reredos
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To prepare for the abatement, all open surfaces in the church must be covered, including the pipe organ on the balcony and the high altar, or reredos, which holds the tabernacle.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2018
Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The great reredos at Winchester does not sing in greater ecstasy than the marble symphony which he has built in the chancel of St. Thomas's."
From Time Magazine Archive
A similar arrangement can still be seen in Westminster Abbey, where the shrine of Edward the Confessor stands behind the reredos.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
