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What is a reredos?

What is a reredos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
  2. The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls.
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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.
This sculptured limestone panel in the centre of a three-part canopied reredos was comparable in size to the Sandford reredos.
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.
Inside is the RubiĆ³ reredos, with Italian Gothic formal features, one of the leading pictorial examples of Catalan Gothic art.
Among the main features of the interior are the magnificent rood screen, reredos and font canopy of Frosterley marble.

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