antechapel

[ an-tee-chap-uh l ]

/ ˈæn tiˌtʃæp əl /

a room or hall before the entrance to a chapel.

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First recorded in 1695–1705; ante- + chapel

The western bay forms the antechapel, from which we pass into the chapel itself through the original oak screen.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester|Thomas Perkins
All of this glass is quite similar to that which he installed in the antechapel of New College at Oxford.
Stained Glass Tours in England|Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
On the afternoon of the same Sunday she returned to the antechapel and witnessed a play of Plautus.
Milton's England|Lucia Ames Mead
The aisles facing her antechapel are constantly filled with a crowd of kneeling votaries.
The Pictureque Antiquities of Spain;|Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

It is contained in the antechapel, which adjoins the chapel proper on the west and opens into it.
Stained Glass Tours in England|Charles Hitchcock Sherrill