muniment room

American  

noun

British.

1. a storage or display room in a castle, church, university, or the like, where pertinent historical documents and records are kept.

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Etymology

Origin of muniment room

First recorded in 1655–65

Example Sentences

It is there my father found all these fine poems, you know, up in the muniment room.'

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma

The actual circumstances have remained unknown and are only to be found in the official, but suppressed, reports of Sprot’s private examinations, now in the muniment room of the Earl of Haddington. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew

In Saxon times the porch served not only as entrance to the church, but also as courthouse and muniment room, where the Kings of Kent did justice and judgment.

From Canterbury by Danks, Canon

Against this theory, however, it might be urged that the muniment room at the angle of the south-east transept is identified as the ancient treasury.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by White, Gleeson

In the muniment room over the north porch of St. Mary Redcliffe's were several old chests filled with parchments: architectural memoranda, church-wardens' accounts, inventories of vestments, and similar parish documents.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)