Neither o nor 0 is crossed in the architectural lettering - that's the letter Ø. There's a few other non-modern-English letters in that initial alphabet line as well.
That's pretty close to what we were taught in my high school mechanical drafting class back in the late 80's. I remember being told that it was designed (e.g. big openings on the A) to survive being reduced to microfilm and back.
Chancery cursive was used for English government records. It's a speed form, not a decorative one. There are computer fonts for it, but they seldom capture the original look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_lettering
We learned that in primary school back in the 90s.
EDIT: I'm also surprised that in the "architectural lettering" example you provided, it's 'o' that's crossed, as opposed to '0'.