Reredos (Noun)
Meaning
A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The intricately carved reredos depicting scenes from the Last Supper hung above the altar, its gilded details gleaming in the light of the church's stained glass windows.
- In the restored cathedral, the Victorian-era reredos had been replaced with a sleek modern installation of wooden slats and concealed LED lighting.
- A painstaking process of restoration was required to bring the ancient stone reredos back to its original state after years of damage and neglect.
- A young apprentice helped his master in designing the grand reredos, painstakingly tracing and coloring each inch of its fresco surface.
- Dating from the late medieval period, the old stone church retained much of its original fabric, including its heavily decorated Gothic reredos above the sanctuary.