sacristy

IPA: sˈækrʌsti

A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.

Examples of "sacristy" in Sentences

A sacristy is a room where sacred vessels and vestments are kept.
In the sacristy is a horrid and appropriate image of the bad thief.
The sacristy was a jumble of prayer books, vestments, broken rosaries, crucifixes, and pictures.
ALLEN: Well, he is in a room called the sacristy, which is, if you like, the prep room for priests before the mass.
The old sacristy, which is full of him -- for indeed all the decorative work seems to be his -- is one of the first buildings of the Renaissance, the beautiful work of Filippo Brunelleschi.
GRACE: That mannequin representing 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, a nun, one of the most defenseless and innocent among us, murdered in the sacristy, which is a little room off of the altar.
The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life.
Gilded wooden candlesticks are brought out from behind some altar or secret cupboard; a shabby, painted image of the Virgin or some other saint is produced from the sacristy, which is hastily draped in gorgeous finery, a necklace of beads adjusted round its neck; artificial flowers dusted and arranged in gay-looking vases; the candles are then lighted, and -- up goes the curtain!