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A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records. [1] [2] The sacristy is usually located inside the church, but in some cases it is an annex or separate building (as in some ...
A silver cross stolen from a church 30 years ago has been mysteriously returned after it was left on the doorstep of a retired verger. The altar cross was taken in 1994 from the sacristy room of ...
The chapel consists of the church, a small sacristy built on the side of the church, and which has a door to the outside, and a small room above the sacristy, which was intended as private quarters for the priest who took charge of the chapel. From the construction materials, including a steel beam, it is evident that the sacristy and the room ...
A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry". At their height, the vestries were the only form of local government in many places ...
The King Charles III Sacristy – a £13 million entrance lobby – will give Westminster Abbey tourists the chance to step through the Great West Door. Queen patron of Abbey building work which ...
The church consists of a complex featuring a nave with two side corridors surmounted by tribunes; a Room of Saints (Casa dos Santos) a large patio with galleys, a large sacristy behind the high altar. The entrance hall has a collection of paintings depicting the life of Saint Francis by Bento José Rufino Capinam (1791–1874).
Adjoined to Blessed Sacrament Church, at the southernmost wall of its transept, is the only remaining building from the New St. Joseph’s Cathedral (demolished in 1976). [17] It housed the Cathedral’s sacristy on the main floor and its boiler plant in a cavernous basement. The Sacristy Building is a 3,000 square foot single-story. [17]
The Vasari Sacristy (Italian - Sacrestia del Vasari) or Old Sacristy (Italian - Sacrestia Vecchia) is a room in Sant'Anna dei Lombardi, Naples, Italy, one of its two sacristies. It was the refectory of the Olivetan monastery of Santa Maria di Monteoliveto [ 1 ] until 1688, when it was converted to its current role.