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.). He was buried on the south side of 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.
