Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apartment, vestibule, porch, or the like, before the entrance to a chapel; the narthex of a chapel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the outer part of the west end of a
chapel
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Examples
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More satisfactory is the work in the Lady Chapel and the space sometimes called the antechapel; here the old carving had been terribly mutilated by many generations of schoolboys, and the new work which has been put in is good of its kind, and distinctive in its treatment.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Thomas Perkins 1874
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a kind of antechapel or entrance porch for the Church of St. Andrew.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Thomas Perkins 1874
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Examples of such prudent leadership were found in historical narratives and contemporary portraiture of illustrious heroes, such as those executed by Taddeo da Bartolo in the antechapel of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico (1414) and by Andrea Castagno for the Villa Carducci (1450).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Please sit in the antechapel in case the children need to leave in the middle of the service.
a distant echo 2008
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Please sit in the antechapel in case the children need to leave in the middle of the service.
Yatima » 2008 » May 2008
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Rozel, and moved on to the antechapel, the Court following.
Michel and Angele — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Rozel, and moved on to the antechapel, the Court following.
Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Rozel, and moved on to the antechapel, the Court following.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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The Marquis of Lansdowne, who was a Trinity man and whose son was of Trinity, intimated to the authorities of the College that he was desirous of placing in the antechapel a statue of Milton.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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The antechapel of every college is sacredly reserved for memorials of the men of that college only; and Milton was of Christ's College.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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