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Receiving vault, the Glossary

A receiving vault or receiving tomb, sometimes also known as a public vault, is a structure designed to temporarily store dead bodies in winter months when the ground is too frozen to dig a permanent grave in a cemetery.^[1]

11 relations: Backhoe, Body snatching, Cemetery, Chapel, Crypt, Dead house, Grave, Grave robbery, Loculus (architecture), Mausoleum, Steam shovel.
Funeral-related industry

Backhoe

A backhoe—also called rear actor or back actor—is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm.

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Body snatching

Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Chapel

A chapel (from cappella) is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small.

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Crypt

A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. Receiving vault and crypt are burial monuments and structures.

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Dead house

A dead house, deadhouse or mort house, is a structure used for the temporary storage of a human corpse before burial or transportation, usually located within or near a cemetery. Receiving vault and dead house are burial monuments and structures.

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Grave

A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral. Receiving vault and grave are burial monuments and structures.

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Grave robbery

Grave robbery, tomb robbing, or tomb raiding is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities.

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Loculus (architecture)

Loculus (Latin, "little place"), plural loculi, is an architectural compartment or niche that houses a body, as in a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Receiving vault and Loculus (architecture) are burial monuments and structures.

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Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. Receiving vault and mausoleum are burial monuments and structures.

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