Retrochoir

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retrochoir \Re"tro*choir\, n. [Pref. retro- + choir.] (Eccl.
     Arch.)
     Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel;
     also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of
     the back or eastern face of the altar.
     [1913 Webster]