| Two great piers were inserted in the martyrium to support the raised choir. |
| To support the vaulting of this ambulatory a new wall was built round the martyrium. |
| A martyrium was a building erected on a spot with particular significance, often over the burial of a martyr. |
| And after the people the bishop enters, and goes at once within the rails of the cave of the martyrium. |
| This was intended to make the martyrium, as the depository of the treasure and the Veil, safe from all accidents. |
| The existence of a church in the forum courtyard of Lincoln and the martyrium of Saint Alban on the outskirts of Roman Verulamium are exceptional. |
