Editing Sanctuary (section)

====Church sanctuary====
{{Main|Right of asylum#Medieval England}}
A sacred place, such as a church, in which fugitives formerly were immune to arrest (recognized by English law from the fourth to the seventeenth century).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wun.ac.uk/wun/events/view/sanctuary-violence-and-law-late-medieval-england|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826093803/http://www.wun.ac.uk/wun/events/view/sanctuary-violence-and-law-late-medieval-england|archive-date=26 August 2014|title=Sanctuary, Violence, and Law in Late Medieval England - Virtual seminar (abstract)|date=24 May 2010|website=Worldwide Universities Network}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mortimer |first=Ian |date=2009 |title=[[The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England]]| publisher=Vintage Books |pages=244–245|isbn=978-1-84595-099-6}} [https://archive.org/details/timetravellersgu0000mort_p5o4 Text available on loan via registration]</ref> While the practice of churches offering sanctuary is still observed in the modern era, it no longer has any legal effect and is respected solely for the sake of tradition.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hanna |first=Jason |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/17/us/immigrants-sanctuary-churches-legality-trnd/index.html |title=Can churches provide legal sanctuary to undocumented immigrants?|publisher=CNN|date=2017-02-17 |accessdate=2022-05-09}}</ref>

The term 'sanctuary' is also used to denote the [[Church (building)|part of the church]] which contains the main, or "high altar".