Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Chartres Cathedral' has mentioned 'Crypt' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 History 1.1 Earlier Cathedrals 1.2 Fire and reconstruction (1194xe2x80x931260) 1.3 Later modifications (13thxe2x80x9318th centuries) and the Coronation of Henry IV of France 1.4 French Revolution and 19th century 1.5 World War II 1.6 2009 restoration 1.7 Liturgy 2 Description 2.1 Statistics 2.2 Plan and elevation xe2x80x93 flying buttresses 3 The towers and clock 4 The Portals and their sculpture 4.1 West, or Royal Portal (12th century) 4.2 North transept portals (13th century) 4.3 South portal (13th century) 5 Angels and monsters 6 Nave and ambulatory 7 Stained glass windows 7.1 12th century windows 7.2 Rose windows 7.3 Windows in aisles and the choir ambulatory 7.4 Clerestory windows 7.4.1 Later windows 8 The Crypt (9thxe2x80x9311th century) 9 High Altar (18th century) 10 Choir wall (16th-18th centuries) 11 Labyrinth 12 Chapel of Piatus of Tournai, bishop's palace and gardens 13 Construction 14 Restoration 15 The School of Chartres 16 Social and economic context 17 Pilgrimages and the legend of the Sancta Camisa 18 Popular culture 19 Chartres Light Celebration 20 See also 21 References 22 Bibliography 23 External links | WIKI |
| It is lower than the rest of the crypt and may have been the shrine of a local saint, prior to the church's rededication to the Virgin Mary. | WIKI |
| Only the crypt, the towers, and the new facade survived. | WIKI |
| The plan, like other Gothic cathedrals, is in the form of a cross and was determined by the shape and size of the 11th-century Romanesque cathedral, whose crypt and vestiges are underneath it. | WIKI |
| From the ambulatory three deep semi-circular chapels radiate (overlying the deep chapels of Fulbert's 11th-century crypt). | WIKI |
| The two towers survived the devastating fire of 1194, which destroyed most of the cathedral except the west facade and crypt. | WIKI |
| One major exception to this scheme is the presence of large statues of St Modesta (a local martyr) and St Potentian on the north west corner of the porch, close to a small doorway where pilgrims visiting the crypt (where their relics were stored) would once have emerged. | WIKI |
| This composition, known as the Sedes sapientiae ("Throne of Wisdom"), which also appears on the Portail royal, is based on the famous cult figure kept in the crypt. | WIKI |
| The Crypt (9thxe2x80x9311th century)[edit] | WIKI |
| The Well of the Saints Forts, in the Saint Fulbert Crypt 12th century fresco in the Saint Lubin Crypt, showing the Virgin Mary on her throne of wisdom, with the Three Kings to her right and Savinien and Potenien to her left | WIKI |
| The small Saint Lubin Crypt, under the choir of the cathedral, was constructed in the 9th century and is the oldest part of the building. | WIKI |
| It is surrounded by a much larger crypt, the Saint Fulbert Crypt, which was completed in 1025, five years after the fire that destroyed most of the older cathedral. | WIKI |
| It is U-shaped, 230 meters long, next to the crypts of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and Canterbury Cathedral, it is the largest crypt in Europe and serves as the foundation of the Cathedral above. | WIKI |
| The corridors and chapels of the crypt are covered with Romanesque barrel vaults, groin vaults where two barrel vaults meet at right angles, and a few more modern Gothic rib-vaults. | WIKI |
| One notable feature of the crypt is the Well of the Saints-Forts. | WIKI |
| Another notable feature is the Our Lady of the Crypt Chapel. | WIKI |
| and the small Shrine of Our Lady of the Crypt. | WIKI |
| The undamaged western towers and faxc3xa7ade were incorporated into the new works, as was the earlier crypt, effectively limiting the designers of the new building to the same general plan as its predecessor. | WIKI |
| The ordinance assigned to the wine-sellers part of the crypt, where they could avoid the count's taxes without disturbing worshippers. | WIKI |
| During the Merovingian and early Carolingian eras, the main focus of devotion for pilgrims was a well (now located in the north side of Fulbert's crypt), known as the Puits des Saints-Forts, or the 'Well of the Strong Saints', into which it was believed the bodies of various local Early-Christian martyrs (including saints Piat, Cheron, Modesta and Potentianus) had been tossed. | WIKI |
| When ergotism (more popularly known in the Middle Ages as "St. Anthony's fire") afflicted many victims, the crypt of the original church became a hospital to care for the sick. | WIKI |