UNIDENTIFIABLE FEATURES
No longer identifiable owing to disturbance by work later than
Gozbert, or else inaccessible to excavation, were: location and
shape of the nave arcades of Gozbert's church, their foundations
and rising masonry having been cleared away for re-use in the
Baroque church, as well as supports and vaults of the hall crypt
which were demolished, then renewed by the builders of the
Baroque church. Nor was it possible to determine the position of
Gozbert's high altar, for the terrain west of the sarcophagus of St.
Gall was heavily disturbed by service channels associated with
mechanisms of the Baroque organ. Dr. Sennhauser thinks it possible
that the Carolingian high altar might have been located east of the
tomb of St. Gall on the elevated floor level supported by the vaults
of the crypt.
Lack of access permitted no determination of the foundations of
the eastern crossing piers (if they ever existed) which would have
lain in the substructure of the Baroque choir stalls. The outer surface
of the east wall of the transverse shaft of the corridor crypt, and
the foundations of the apse of Gozbert's church, if there were one,
also lay in terrain unable to be explored because of the superincumbent
high altar and sacristy of the present church.
