How To Use Reredos In A Sentence
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Although St George's had to be wider than it was long, he managed to create a central, square nave flanked by galleried aisles, with an apse containing a magnificent tall reredos to the east.
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Provision had evidently been made by him for keeping relics or treasures here, and, in his time, the back screen, as we now see it, and the reredos, were united together at the top, and covered with heavy stone slabs, so as to make a perfectly secure feretory.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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Behind the reredos are the chantries of Bishop Waynflete and of the great Cardinal
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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It has already been mentioned that there are doors on either side of the altar, leading to a kind of gallery or platform behind the reredos; these were designed to allow certain ceremonial compassings of the altar, and it is possible that steps led down from the platform to the ambulatory.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
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The old screen has gone, and the reredos is a restoration; the original stalls were removed as early as
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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Although St George's had to be wider than it was long, he managed to create a central, square nave flanked by galleried aisles, with an apse containing a magnificent tall reredos to the east.
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It could have been commissioned by a religious house, dedicated to the Virgin, for use as the reredos of a high altar.
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When this structure is ornamented with panels and enriched with niches statues, buttresses, and other decorations, which are often painted with brilliant colours, it is called a "reredos".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Among the main features of the interior are the magnificent rood screen, reredos and font canopy of Frosterley marble.
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The reredos is a magnificent erection, and renders the east end of this cathedral one of the most dignified in the kingdom.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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In some churches the importance of the Laudian altar was further emphasized by the addition of an elaborate new reredos.
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The reredos is a representation of the four evangelists in mosaic work in four panels, enclosed in a Gothic canopy of marble.
The Kensington District The Fascination of London
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Additional options include erecting a sizable ornamental canopy or baldachin over the tabernacle, or setting the tabernacle within the apsidal wall or against the backdrop of a decorated reredos.
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: "Concerning the Central Placement and Noble Design of Tabernacles..."
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All of it is mentioned elsewhere in this book, and it is sufficient here to say that the erection of Sir G. Scott's choir-screen and the restoration of the reredos are the most noticeable "modern" features, though the latter was carried out on the old lines as nearly as was thought advisable.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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The sanctuary is emphasised by marble steps, a stone reredos and an altar enriched with candlesticks and an impressive blue enamelled altar cross.
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The stalls in the chancel and the reredos were elaborately carved.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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Considerably more remarkable than the altar paintings are the reredoses or retables of carved and gilded wood (talha dourada) into which the paintings were inserted.
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At the back of the reredos is a brass to Mr. Bailey, M.P. for the county, whose bust formerly stood here, but was removed to a more fitting position in the county hall.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains.
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Beyond the space at the back of the reredos is the Early English Lady Chapel with an interesting series of wall paintings depicting the story of our Lady.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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After a stroll through the attractive gardens, members visited the baroque church with its splendid reredos from Venice and Italian wall paintings.
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Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern.
The Cathedral
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The covering for the reredos is the same as in the old photo.
The Lenten Array
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The reredos contains two modern designs in alto-relievo.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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The Communion-table is of wood, with a vulgar-looking attempt at superaltar and reredos.
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The reredos is the first example in modern cathedral work of the elaborate style of decoration for the most holy part of the sanctuary, which is now not uncommon.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
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Facing the altar, the reredos overwhelm the viewer's vision with rows upon rows of imposing carved saints and prophets.
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This sculptured limestone panel in the centre of a three-part canopied reredos was comparable in size to the Sandford reredos.
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The feretory no doubt had a reredos at this point, but what the type of this earlier arrangement may have been it is impossible exactly to tell.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
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One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm; (the religious houses and manor-places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personage;) but each made his fire against a reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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Additional options include erecting a sizable ornamental canopy or baldachin over the tabernacle, or setting the tabernacle within the apsidal wall or against the backdrop of a decorated reredos.
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: "Concerning the Central Placement and Noble Design of Tabernacles..."
