charnel house

a house or place in which the bodies or bones of the dead are deposited.

Origin of charnel house

First recorded in 1550–60

The earthy moisture of the soil and undergrowth was as the odour of a charnel-house.

Haviland's Chum |Bertram Mitford
Neither must you ever show bones or guts, or any other charnel-house stuff.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) |John Ruskin
Then a tomb-maker whose talk is of the charnel-house, and who taunts her with her mortality.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 |Various
"My writing-chamber maun be like a charnel-house, then," said Lewie.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland |Various

I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.

Revolution and Other Essays |Jack London

charnel house

(esp formerly) a building or vault where corpses or bones are deposited