(41) Becketts Chapel Undercroft
Updated 04/04/2020
BECKETTS CHAPEL, ST ANDREWS HALL
In c. 1258, the Friars of the Sack obtained permission to celebrate services, ring their bell and bury the dead. It was probably at this time that they built the brick vaulting in the crypt (see St Andews Hall for information about this undercroft), and added Becket’s chapel as their church.
When the building was taken over by the black friars in 1307, Becket’s chapel served them as their first church while the much larger present church was erected to the south.
At the Reformation the crypt and Becket’s chapel were converted into a dwelling house. The chapel was destroyed in 1874.
There are the remains of 6-bays with brick responds for vaulting, consisting of single order diagonal and lateral ribs to springing level. It now has a 20th century glass roof.
It is accessed through the crypt and is not usually open to the public since the café closed several years ago.
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