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columbarium

NOUN
  1. a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
  2. a birdhouse for pigeons
  3. a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

How To Use columbarium In A Sentence

  • As a result of the decision, Smith, who died in February, will be inurned with Air Force military honors on June 14 at the Arlington National Cemetery Columbarium.
  • The cremains can then either be buried in a cemetery, inurned in a columbarium, scattered or kept for later disposition.
  • Fresh information on Sir Edwin Lutyens's first mausoleum, the Hannen columbarium at St Mary, Wargrave, Berkshire, is provided by correspondence published here for the first time by Oliver Bradbury.
  • Hence, is that columbarium set up by the government or private?
  • Sorry, but only human remains may be inurned at the columbarium.
  • The only urn that may be used for inurning cremains in the Columbarium shall be the urn purchased from the church an urn of similar size which will fit in the niche.
  • It possesses a pigeonry much like that at Brantôme, but on a smaller scale, that wiseacres have pronounced to be a Columbarium, not for doves, but for the reception of jars containing the ashes of the dead, and have attributed this dovecote to Roman times. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
  • Cremated remains can be buried at one of our cemetery ground sites, scattered in a cremation garden, or inurned and placed in a columbarium.
  • We descended into the columbarium and squeezed in between the many many wide ladders that the temple had decided were suitable for the narrow alleyways between shelves piled with urns containing cremated remains.
  • The cemetery will inurn the cremated remains of a deceased veteran and/or spouse in a niche unit of the columbarium.
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