The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination...
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Nora at the Altar-Rail is a one-act opera by Jay Anthony Gach, to a libretto by Royce Vavrek. The libretto is based on the Book of Genesis and inspired...
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An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines...
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Rood screen (redirect from Altar-screen)
the 6th century the altar of Christian churches would have been in full view of the congregation, separated only by a low altar rail around it. Large churches...
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Roman Catholic churches, the altar rail has usually been retained and communion is usually served kneeling at the altar rail similar to a Tridentine Mass...
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Sacramental wine (redirect from Altar wine)
Sacramental wine, Communion wine, altar wine, or wine for consecration is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist...
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beyond the altar rail, and for that reason, no doubt, hundreds of young colored men who would otherwise be officiating at the altar rail today have entered...
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be a sacred space representing the stages on the way of salvation. The altar rail, originated the point for receiving Holy Communion, came to represent...
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Thompson's trademark carving on the altar rail in Kilburn Parish Church, North Yorkshire...
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in front of the altar. The rail had carvings of saints. At the rear of the original high altar was a stylobate with a reredos, or altar screen, measuring...
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gold. The original balustered white-marble altar rail complements the white marble of the many-tiered altar behind and above it and serves the additional...
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candlesticks atop the altar rail, and white mahogany pews. The sedilia, ceiling lamps, altar rail, candlesticks atop the altar rail, lectern, and casket...
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same time the interior was radically modified to remove two side altars, a long altar rail, and a select portion of iconography. The lighting of the church...
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149. Methodist preachers invited them to come forward and kneel at the altar rail... Airhart, Phyllis D. (26 February 1992). Serving the Present Age: Revivalism...
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secretly, such as at the Hundskirke (which translates as dog church or dog altar), a triangle-shaped Communion rock in a ditch between crosses in Paternion...
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The corrugated interior was then covered with plasterboard and the altar and altar rail were constructed from concrete left over from work on the barriers...
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font, a piscina, carved bench ends from the 1540s, a late 17th-century altar rail, and several 18th-century memorials. Grade I listed buildings in North...
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windows. The altar, the pulpit, the altar rail, and the window frame are all made of Finnish soapstone. The central motif of the altar is a cross, on...
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Council, parts of the altar rail needed to be removed, some statues were taken away and a small altar table was placed before the high altar. On the 14 September...
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is the sundial. Inside, the bells date from the 14th century, and the altar rail is 16th century. The font is Norman, with a carved base. The west window...
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placed on either side of the presbytery, where they can be seen from the altar rail. These are The Last Supper and The Jews in the desert (which shows them...
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rest of the chancel, including on the choir stalls, altar rail, and kneeling rail. The altar rail also has a bronze grill flanked by oak carvings of angels...
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example of Byzantine architecture, as are the columns, the tiles on the altar rail and all the abundant mosaics. Most impressive is the representation of...
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altar rail, separating the area around the altar from the rest of the church. This practice is meant to convey the sanctity associated with the altar...
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organ, as well as a new altar and altar rail, a new choir vestry, a new credence table, and a new prayer desk. The altar rail in the new chapel was made...
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include octagonal oak skeleton pulpit, traceried stalls, wrought-iron altar rail and plain octagonal font. MEMORIALS include 2 tablets, mid C19, and 3...
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church are the original simple pews and finely carved altar rail. Three rooms behind the altar once provided living quarters for the priest whenever he...
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reset in the 19th-century with a reset 13th-century cusped head. On the altar rail can be found a small carved mouse, the trademark of Robert 'Mouseman'...
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rose window The cathedra, newer high altar, pulpit, altar rail, and the ciborium Iron reja The older high altar and the image of the Immaculate Conception...
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him. Oglethorpian anniversaries have since led to the donation of the altar rail at All Saints' by a ladies charity in Georgia. In 1996, then Georgia Governor...
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