THE NAVE
The floor and parts of the rising masonry of a circumambient
corridor crypt were also located, the crypt's longitudinal arms connected
in the east by a traverse shaft, in the west by the steps giving
access to this crypt. The floor level of the southern shaft was
- 2.45 m, that of the northern shaft, - 2.40 m to - 2.46 m.
In the middle of the transverse shaft and extending west from it
lay the relatively well-preserved rising masonry of a hall crypt
ca. 5m deep and ca. 7m wide, but the supports and vaults of this
crypt had been demolished and re-used by the builders of the
Baroque church. In the center of the western wall of this hall crypt
was an opening; behind it the masonry of a tapered shaft rose
upward at a gentle slope toward the old base of the sarcophagus of
St. Gall, which in Carolingian times stood on a higher level some
2.00 m west of the crypt. The eastern-oriented end of the sarcophagus
was thus brought in view of the visiting pilgrims.
In the middle of the east wall of the transverse shaft was an
opening and masonry of a window with splayed jambs, the existence
and location of which suggests that the choir of Gozbert's church
had no apse, but may rather have terminated in a straight wall.
