Reredos

That's what hangs on the wall over the altar...sometimes cloth/art;
sometimes painted/art; other times fancy carved stonework like at St.
Thomas, Fifth Avenue, NYC. 


Camille Agricola Bowman
Easement Technical Advisor
Tidewater Region Preservation Office
Department of Historic Resources
14415 Old Courthouse Way
Newport News, Virginia 23608
Tel: 757-886-2807 (NOTE: New Number)
Fax: 757-886-2808

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth Barton
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] St. John's is missing its Rerdo

We useta have one but one time Grandpa fell in it so we filled it in,
afta we fished him out, and built us one a them fancy "indoor
outhouses", doncha know.

Anyway, you can tell I have no idea what the deuce a rerdo is, nor if we
have one or not.  Please enlighten me.  Ruth





At 11:17 PM -0400 10/26/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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Cathedral St.John
used to have a Rerdo;but Cramm (Ralph Adams) took it down when the
interior architecture  went from Romanesque to Gothic it faced the
Narthex ...and it took a codex  read by a priest in spandex to get it
indexed where you can google it on pixnex .......the problem is isn't
the high alter supposed to face east ??? or is it placed in the east so
the parishoners face east?; I know in Christian burials you bury the
body facing east; and in Masonic ritual the master of the lodge sits in
the east; and Mao always went on about the East (said it was red and so
on) I used to live on East 10th near the Russian baths; It was east but
it wasn't red and  my commode  (which was also my library)  faced
east...
..the redo by the way faced west
but was located in the east near the high alter; maybe Ruth has a rerdo
and can't see the Narthex ?? maybe thats the whole problem in a nutshell
........Py

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