ante-chapel

The organ played us out of chapel at length, and I waited in the ante-chapel until the pensioners took their turn to quit it.

The Newcomes 2006

The first compartment is plain, and was probably the ante-chapel: the second is ornamented with a double niche, richly decorated with small columns, pinnacles, crockets, &c.; in the lower niche the wall is pierced for a small window; the upper one probably contained a figure: the third and fourth compartments have long pointed windows, separated into two lights by a mullion.

Ely Cathedral Anonymous

THE _Screen_ dividing the choir from the ante-chapel is one of the earliest and purest examples of renaissance woodwork in this country and is no doubt the work of foreign artists (probably Italian), several having been brought over and employed by Henry VIII.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

A third kind, from Weldon in Northamptonshire, was used for the vaulting of the choir and ante-chapel, executed in 1512 and the following years.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

The nuns sat in their carved stalls within the grating whose black bars divided them from the "bride" and her friends in the ante-chapel: the chant of psalms and versicles came down from a hidden gallery, and the priest in rich vestments stood at the foot of the altar within the railing.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

These two bowls, Herodotus affirms, were removed when the temple of Delphi was burned to the ground; and now the golden one is in the Clazomenian treasury, and weighs eight talents and forty-two _minae_; the silver one stands in a corner of the ante-chapel and holds six hundred _amphorae_ (over five thousand gallons); -- this is known, because the Delphians fill it at the time of the Theophania.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

It consisted of a chancel, nave, and ante-chapel, and had a door at the west end, and east and west windows.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

A fine screen divides the chapel from the ante-chapel and some beautiful and ancient glass still exists in the south window.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

I was not to be discouraged, however, and in the end he showed me into the ante-chapel which is curtained off from the quire.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

I asked who the visitor in the ante-chapel was and was told that he was a Sir Charles Horner who owns the whole of Malford and who has presented the Order with the thirty acres on which the Abbey is built.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927