ante-chapel
(ˈæntiːtʃæpəl)
Also 8 anti-.
[f. ante- + chapel.]
‘A term used in the Universities for the outer part at the west end of a chapel.’ Parker Gloss. Arch. 1875.
| 1703 Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 99 In a kind of Anti-Chappel to this Church. 1761 T. Warton Bathurst 190 (T) The ante-chapel of Trinity College Chapel. 1814 Wordsworth Excurs. Wks. VIII. Pref. 10 The same kind of relation..as the ante-chapel has to the body of a Gothic church. |