antechapel

American  

[an-tee-chap-uhl] / ˈæn tiˌtʃæp əl /

noun

1. a room or hall before the entrance to a chapel.

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Etymology

Origin of antechapel

First recorded in 1695–1705; ante- + chapel

Example Sentences

In the antechapel is a four light window.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

The western bay forms the antechapel, from which we pass into the chapel itself through the original oak screen.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

He lies in the beautiful antechapel of the college: but no monument marks his grave.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The original had existed, according to the dead Ferlini's notes, on the wall of an antechapel in one of the most ruinous pyramids at Mer�e, decorated in a peculiarly barbaric Ethiopian style.

From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

All of this glass is quite similar to that which he installed in the antechapel of New College at Oxford.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock