Identifier: surreyarchaeolog32surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society, Guilford
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: London, etc
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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, in a very perfectstate, hardly touched by repair, and retaining even theold latch and bolt. The framing is very slight, consistingof a central lock-rail 8J in. wide and this diagonallycrossed arrangement of chamfered bars, 2j in. by 1J in.There are two horizontal bars in the head, the trefoiledform of which is outlined by a similar chamfered fillet,and there is a chamfered cill at bottom. It would be agreat gain to the doorway if its thick coating of colour-wash could be carefully removed and to these venerabledoors if the paint that smothers them were pickled off. As to the purposes served by the crypt of the chapel,it is perfectly certain that it was not built or used forreligious worship any more than was the undercroft ofEly Place Chapel, Holborn, another prelates townhouse. It was built for storage, or other purely domesticuses, and to elevate conspicuously the important chapelover it—precisely as in the case of St. Stephens Chapel, THE CRYPT AND CHAPEL OF LAMBETH PALACE. 151
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Xc^f t ? ( 1 ^ 1^ Fig. 6. 152 THE CRYPT AND CHAPEL OP LAMBETH PALACE. Westminster, on the opposite bank of the Thames; andlast but not least, to avoid the danger of floods from theriver. Until the 19th century embankment of theThames, these floods were of frequent occurrence. One historical event of the first importance is insepar-ably linked with the chapel crypt. It had probablybeen used for the trial of heretics and other offendersagainst the laws ecclesiastical and civil—perhaps even forcourts of the archbishops extensive manor of Lambeth.At any rate it was in this crypt that, on the 17th of May,1536, Anne Boleyn, on whose brows Archbishop Cranmerhad placed the Royal Crown, was tried before the sametime-serving prelate, and by him condemned to be burnedat the stake as an adulteress—a sentence exchanged forthat of beheadal, on the wretched woman disavowingthe legality of her marriage to the Royal Monster andbastardizing her child Elizabeth. In this crypt Annewas persuaded into

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