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

Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reredos consists of five spandrels surmounted by gables, and is made of alabaster, lavishly gilt and bejewelled, inlaid with mosaic.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward