, that they should be torn away from their places and shut up as it were in a posthumous dungeon?
Angers, undercroft of the Bishop's palace at, 176.
The undercroftof the palace at Wells has its parallel at an earlier time in the magnificent example of Romanesque date in the Bishop's palace at Angers.
The Early English fragments which have been built up in the chapel in the Vicars' Close, as well as those which are lying about in the undercroft of the chapter-house, can hardly fail to belong to the destroyed east end.
It was only a small affair, but it must have been the most remarkable feature of the comparatively small oblong building, for it was not, properly speaking, a crypt at all, but an undercroft beneath the eastern altars.
In its great length this choir is unique, and in the lowness of its vaulted roof is also unusual, but this is accounted for by the undercroft beneath.
This crypt or undercroft is on the same level as the floor of the church, and was used as a treasury.
The Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft is enclosed by some Late Perpendicular open stone-work, and was very magnificent.
The chamber leading to the undercroft was the vestry, and the stout walls of the octagon, when it was finished, protected the vestments and treasures of the cathedral.
Two heavy wooden doors at the entrance leave no doubt as to the purpose for which the undercroft was built.
The undercroft was finished before the chapter-house staircase was begun; perhaps its walls were built at the end of Jocelin's episcopate; at any rate it was finished by 1286, and represents the last development of the Early English style.
The canopy is gone, but fragments of it are in the undercroft of the chapter-house.
In the undercroft itself the walls are impregnably thick, the windows narrow, with wide splays.
The undercroft passage, with its curious corbels and bosses, was probably also a part of the old work then completed, as it contains one "toothache" head.
This crypt, which, fortunately, escaped the Great Fire, is the finest and most extensive undercroft remaining in London, and for excellence of design and sound preservation may be considered a unique example of its kind.
The undercroft was nearly twenty feet high, and our illustration (fig.
The Abingdon Town Hall has also an undercroft and dates from 1677.
All that now remains of the cathedral consists of the south aisle of the nave, and the sacristy or undercroft of the chapter-house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undercroft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
