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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Template" content="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\html.dot"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>zretable</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080"> <p><a href="http://ww.suffolkchurches.co.uk/zglossindex.htm"><img src="zgloss.gif" border="0" width="190" height="53"></a></p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Retable. Like a <a href="zreredos.htm">reredos</a>, a retable is a screen behind an <a href="zaltar.htm">altar</a>. However, it also has a shelf on it, for a row of candles, a cross, etc. Very few survived the wrath of the Anglican reformers in the 1540s, and any pre-Reformation ones are not likely to be in their original church. That is certainly the case with Suffolk's most famous one, that at <a href="thornhamentry.htm">Thornham Parva</a>, which, ironically, has lost its shelf, which is now in the Mus閑 de Cluny in Paris. <p>The <a href="zanglocatholic.htm">Anglo-catholic</a> movement of the late 19th and early 20th century held that a row of 6 candles behind the altar was essential, and their churches all had to have retables. There is an excellent one from the 1890s, still in use for its original purpose, at <a href="stbartholomewipswich.htm">Ipswich St Bartholomew</a>.</p> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </body> </html>