A charnel house (Med. Lat. carnarium) was a place for depositing the bones which might be thrown up in digging graves. Sometimes, as at Gloucester, Hythe and Ripon, it was a portion of the crypt; sometimes, as at Old St Paul's and Worcester (both now destroyed), it was a separate building in the church-yard; sometimes chantry chapels were attached to these buildings. Gloucester (pronounced ) is a city in south-west England, close to the Welsh border. ... There are several places named Hythe: In England: Hythe, Kent (a large village) Hythe, Hampshire (a town) Hythe End a village, now part of Staines In Canada: Hythe, Alberta (a village in Canada) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Ripon is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, 214 miles NNW from London. ... In medieval terms, a crypt (from the Latin crypta and the Greek kryptē) is a stone chamber or vault, usually beneath the floor of a church, usually containing tombs of important people such as saints or saints relics. ... The city of Worcester (pronounced ) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ... Chantry is a shrine or chapel where someone had paid an endowment to have the monks say (or chant) prayers on a fixed schedule for someone who had died. ...

Viollet-le-Duc has given two very curious examples of such ossuaires (as the French call them), one from Fleurance (Gers), the other from Faouet (Finistere). Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (Paris, January 27, 1814 - Lausanne 1879) was a French architect, famous for his restorations of medieval buildings. ...

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