reredos

But with the church font, pews, reredos and pulpit all having now been removed, Network Rail has stepped in to offer a more prominent display area.

Just as church images were arranged on multi-story structures behind altars (reredos or retablo), home images were enshrined in cases called urna.

These are beautiful, delicate pieces and in his obituary in The Guardian Peter Wakelin remarks that 'Roper's bronze panels of Welsh flowers mounted on the medieval reredos of the Lady Chapel (1964) are one of his most touching works.' (2) Roper's art was not usually as delicate, despite its intricacy and subtlety, and Wakelin (later Secretary of the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales and Director of Collections & Research at The National Museum of Wales) wrote: 'His figure sculptures are expressively distorted, showing deep sympathy with medieval art, as well as admiration for Henry Moore.

2.15pm - David North from Little Leigh talks about plans for setting up the Jabez Thompson Heritage Centre near Thompson's spectacular terracotta reredos of the Last Supper in Little Leigh, Northwich.

A scheme of astonishing sumptuousness, it includes a solid silver altar front and reredos as well as painted decoration and glass.

The third variant draws the reader into considering a synecdoche of the church, usually an architectural feature such as bells, belfries, organs, stained glass, brass or marble monuments, the reredos, the altar, rood screens, and corbels, but occasionally something more synecdochally remote, such as a vicarage or the Book of Common Prayer.

The Navarran Reconquista of the early twelfth century is memorialized in many Navarran churches with one of the imageries of James the Greater, the patron of Spain, known as Santiago Matamoros (St James the moor killer), slaying a Muslim, such as to be found in a reredos of a side chapel in Pamplona Cathedral (Photograph 1).

OPPOSITE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The marble reredos on the altar of Saint Michael and the Arch Angels helped set the modern theme the bride had in mind.

Inside, you will see a beautiful colonial reredos behind the altar and a huge sculpture of the Hapsburg coat of arms on the wall.

This calls to mind many of the reredos and retablos in homes and churches in Mexico and the American southwest.

St Mary's Church, Clydach, is one of the most imposing and architecturally accomplished Gothic style churches in South Wales but its detailed construction, which includes stained glass and a remarkable reredos, needs major repair.

Here there are four screens displayed in a row between the altar and the carved 18th Century reredos or backscreen.