ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum [Lat.], sacristy;
sacrarium † ; communion table, holy table, Lord's table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery,
font; piscina † , stoup; aumbry † ; sedile † ; reredos; rood loft, rood screen.
[parts of a church: list] chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt,
golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo † , lectern, reading desk,
confessional, prothesis † , credence, baldachin, baldacchino † ; apse, belfry; chapter house;
presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum [Lat.], jube † ; mourner's bench,
mourner's seat.
[exterior adjacent to a church] cloisters, churchyard.
monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.
Adj. claustral, cloistered; monastic, monasterial; conventual.
Phr. ne vile fano [It]; there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple [Tempest].
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