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unusual facts about altar rails



All Saints Cathedral, Chicago

The hand carved altar rails, now removed, had portrayed The Passion of the Christ through such powerful symbols as palm, snake, wheat, fish, bread baskets, money bags, chalice, reed and rooster.


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Brosna, County Kerry

The marble altar rails are much younger and were donated by Denis Guiney in 1946, in memory of his parents Cornelius and Julia Guiney (this is the Denis Guiney who began Clerys store in Dublin).

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

He soon appointed his Provost-Marshall, William Dowsing, as a paid iconoclast, touring the churches of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire destroying all "Popish" and "superstitious" imagery, as well as features such as altar-rails.

St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh

A new pulpit, altar and altar rails were added, which were made by Gillow.