sacrarium

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From her seat on the sacrarium, the Queen time & again interrupted her seldom-failing smile to dart anxious glances at her daughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alt′ar-rails, rails separating the sacrarium from the rest of the chancel.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Eventually, the Pope resolved that it should be a sacrarium, or cabinet for holy things, and that this should stand above the middle entrance door to the church.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

The sacrarium of San Stefano is paved with a mosaic of marbles from the Villa Jovis, and the chapel of St. Michael is erected out of a Roman building which occupied its site.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

A stone screen now surrounds the sacrarium on three sides.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by Eley, C. King