sacristy
(ˈsækrɪstɪ)
[a. F. sacristie, a. med.L. sacristia, f. sacrista sacrist.]
The repository in a church in which are kept the vestments, the sacred vessels and other valuable property.
| [1630 Wadsworth Further Observ. Pilgr. 6 Betweene this house and the high Altar stands the Sacristia, within which is the Custodia of the holy Eucharist (as they call it). 1644 Evelyn Diary 8 Nov., Through this we went into the Sacristia, where..one of the Order preach'd.] 1656 Blount Glossogr. a 1668 R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) II. 93 In the Sacristy of this church I saw the chains in which St. Peter was fettered. 1845 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 630 The Lübekers took the confiscated church treasures out of the sacristies. 1846 Ecclesiologist Jan. 5 Sacristies, or, as they are more usually called now, Vestries. Ibid. 6 The proper situation of a Sacristy is on the north side of the chancel, towards its eastern part. |