A concrete enclosure for interment Mausoleum crypts are generally above ground and in buildings Crypts in garden mausoleums also are usually above ground but are open to the outside rather than being in an enclosed building Types of crypts are: Mausoleum Crypt - interior; Garden Crypt - exterior; Lawn Crypt - below ground
A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory
A crypt is an underground room underneath a church or cathedral. people buried in the crypt of an old London church. a room under a church, used in the past for burying people vault (crypta, from , from kryptos; CRYPTO-). Subterranean chamber, usually under a church floor. The catacombs of the early Christians were known as cryptae, and when churches came to be built over the tombs of saints and martyrs, subterranean chapels were built around the actual tomb. As early as the reign of Constantine I (AD 306-37), the crypt was considered a normal part of a church. Later its size was increased to include the entire space beneath the choir or chancel; the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral is an elaborate underground church with its own apse. Many secular medieval European buildings also had richly decorated crypts
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