Sentence:  ... the imperfect light entering by their narrow casements showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust. All these <WSD>relics</WSD> gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.