. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. they are represented as perfect; the vault-ing receives a subsidiary support from halfcolumns attached to the walls, of a correspondingcharacter with the main clusters. The entranceto the crypt, is by a flap in the front of thehouse, (in the view a pointed window is substi-tuted,) nearly opposite to this is an acutely pointed opening, (alsoshewn in the cut,) which was originally intended for a window,but has at some later period been converted into a door-way, andwas then^the entrance to the crypt from above, a
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. they are represented as perfect; the vault-ing receives a subsidiary support from halfcolumns attached to the walls, of a correspondingcharacter with the main clusters. The entranceto the crypt, is by a flap in the front of thehouse, (in the view a pointed window is substi-tuted,) nearly opposite to this is an acutely pointed opening, (alsoshewn in the cut,) which was originally intended for a window,but has at some later period been converted into a door-way, andwas then^the entrance to the crypt from above, as a winding flightof stairs still existing on the outside of the opening evinces. Thewindows are square, the frames remaining appear more modern thanthe main structure; they are all walled up except one in thenorthern extremity of the crypt, which is partially vacant; the sillsare formed close below the vault, a proof that the erection was at alltimes a crypt; the termination northward of both the aisles iscurious; it is irregular in plan and elevation, and the vaulting displays. 90 HISTORY OF LONDON. a greater degree of masonic skill in consequence of the irregularityof the walls. In the western wall an opening has been brokenthrough, which leads into an extensive range of cellaring, inwhich there is no vestige of antiquity except a wall constructedof old materials. From the absence of any relig-ious or sacerdotal emblem appearingin the carvings, as well as the circumstance of the structure standingin its longest proportions north and south, it is not at all probablethat it ever was a church, or the crypt of one; that it might apper-tain to some one of the various ecclesiastical establishments, whichexisted in this quarter is somewhat borne out by the high charac-ter of its architecture ; from the style of which it is probable thatthese remains are the workmanship of the latter part of the thir-teenth century. The bull of pope Innocent III, noticed before, mentions thechapel o
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