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Show Curisd I '.OTTr.cn Crypt Vr.covsrcd in England Complete In iminy details, an un-dergiiiund un-dergiiiund church has been t discovered discov-ered In Chilton, England, by Rev. E. P. Cough, director of the Chilton Parish church. The parish church was built on a new site r.bout the middle of the last century and the old church demolished. demol-ished. A veneruhle parishioner told the rector tliut there wus a church underground, under-ground, as he hud been taken Into It when a boy by his father. The rector went to work with pit!; and shovel and found himself standing stand-ing In a perfect vaulted Norman crypt with a west entrance and narrow nar-row lancet windows. This crypt suggests a small but elaborate church, built by a squire of some position about the Twelfth century, cen-tury, which would he at once his private pri-vate chapel, the parish church and place of sepulture . for himself and his family. |