What's the difference between undercraft and undercroft?
Undercraft
Definition:
(n.) A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors.
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Undercroft
Definition:
(n.) A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.
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(1) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(2) It was Lansley who had the audacious idea of opening up the station's undercroft - once used to store barrels of beer that were brought down in their hundreds of thousands by goods trains from Burton-on-Trent - to create a visual connection and passenger link between this vast basement and the newly restored iron-and-glass arched roof so very high above it.
(3) Objections have been plentiful ranging from English Heritage to the community of skateboarders who for decades have been drawn to the complex's smooth concrete undercrofts.
(4) The Queen has given permission for Tony Benn to become the second politician in history – after Margaret Thatcher – to rest in parliament's chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the eve of his funeral.
(5) It is hard to believe that all this might not have existed, as you walk into St Pancras today through brand new gothic doors and enter the station's previously unseen undercroft, the former storage basement with its 800 Victorian iron pillars, where the Eurostar ticket-machines, check-in points and security controls are today, before riding long, silent escalators up to the trains basking beneath Barlow and Ordish's glorious roof.
(6) Plans to replace the Undercroft space with new arts venues and retail outlets were scuttled after public outcry.
(7) He said the graffiti in the South Bank undercroft used by skateboarders added “social communal value” to the space.
(8) Eurostar platforms and undercroft aside, works include a new concrete station beneath St Pancras for the Bedford to Brighton services, connecting the terminus with Luton and Gatwick airports; a modernised and vastly extended London Underground station at King's Cross St Pancras; new regional train platforms for the Midland main line and future services, aboard Japanese-built "bullet trains", to Stratford and Kent; the restoration and extension of Scott's hotel into a five-star Marriott Renaissance; the construction of a new gothic wing by Richard Griffiths and RHWL architects as an extension to the hotel; and flats in the upper floors of the old Midland Grand converted by the Manhattan Loft Corporation.
(9) A common walkway passes through the Eurostar undercroft.
(10) Citing the success of the recent Long Live Southbank campaign to preserve the skate park, as backed by Boris Johnson , Cooper says graffiti adds “social communal value” to the Undercroft space – though he is quick to point out that the mayor’s office are in no rush to change the law.