antechapel

[ an-tee-chap-uh l ]

/ ˈæn tiˌtʃæp əl /

a room or hall before the entrance to a chapel.

Origin of antechapel

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