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CHARNEL HOUSE (Med. Lat. carnarium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARNEL See also:

HOUSE (Med. See also:Lat. carnarium) , a See also:place for depositing the bones which might be thrown up in digging See also:graves. Sometimes, as at See also:Gloucester, See also:Hythe and See also:Ripon, it was a portionof the See also:crypt; sometimes, as at Old St See also:Paul's and See also:Worcester (both now destroyed), it was a See also:separate See also:building in the See also:church-yard; sometimes See also:chantry chapels were attached to these buildings. See also:Viollet-le-Duc has given two very curious examples of such ossuaires (as the See also:French See also:call them)—one from Fleurance (See also:Gers), the other from Faouet (See also:Finistere).

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