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Meaning of "reredos"
reredos (noun) - an ornamental screen or partition wall behind the altar in a church. It is commonly decorated with religious images or sculptures and serves as a focal point for the congregation during worship services
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- A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches.
- The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls.
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The wooden reredos has rich carving.
Behind the altar is a carved alabaster reredos.
There is a reredos of carved and gilded wood.
Especially notable is the magnificent stone reredos.
The reredos is made from marble.
In the chancel are a canopied reredos and a sedilia.
The reredos is carved and gilded.
Makinson carved the pinnacled reredos himself.
Above the reredos is a rose window.
The chancel has a modern reredos.
The altar reredos is a white panel made of plaster.
The apse contains a large reredos.
The reredos still stands above the altar.
In the chapel is a carved stone reredos.
A reredos is a wall or screen behind the high altar.
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The windows in the middle are obscured by the reredos.
The reredos also features arches.
Above them another cross tops the reredos.
There is a huge gilded reredos above the main altar.
Pearson also designed screens and the reredos.
The reredos has panels of marquetry depicting the crucifixion.
See photograph of the reredos below.
The reredos is elaborately carved.
Four of the panels now form a reredos in the chancel.
The reredos was protected by tarpaulins.
New pews and the pulpit and reredos were provided.
The stone reredos contains four niches with statues.
Now located behind it is a paneled reredos with three niches.
The reredos and the pulpit are decorated with carving.
It resembles in design the reredos of the churches of the same period.
A new reredos was installed and the clock in the tower was replaced.
He also painted a reredos.
The stone reredos is ornate.
The reredos seems to be a composite of salvaged pieces from different sources.
At every corner of this cloister there is a reredos with biblical representations.
The term reredos is sometimes confused with the term retable.
The floor was relaid and the reredos was removed.
The reredos is in alabaster.
The former chancel screen and the reredos are also hidden.
The reredos is decorated with motifs including garlands and roses.
Inside the church is a carved and gilded reredos and a stone pulpit.
A reredos is often wooden with niches and holds statues or paintings.
The richly gilded baroque altar and reredos in the sanctuary of the church are stunning.
The reredos consists of three bodies plus bench and attic with three streets.
Underneath the stained glass window is an intricate wooden reredos with gold and green detailing.
The reredos panelling is the work of Bell.
All the fittings have been removed apart from the reredos which consists of an arcade.
The reredos contains a carving of the Crucifixion.
JosemarÃa also often prayed before the statue that presides over the reredos of this parish.
The reredos contains five panels of mosaics by Salviati.
