Far up over the altar, above the most beautiful reredos in all England, stood the patient Christ looking down upon him.
There are several memorial windows, of only local interest; but the pulpit and reredos are both good, the former showing the four Evangelists in canopied recesses.
The alabaster reredos and several memorial windows are worth notice; nor should visitors overlook the brass at the foot of the chancel steps to one John Kent, his wife and ten children.
Durham nave altar and rood, Mr Hope points out that at Gloucester, as at Durham, "the eastern of the two doorways between the nave and the cloister was shut off by the screen and reredos of a chapel adjoining it on the west.
When the present reredos was erected "the foundations of Abbot Horton's reredos were discovered, and an accurate plan was taken of the remains (vide illustration, p.
This reredoswas unveiled with much pomp and ceremony in 1873, and recently has been profusely gilded.
Illustration: Plan of Feretory (High Altar) as laid bare when the newReredos was erected in 1873.
The reredos should be closely examined, as it retains many of its original features--viz.
Traces of colour are to be seen in the reredos and the roof over it.
This reredos was taken down in 1807, and was for many years in the old church at Cheltenham.
Bishop Benson covered the reredos with stucco, and put up a huge gold sun in front of it.
This Johannis Lyon was the monk who made the reredos in this chapel.
The finest work of this kind in Florence is the silver reredos for the Baptistery (mentioned at p.
The Lady Chapel is very beautiful Perpendicular work; it had its own altar and reredos under the east window.
Mr Ferrey was of opinion that it may have once stood across the nave between the second piers from the east, thus forming a reredos for the western part of the nave, which was used as the church of the parish.
The east wall of the presbytery contains no window, but is occupied by a beautiful stone reredos carved with a representation of the tree of Jesse.
The reredos is much mutilated, but besides the part that is still attached to the wall, there are many loose fragments now set up on the altar.
This reredos is apparently of late Decorated date, and therefore earlier than the fifteenth-century choir.
The solid rood screen, pierced by one narrow doorway, forms an effectual division between the nave and choir, while the stone reredos and the wall above it, running right up to the vaulting, entirely separates the latter from the Lady Chapel.
The original reredos was double, with a space in the middle used as a sacristy.
He ordered the removal of the reredos in April 1874.
A great feature is the magnificent reredos behind the altar.
When erecting the reredos Scott could never have foreseen the little storm it gave rise to, just when he was half-way through with the general renovation.
Behind this reredos there is a second stone screen, which enclosed the small chapel in which stood the magnificent gold shrine studded with jewels.
The Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Rylston Road is Roman Catholic, and was designed by Pugin, who also designed the altars and reredos of the minor chapels in it.
Behind the altar at present stands a reredos of carved wood with a representation of the Crucifixion.
The reredos painting is in the early Florentine style, and represents the Resurrection.
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.
Was the alteration made in connection with the insertion of a grander reredos than had been at first provided?
The reredosbehind the high altar is carved in alabaster: it is of the latest Gothic, but certainly very fine.
The reredos over this altar has a very sweet painting of the Last Supper, the figure of our Lord being much raised above those of the apostles, and the table at which He sits being polygonal.
Executed Reredos of High Altar, Tarragona, and was one of the Junta of Architects at Gerona in A.
The closed north-west door of this transept now forms a reredosfor an altar; it has no sculpture of figures.
On the south side is a very elaborate arcaded reredos and altar, and on the west a pulpit corbelled out from the wall.
The reredos of the high altar contains sixteen paintings, enclosed within a complicated architectural framework of buttresses, pinnacles, and canopies.
The high altar has a very rich reredosexecuted for the most part in marble, and rich in sculptured subjects.
The recess thus formed at the east end shelters the altar and reredos under a panelled vault into which the canopies grow.
The grandreredos was so injured that a new one was erected.
On the opposite side of the hall, facing the altar-picture of the disfigured Jews, is a great reredosfrom the high altar of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo.
After the chapel of the Countess of Albany follows the Baroncelli or Guigni chapel, with reredos painting by Giotto, frescoes by T.
On the reredos of the altar is the Madonna painted by Cimabue, considered his masterpiece.
The high altar was sculptured by Girardon, while the painting of the Baptism of our Lord, forming the reredos of the altar, is by Mignard.
The reredos of the altar to the left represents one of the interviews between J.
After the Bardi chapel follow the Zamoyska mausoleum, with a paintedreredos by Ligozzi, and the monument to the composer Luigi Cherubini (d.
Chapel of the Castellani, with frescoes by Starnini (the ablest pupil of Giotto), and reredos by Vasari.
The fourth, or the first to the right of the high altar, is the Peruzzi chapel, with reredos by A.
The reredos of the altar at the east end of the N.
The +Madonna+ which forms the reredos of the altar is by Fra Bartolommeo.
Near him lie the remains of his favourite lady pupil, Elizabeth Sirani, who, with her master and the Caracci, executed the small paintings which adorn the frame of the reredos of the altar in this chapel.
The alabaster reredos of the altar in the chapel to the right of the high altar is by the sculptor Veyrier.
On the altar bloomed a variety of cut flowers, arranged in an artistic and fanciful manner on the steps of the reredos amidst a great profusion of white unlighted candles.
It was lighted, not only by the fire that burned in the reredos at the northern wall, but also by eight cresset-lamps and as many candles set in huge silver candelabra on the center table.
Within there are interesting fittings both of mediaeval and Renaissance date; including a carved reredos of the thirteenth century.
Some of the fittings are extremely beautiful Renaissance work, especially the reredos with folding wings.
A reredos carved in very high relief, which displays Christ at the Last Supper gesticulating and delivering an impassioned address to the Disciples, is at any rate unconventional in treatment.
Rock also quotes the reredos belonging to the Vintners' Company, representing St. Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar.
If this is white, or light coloured, the reredos hanging should be of dark or richly worked material; if the frontal is dark, the contrast should be preserved by hangings of tender shades.
The short wings of the reredos have panels and traceried openings, and, on the south, a piscina which looks almost too tiny to be real.
Their present disconnectedness can be no part of the original plan, and a reredos full of statues, which was high enough to group adequately with the rich canopies above could have been the only way to secure dignity and unity of effect.
After a while, a reredos was offered to the church, and approved by Mr J.
Till an architect is found capable of mastering so delicate a problem of proportion as such a reredos must present, we may well be content with a larger and brighter curtain.
There can, indeed, be little doubt that the ancient reredos was of tabernacle work, so as to carry on the effect of niches of the triforium storey.
A larger reredos would further enhance the peculiar charm of the east end.
We have put up a reredos in our chapel at Bradley.
He became a constant guest at the castle, and Lady Montfort presented his church with a reredosof alabaster.
The Lady Chapel is vaulted like the choir, from which it is an eastern extension, and has a superb reredos dating from the time of Henry VI.
Taken altogether, this church, with its splendid windows and richly-wrought reredos and screens, is one of the most pleasing modern churches in the country, both with regard to its architecture and its delightful situation.
The presbytery stands on a Norman crypt, and is backed by a stone reredos far exceeding in beauty the somewhat similar screens at Winchester, Southwark, and St. Albans.
Stowe-Nine-Churches, which has shared the fate of the reredos (Fig.
Part of Reredos (removed) at Stowe-Nine-Churches J.
The reredos is a representation of the four evangelists in mosaic work in four panels, enclosed in a Gothic canopy of marble.
The church ends in an apse, and has a massive stone reredos set with coloured panels representing the saints.
The reredos is of red-stained alabaster, coloured marble, and mosaics by Salviati.
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