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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.