एक चित्रित या नक्काशीदार स्क्रीन एक वेदी या कम्युनियन तालिका के ऊपर और पीछे रखी गई

Noun:

(गिर्जा में) वेदी के पीछे दीवार पर डाला हुआ अलंकृत आवरण, रेरेडॉस,

reredos's Usage Examples:

' Ec. 297; 6 P.C. 435), the Exeter reredos case, the privy council, reversing the bishop's judgment, allowed the structure, which contained sculptures in high relief of the Ascension, Transfiguration and Descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, together with a cross and angels; in R.

Often there is a reredos behind it; it is also fenced in by rails to preserve it from profanation of various kinds.

But in the middle ages the altars were placed against the east wall of the churches, or else against a reredos erected at the east side of the altar, so as to prevent all access to the table from that side; the celebrant was thus brought round to the west side and caused to stand between the people and the altar.

This baldachin, called liturgically the ciborium, is sometimes hung from the roof by chains in such a way that it can be lowered or raised; sometimes it is fixed to the wall or reredos; sometimes it is a solid structure of wood covered with metal or of marble supported on four columns.

It possesses a fine painted reredos.

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The church of St Peter, erected about 1too and renewed in the Gothic style in the 15th century, has a lofty steeple (365 ft.) and contains a very fine carved oak reredos by Hans Bruggemann, which is regarded as the most valuable work of art in Schleswig-Holstein.

The foreign "retable" is, therefore, what should in English be called a "reredos" (q.v.), though that is not in modern usage a movable feature.

1517) and a fine reredos.

A sculptured stone reredos by W.

reredos's Meaning':

a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

Synonyms:

altarpiece, screen,

Antonyms:

free, hide,