muniment room
a storage or display room in a castle, church, university, or the like, where pertinent historical documents and records are kept.
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How to use muniment room in a sentence
The upper part above the porch proper contains, as mentioned above, a lofty chamber, probably originally the muniment-room.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory | Thomas PerkinsThe instance is taken from a map of the manor of Edgeware now in the All Souls muniment room.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry TawneyThese marks were noted in a variety of documents, belonging to the Corporation, one preserved in their muniment room.
A Comprehensive History of Norwich | A. D. BayneChatterton pretended to have found these among the contents of an old chest in the muniment room of St. Mary Redcliff's.
From Chaucer to Tennyson | Henry A. BeersThe upper storey, which until recently was used as the muniment room, was originally the chapel of St. Chad's Head.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield | A. B. Clifton
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