. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. -places, the HISTORY OF LONDON. 251 loftiness of the walls, the space and antiquity of the room, havethe appearance of a baronial or collegiate establishment. A vestige of the earliest erection of the hall in the fourteenthcentury still exists in a crypt, which is situated near the north-eastangle of the hall, partly running under the entrance court; itis now used as a coal cellar. The following is a ground plan takenfrom actual admeasurement for this work : Plan of Vaults. The vaulting is very simple ; it is d
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. -places, the HISTORY OF LONDON. 251 loftiness of the walls, the space and antiquity of the room, havethe appearance of a baronial or collegiate establishment. A vestige of the earliest erection of the hall in the fourteenthcentury still exists in a crypt, which is situated near the north-eastangle of the hall, partly running under the entrance court; itis now used as a coal cellar. The following is a ground plan takenfrom actual admeasurement for this work : Plan of Vaults. The vaulting is very simple ; it is divided by arched ribs crossingfrom side to side into three divisions, which are again crossed bydiagonal ribs issuing from the same impost. The points of inter-section are without bosses. The imposts consist of corbels formedof grotesque heads, sustaining oc-tangular capitals. Two of theheads are engraved. The materials of which thewalls of the crypt are formed, arechalk and rag-stone, and the ar-chitecture is distinguished by so-lidity and plainness rather thanby its
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