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A cave or cavern.
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An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
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A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
Examples of crypt in a Sentence
Gabriel knew how sensitive the crypt in the basement was.
He explored the crypt, gaze going to the display of his mother on one wall.
The lofty presbytery and the crypt under it belong to the i 2th century.
It is remarkable for its large crypt and its towers, a fourth having been added in 1894, the gift of the emperor William II.
Below the nave is another crypt.
It looked like a crypt.
His thoughts went to his father.s crypt.
Stevenson, since dead, discovered in 1896 a small subterranean basilica in the catacomb of Santi Pietro e Marcellino on the Via Labicana, with pious acclamations on the plaster similar to those in the Papal crypt in St Calixtus.
At the time of the Norman invasion the Saxon cathedral, with the library of Archbishop Egbert, perished in the fire by which the greater part of the city was destroyed, the only relic remaining being the central wall of the crypt.
The interior, which has a crypt in each transept, in the main preserves its original character.
The mosque to which the tower belongs is a large brick building erected by `Abd el Mumin; the interior is adorned with marble pillars, and the whole of the crypt is occupied by a vast cistern excavated by Yakub el Mansur.
The crypt embodies remains of the founder's work; the rest is Transitional Norman and Early English in style.
There are some 15thand 16th-century brasses, a dark cradle roof, and an early 13th-century crypt under the chancel.
The church of St Andrew is a spacious transitional Norman and Early English building, with later additions, and was formerly a chapel of ease to Waverley Abbey, of which a crypt and fragmentary remains, of Early English date, stand in the park attached to a modern residence of the same name.
With the exception of a crypt, the monastic buildings have disappeared.
In the crypt of the church General Leonidas Polk is buried; and in the churchyard are the graves of George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of George Washington, and of William Longstreet, the inventor.
King Charles Albert and other kings and princes of the Savoy dynasty are buried in the crypt.
In the crypt there is a fine pieta in marble by Giovanni da Bologna.
He was buried in the atrium of St Peter's, and when the church was rebuilt his remains were removed to the crypt, where his tomb may still be seen.
The date of the erection of the cathedral is probably about 1179; it retains some traces of Norman architecture, and the facade has a fine figured cornice by Bartolommeo da Foggia; the crypt has capitals of the 11th (?) century.
The cathedral was founded on the ruins of St Wilfrid's abbey about 680, but of this Saxon building nothing now remains except the crypt, called St Wilfrid's Needle.
Earlier than the rest of the fabric (except the crypt) is part of the chapter-house and the vestry, adjoining the south side of the choir, and terminating eastward in an apse.
This is pure Norman work, and there is a crypt of that period beneath, which was formerly filled with unburied bones.
It possesses a Gothic church, with a crypt dating from the 15th century, and a still older Romanesque burial chapel.
In the crypt is a bronze statue of St Matthew.
In a crypt under the choir lies the body of the cardinal saint Carlo Borromeo, who consecrated the cathedral in 1577.
In a great silver reliquary (modern) in the crypt lie the bones of St Ambrose,.
Besides these may be mentioned the church of St Pantaleon, a 13th-century structure, with a monument to Theophano, wife of the emperor Otto II.; St Cunibert, in the Byzantine-Moorish style, completed in 1248; St Maria im Capitol, the oldest church in Cologne, dedicated in 1049 by Pope Leo IX., noted for its crypt, organ and paintings; St Cecilia, St Ursula, containing the bones of that saint and, according to legend, of the 1 r,000 English virgins massacred near Cologne while on a pilgrimage to Rome; St Severin, the church of the Apostles, and that of St Andrew (1220 and 1414), which contains the remains of Albertus Magnus in a gilded shrine.
The facade dates from 1278, and the interior of the edifice dates in the main from 1543 In the crypt is the tomb of Andrea Doria by Montorsoli, and above the main altar hangs the dagger presented to the doge by Pope Paul III.
The crypt dates from about the 6th century and is dedicated to Sitt Miriam (the Lady Mary), from a tradition that in the flight into Egypt the Virgin and Child rested at this spot.
The crypt, discovered in 1726, is part of the Saxon church, and a noteworthy example of architecture of the period.
The magnificent chancel (1349-1372), with the 14thcentury crypt below, rests on massive substructures, known as the Cavate.
A much earlier church formerly occupied the site, and of this the crypt remains beneath the existing chancel.
On the 30th of January 1907 the body was removed with great ceremony from Kensal Green and reburied in the crypt of the new cathedral, where it lies beneath a Gothic altar tomb, with a recumbent effigy of the archbishop in full pontificals.
The crypt contains frescoes of the 13th century, and in the treasury are valuable vestments.
Queen Matilda is interred in the choir, and a fine crypt beneath it contains the remains of former abbesses.
The present cathedral was built at the beginning of the 18th century on the model of St Peter's at Rome, but it has an ancient crypt, which contains the bones of St Boniface and was restored in 1892.
Nicola, founded in 5087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt.
The façade is fine, and the interior, divided into three naves by columns, with galleries over the aisles, has fortunately not been restored; the vaulting of the crypt has, however, been covered with modern stucco.
The crypt was added in 1818, when the sarcophagus containing his remains was discovered.
The crypt is a large church supported by one hundred columns.
In 1870, the year in which he was very seriously injured in a railway accident, he was elected professor of physics at Owens 1 On the 6th of November 1878 his body was stolen from St Mark's churchyard in New York, but recovered in 1881 upon the payment of $20,000, and buried in the crypt of the cathedral in Garden City.
Near the town is the church of St Wipertus, which dates from the 12th century, and has a crypt of the 10th century.
A fine crypt, along with remains of the prior's lodging, refectory and chapel, may still be viewed, as the priory was purchased by private subscription and handed over to the municipality in 1896.
Below the chapel is a crypt of the 15th century inserted beneath a building which had no previous crypt.
The cathedral, which was restored in 1884-1886, has a choir, a crypt and two towers of the 11th, a transept of the 13th and a late Gothic nave of the 16th century.
The crypt under the raised transept and choir is one of the largest in the world, and the church is one of the finest in Scandinavia.
The chancel, surrounded with radiating chapels, is a fine example of early Gothic. Underneath it there is a crypt of the i i th century restored in the 15th century.
Giovanni in Toro, spoilt by restorations in the 18th century, contains a splendid pulpit in Cosmatesque work, supported on four pillars, and the crypt some 14th-century frescoes.
The churches of St Christopher (13th and .15th centuries) and St Nicholas, the latter combining the Romanesque and Gothic styles and built above a Romanesque crypt, are of interest.