Word: undercroft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point for the effigies came during World War II, when the basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...
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