Undercroft
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above.
History
While some were used as simple storerooms, others were rented out as shops. For example, the undercroft rooms at Myres Castle in Scotland circa 1300 were used as the medieval kitchen and a range of stores. Many of these early medieval undercrofts were vaulted or groined, such as the vaulted chamber at Beverston Castle or the groined stores at Myres Castle. The term is sometimes used to describe a crypt beneath a church, used for burial purposes. For example, there is a 14th-century undercroft or crypt extant at Muchalls Castle in Scotland, even though the original chapel above it was destroyed in an act of war in 1746.
Undercrofts were commonly built in England and Scotland throughout the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. They occur in cities such as London, Chester and Southampton. The undercroft beneath the Houses of Parliament in London was rented out to the conspirators behind the Gunpowder Plot.
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ALBUMS
- Ruins of Gomorrah released: 2012
- Danza Macabra released: 2000
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My Former Glory
by: UndercroftLooking back at my former glory,
My vision once clear now clouded by fear,
The strength I used to know, not longer here
Reality's breath, blurring the sphere!
My former glory...my former glory!
When my commands were...the law!
When my whispers were...enough!
As the light fades from my eyes...tonight!
I wish myself back to my very...right!
My former glory...my former glory!
Incapacity to confront the shadows,
...reaching out for me, through me!
Ferocity, in the faces staring at me,
Silent eyes, accusing me, torturing me!
[1st solo: C. Illanes, 2nd solo: E. Belmar]
Spoken part:
"Reputation easily obtained,
Incarceration now awaits?
Acts of ferocity...animosity,
Stripped down to the bone,
Mighty power forever gone,
At the dawn of decay,
My music will no longer play,
At the dawn of decay,
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