Only the gargantuan Caen stone reredos survives ( minus its central spire and High Altar ) behind one of the reclaimed Caen stone and Carrera Marble altars, the front of which bears a carved representation of the Assumption of the Virgin ( presumably formerly in the Lady Chapel which would have been to the right of this space ).

As the first stage of this project, the Edwardian reredos and 17th century wood panelling were removed and the Rubens installed in their stead behind the altar in April 1964.

St Clement, Eastcheap: the reredos in May 2008In 1933 the architect Sir Ninian Comper revised Butterfield's layout, moving the organ to its original position on the west wall and reassembling the reredos behind the altar, although before he did so, he had the reredos painted with figures in blue and gold.

A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.

Shrines were always centered on some image of Christ or a saint – for instance, a statue, painting, mural or mosaic, and may have had a reredos behind them ( without a Tabernacle built in ).

* Silver reredos behind the high altar dating from the 14th century.

To the west of the chapel, behind the high altar, is a large reredos designed by Scott ; this consists of a triptych containing paintings and carvings.

Among these are a faux-tile mural behind the Chapel of Grace reredos from 1932, the mural in the Chapel of the Nativity's Adoration from 1946 showing the Holy Family with the magi and shepherds.

A reredos — a decorative structure behind the altar — was installed in 1904.

The reredos behind the High Altar, and the pulpit in the crossing, also both date from the 1830s, and were designed by german architect Carl Ludvig Engel, known in Finland for his several other highly regarded works.

A set of new stained glass windows were installed, notably a window of the crucifixon over the reredos and main altar.

The altar is framed by a massive oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of Queen Anne.

Today the 300-year-old work hangs in front of and slightly to the left of the old high altar and reredos in the Mission's sanctuary.

The church is also remarkable for its high quality fittings such as the 1783 organ by James Davis and 1810 chamber organ ( also by James Davis ) and the splendid gilded reredos or altar screen, one of the largest works of Sir Ninian Comper.

From the middle of the seventeenth century, almost all new Latin-rite altars were built against a wall or backed by a reredos, with a tabernacle placed on the altar or inserted into the reredos.

" Accordingly, altars that obliged the priest to have his back to the people have generally been moved away from the apse wall or reredos, or, where this was unsuitable, a new freestanding altar has been built closer to the people.

A fire in 1999 destroyed the original high altar and reredos paintings.

Behind the altar is a three-tiered reredos, made of red granite and jasper, nearly twenty-eight metres tall, adorned with gilded bronze statuary by Leone Leoni, and three sets of religious paintings commissioned by Philip II.

To decorate the reredos, or altar screens, the king's preferences were Michelangelo or Titian, but both of these giants were already more than eighty years old and in frail health.

During this outburst of musical jubilation the congregation's candles are extinguished, the church lights are turned on, and bells rung while the church's decorative funnings — altar frontals, the reredos, lectern hangings, processional banners, statues and paintings — which had been stripped or covered during Holy Week, are ceremonially replaced and unveiled and flowers are placed on altars and elsewhere.

For most of its existence it possessed a massive Victorian altar and reredos by Turnerelli, a Belfast born sculptor of Italian parentage.

The reredos was completely removed, leaving just the tabernacle, though the front panel of the original altar was reinstated in the new altar, which was moved to the centre of a new paved area in an expanded sanctuary.

The previous high altar and reredos were removed and are low located at Spellman's alma mater, Fordham University, in the University Church.

John Jacob Astor III continued the charitable works made by his ancestors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( in 1887 he presented it with his wife's collection of costly laces and left a bequest of $ 50, 000 ), Trinity Church ( with his brother he presented as a memorial to their father a sculptured reredos and altar costing $ 80, 000 ), and the Astor Library ( he left a bequest of $ 450, 000, bringing the family benefactions to the institution up to about to $ 1, 500, 000 ).

