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

Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned.

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

Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.

From Time Magazine Archive

The space behind the reredos, with the corresponding bays of the aisles, were in the past called the lady choir.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.