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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

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

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