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== History == While some were used as simple storerooms, others were rented out as shops. For example, the undercroft rooms at [[Myres Castle]] in [[Fife]], [[Scotland]], of {{circa|1300}} were used as the medieval kitchen and a range of stores. Many of these early medieval undercrofts were vaulted or [[Groin-vault|groined]], such as the vaulted chamber at [[Beverston Castle]] in [[Gloucestershire]] or the groined stores at Myres Castle. The term is sometimes used to describe a [[crypt]] beneath a [[church (building)|church]], used for burial purposes. For example, there is a 14th-century undercroft or crypt extant at [[Muchalls Castle]] in [[Aberdeenshire]] 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]], [[Coventry]] and [[Southampton]]. The undercroft beneath the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]] in London was rented to the conspirators behind the [[Gunpowder Plot]].
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