reredos's Usage Examples:

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.

1517) and a fine reredos.

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.

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

It possesses a fine painted reredos.

A sculptured stone reredos by W.

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.

The Chancel with its ornate reredos is of a later design by Peter Paul Pugin in 1881.

The foreign "retable" is, therefore, what should in English be called a "reredos" (q.

) and contains a very fine carved oak reredos by Hans Bruggemann, which is regarded as the most valuable work of art in Schleswig-Holstein.

Synonyms:

altarpiece, screen,

Antonyms:

free, hide,