sacellum

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The other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites. 

From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew

On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde