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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sacramental wine, Communion wine, altar wine, or wine for consecration is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist...

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...

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...

Thompson's trademark carving on the altar rail in Kilburn Parish Church, North Yorkshire...

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...

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...

candlesticks atop the altar rail, and white mahogany pews. The sedilia, ceiling lamps, altar rail, candlesticks atop the altar rail, lectern, and casket...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

include octagonal oak skeleton pulpit, traceried stalls, wrought-iron altar rail and plain octagonal font. MEMORIALS include 2 tablets, mid C19, and 3...

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...

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'...

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...

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...