The reredos, the altar, the pulpit by Grinling Gibbons, originally marked on its panels with the Royal Cypher and Donum ( given ) 1683, the altar rails, the attractive marble font and its carved wood cover, are all part of the original furniture of the church.

A new roof was added in 1897 while the wooden altar was replaced by a new set of marble altar, altar rails and reredos ( all shown in the photograph above ).

The reredos and altar rails were removed, while the tabernacle was re-located.

In the Lady Chapel the walls are clad in marble and the altar reredos is a mosaic of the Virgin and Child, surrounded by a white marble frame.

The fifteenth century church tower features sculptures by Herbert Read, who also carved the oak reredos.

Other features of interest are the 14th century pulpitum and sedilia, the 15th century reredos and pyx canaopy, and the 16th century monument to John Tregonwell.

* Example of a triptych reredos, features and restoration.

The five smaller pictures below ( partly hidden by the reredos ) are: ( a ) Christ ’ s entry into Jerusalem ; ( b ) The raising of Lazarus ; ( c ) The Last Supper ; ( d ) Christ ’ s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane ; ( e ) Christ carrying His cross.

Modern glass reredos, St Matthew's Church, Millbrook | Saint Matthew's Church (" the Glass Church "), Millbrook, Jersey.

The reredos of Doric columns in yellow scagliola ( 2006 ) of the St Joseph chapel and a new altar and reredos of the Blessed Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ) are by Russell Taylor, from Russell Taylor Architects.

The Abbey has two reredos.

The renovation involved removing the galleries ; replacing the 17th-century plain windows with stained glass ; dividing the reredos into three pieces and placing the two wings on the side walls ; dismantling the woodwork to build new pews ; laying down polychrome tiles on the floor and moving the organ into the aisle.

Completed in 1880 by the architect John Loughborough Pearson, the church has an ornate Victorian interior, a carved stone reredos and screen and stained glass, adjacent to its partners, St Augustine's Primary and Secondary School.

It contains a fine altarpiece ( reredos ) carved by Kjørn from Heidal between 1781-1782.

The East End of the Cathedral, with the Ter Sanctus reredos, featuring 110 carved figures surrounding the central figure of Jesus.

His work can be seen in the London churches of St Michael Paternoster Royal and St James, Piccadilly, where he carved the wood reredos and marble font.

As with Romanesque architecture, this included sculpture as an integral part of the style, with even larger portals and other figures on the facades of churches the location of the most important sculpture, until the late period, when large carved altarpieces and reredos, usually in painted and gilded wood, became an important focus in many churches.

In 1894 the old reredos carved by Walter Gale, the village schoolmaster in 1750 was replaced.

There is a modern rood screen, a spacious and lofty central lantern, and a reredos with a carved spandrel.

In the centre of the reredos there is a carved gilded pelican ( an early Christian symbol of self-sacrifice ) and a roundel with Baroque-style angels.

The chancel stalls are carved with wild roses, the sedilia with grapes and acorns, and the reredos has a gleaming white sculpture of the Crucifixion with saints and angels under rich canopies.

The high altar reredos was carved by Nathaniel Hitch, as were the apse carvings.

Behind the altar is a wooden reredos carved by H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham based on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.

There was controversy before the church was consecrated because Bodley intended to use an early 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp which had carved tableaux of the Passion as the reredos.

The carved marble font and limewood reredos are both good examples of the work of Grinling Gibbons.

At this point its chancel was remodeled with a coffered and gilded half-dome, elaborately carved wood reredos, a chancel organ and choir benches.

The east window of the chancel and west window of the nave were added in the 15th century. The church was restored by Clapton Crabb Rolfe in 1896 ; he added the south porch, south window and north aisle The church's new reredos, altar tables, Rood and rood screen, pulpit, lectern and much new seating were carved for Rolfe by Harry Hems of Exeter.

Inside there are four stained glass windows, a 600 year old font, a carved pulpit and an altar table with a painted reredos.