reredoses

If we think of the gothic revival style, by contrast, I believe our thoughts more naturally turn to visions of grand reredoses -- and we might even find our thinking instinctually limited in this way.

Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches 2009

Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

The Lenten Array bls 2009

Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

The Lenten Array Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

The church is beautifully kept, and contains some very interesting old reredoses and altars with carving in alabaster.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

There are traces of two reredoses here, both of which show traces of colour.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See

In England, prior to the Reformation, the making of tapestry was the special handicraft of the monastic houses; and their arras-work was in very great demand for reredoses, altar-frontals, antependiums, hearse-cloths, sanctuary carpets, palace wall and choir hangings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Matthew Paris records the fact that, among other ornaments which, in the reign of Henry I, Abbot Geoffrey had made for his Church of St. Albans "were three tapestry reredoses: the first a large one wrought with the finding of the body of St. Alban; the other two figured with the parables of the man who fell among thieves and of the prodigal son".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

In its polygonal chapter houses England developed a brilliant conception all its own, and almost the same might be said of the parish church, while in the designing of tombs, chantries, reredoses, choir-screens, and chancel-fittings of wood, the delicate fancy of the English had full play in the creation of a mass of exquisite sculpture and joinery that has no counterpart elsewhere.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913