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Facing the altar, the reredos overwhelm the viewer's vision with rows upon rows of imposing carved saints and prophets.
But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains.
Among the main features of the interior are the magnificent rood screen, reredos and font canopy of Frosterley marble.
The Communion-table is of wood, with a vulgar-looking attempt at superaltar and reredos.
It could have been commissioned by a religious house, dedicated to the Virgin, for use as the reredos of a high altar.
Some of the larger Cathedrals have a retrochoir to the east of the high altar and separated from the sanctuary by a screen or reredos.
This sculptured limestone panel in the centre of a three-part canopied reredos was comparable in size to the Sandford reredos.
The church houses a painted wooden altar and reredos consecrated to Saint Eutrope and Saint Pardoux, representing the Visitation.
The sanctuary with its flat chevet dates from the 13th century and the altar and reredos from the 18th century.
The time-worn reredos, which represents the baptism of Christ, needs repair.
And he wanted the reredos to be a catechesis for the faithful, pointing to and emphasizing the real presence of Jesus in the tabernacle.
Inside the church you can admire a noteworthy reredos from the XVIIIth century representing the mysteries of the Rosary.
Inside is the Rubió reredos, with Italian Gothic formal features, one of the leading pictorial examples of Catalan Gothic art.
After a stroll through the attractive gardens, members visited the baroque church with its splendid reredos from Venice and Italian wall paintings.
In 1934 Bates secured work with Harold Gibbons's firm in London, England and designed a reredos, which is viewable on this web site.
The sanctuary is emphasised by marble steps, a stone reredos and an altar enriched with candlesticks and an impressive blue enamelled altar cross.
The figures in the reredos were cut flush in order to put a plaster coating on in the Reformation.
Still a fully functioning chapel with an excellent resident choir, its features include baroque reredos and wall paintings as well as the box pews and tiled flooring which date from the early 18th century.
Several works are classified: a coloured wooden figure of Christ dated from the XVIth century, a gold-coloured wooden reredos and, in the Virgo's, chapel a polychromatic statue from the XVIIth century.
Next to these we find the reredos of St. John the Evangelist, who goes along in procession together with Our Lady of Mercy and Jesus the Nazarene on Good Friday.
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On the retable at the foot of the reredos, stand two massive candlesticks of silver gilt.
Swallows fly in and out of their nests in the gold curlicues of the reredos.
At one time, before the erection of the reredos, the feretory must have been visible from the choir.
The reredos is the tree of Jesse which surrounds the Virgin with its branches.
The reredos is modern, and has some fine paintings by Rosetti.
Its reredos, now in the Museum, was from the Juliot atelier.
This reredos is in the chapel on the south of the Capella Mor.
At san juan bautista the old reredos remains, though the altar is new.
Like most Flemish productions, the reredos is wanting in grace.
The triptych which forms the reredos was carved at Ober Ammergau.
Traces of colour are to be seen in the reredos and the roof over it.
The floor has some interesting tiles and the reredos has been painted.
The reredos is modern, erected in 1899, and has some fine carving.
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