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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_97723" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_97723" /> == | ||
<p> (n.) | <p> (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30490" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30490" /> == | ||
<p> is a "skull-house," or charnel; a vault stacked with bones and skulls of skeletons; as at Grantham, Hereford, Rothwell, Ripon, and [[Christchurch]] (Hants), and the Franciscan church at Evora, Portugal. | <p> is a "skull-house," or charnel; a vault stacked with bones and skulls of skeletons; as at Grantham, Hereford, Rothwell, Ripon, and [[Christchurch]] (Hants), and the Franciscan church at Evora, Portugal. A charnel chapel was built near the west end of the cathedrals of [[Worcester]] and Winchester, over a crypt devoted to the pious purpose of preserving human remains disinterred when new graves are formed. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 08:40, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
is a "skull-house," or charnel; a vault stacked with bones and skulls of skeletons; as at Grantham, Hereford, Rothwell, Ripon, and Christchurch (Hants), and the Franciscan church at Evora, Portugal. A charnel chapel was built near the west end of the cathedrals of Worcester and Winchester, over a crypt devoted to the pious purpose of preserving human remains disinterred when new graves are formed.
