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Advent Hunstone

Other nearby churches in Derbyshire where Advent Hunstone's work may be found include the lych gate at Burbage, the reredos and high altar at Dronfield the organ cases and choirstalls at Matlock St Giles, various furnishings at Millers Dale and at Wormhill the chancel furnishings.

Bar Convent

Behind the altar is a 20th-century reredos which is topped by 18th century carved figures of Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine and Saint Gregory which support a Spanish Ivory crucifix.

Bentham, North Yorkshire

The present building was built in the 1870s by Richard Norman Shaw, and includes an ancient coffin slab dating from about 1340; the Kirkbeck Stone dating from the 17th century; a 15th-century bell hanging in the porch; and a reredos in Caen stone with marble panels.

Burton, Wiltshire

The altar is crowned with a late nineteenth century reredos, which is a Doulton terracotta panel of the Last Supper by George Tinworth.

Christ Church, Chester

The reredos in the chapel, dating from 1897, was designed by Kempe, its figures being carved by Joseph Mayer of Oberammergau.

Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool

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.

El Escorial

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.

Ernest Gillick

Figures for the reredos in Winchester College Chapel, as part of the Winchester College War Memorial (1923).

Frederick Thrupp

Thrupp executed the monument to Lady Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary in Devon; the reredos representing the Last Supper in St. Clement's, York; and the monument to Hugh Nicholas Pearson in Sonning Church, Berkshire, in 1883.

Heinz Memorial Chapel

The four figures carved in the reredos represent the saints Peter, John, Paul the Apostle, and James the Major.

Holy Trinity Chapel, Capesthorne

A mosaic reredos was added in the apse, which was manufactured by Salviati and is loosely based on Giotto's Dormition.

Mission Dolores mural

In the 2000s, archaeologist Eric Blind and artist Ben Wood of the Mission Dolores Digital Mural Project captured the first photographs of the mural, keeping the 1796 reredos intact.

New Marston

It has a statue of St Michael by Michael Groser and a reredos painted by Leon Underwood.

Patrick Procktor

In 1984 he was commissioned to paint a reredos for the St John the Baptist's Chapel in Chichester Cathedral.

St Jude's Church, Kensington

The chancel has several interesting features: the reredos is alabaster, with mosaics by Antonio Salviati, and sculpted figures of St Jude, St Peter, and St Augustine.

St Matthew's Church, Sheffield

The altar and reredos are also by Sedding with carvings by Frank Tory and a centrepiece painting of the Adoration by Nathaniel Westlake.

St Paul's Church, Brighton

The reredos was designed as a triptych; in its central panel, depicting the Adoration of the Magi scene, one of the Magi is a representation of William Morris, the artist, writer and socialist activist: Morris and Burne-Jones were friends and artistic collaborators.

St Paul's Church, Harringay

In 1932 were installed a new marble altar, marble font, and marble reredos with a statue of Christ and other stone figures, all designed by Nugent Cachemaille Day (1896–1976).

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

The building was consecrated in 1843 and the chancel with its rood screen and striking reredos was added in 1892 by the eminent church architect George Frederick Bodley who also decorated St. Luke's Chapel.

St Peter's Church, Sudbury

In the Lady Chapel the font is carved with a depiction of the Nativity, and the reredos is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.

St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester

The Lady Chapel reredos features a Madonna and Child with the inscription "Magnificat anima mea Dominum, et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deum" from the Magnificat The Lady Chapel Altar has three carved panels featuring a pelican feeding her chicks with her own blood, a Lamb holding a Shepherd's staff with the inscription "Ecce Agnus Dei" and another carved panel depicting an Eagle in flight.


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