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An ancient Roman shrine or sanctuary in a temple or private house holding sacred objects.

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  • It is as low as washing your hands in the sacrarium.
  • A stone screen now surrounds the sacrarium on three sides.
  • It spans the whole of the choir, and is continued along the sides of the sacrarium, forming sedilia of four seats on either side.
  • When he wrote, the proposal was to replace Walsingham's stalls in the octagon, and to make Bishop Hotham's three Decorated bays into a sacrarium, and so presumably...
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