Crypts of Wilfrid at Ripon and Hexham
(The Hexham Crypt is from a Plan by Mr. C. C. Hodges.)
A, | A. | Passages of access, now partly blocked. |
B, | B′. | Vestibules. |
C. | Main chamber or confessio. | |
D. | (Ripon) Hagioscope; (Hexham) stair from the west. | |
E. | Aperture in crown of vault (there was an opening of the kind also in B at Hexham). |
The spaces C, and B (Hexham), are covered with barrel vaults; B (Ripon) with a half-barrel vault; B, B′ (Hexham) with straight-sided vaults. The passages have flat stone roofs.
[Vol. I., facing p. 370.