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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REREDOS (Anglo-Fr. areredos, from arere, behind, and dos, back)  , an ornamental See also:screen of See also:stone or See also:wood built up, or forming a facing to the See also:wall behind an See also:altar in a See also:church . Reredoses are frequently decorated with representations of the See also:Passion, niches containing statues of See also:saints, and the like . In See also:England these were for the most See also:part destroyed at the See also:Reformation or by the Puritans later; a few See also:medieval examples, however, survive, e.g. at See also:Christchurch, Hants . In some large cathedrals e.g . See also:Winchester, See also:Durham, St Albans, the See also:reredos is a See also:mass of splendid See also:tabernacle See also:work, reaching nearly to the groining . In small churches the reredos is usually replaced by a See also:hanging or See also:parament behind the altar, known as a See also:dossal or dorsal . (See also ALTAR.) For the legality of images on reredoses in the Church of England, see See also:IMAGE . The use of the word reredos for the See also:iron or See also:brick back of an open See also:fire-See also:place is all but obsolete . RESCHE1i SCHEIDECK . This Alpine pass is in some sort the See also:pendant of the See also:Brenner Pass, but leads from the upper valley of the See also:Inn or See also:Engadine to the upper valley of the See also:Adige . It is but 4902 ft. in height . Near the See also:summit is the See also:hamlet of Reschen, while some way below is the former See also:hospice of St Valentin auf der Haid, mentioned as See also:early as 1140 .

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Landeck, the See also:carriage road runs up the Inn valley to Pfunds, whence it mounts above- the See also:gorge of FinstermUnz to the See also:village of Nauders (274 m.) where the road from the Swiss Engadine falls in (532 M. from St See also:Moritz) . Thence the road mounts gently to the pass, and then descends, with the See also:infant Adige, to Mals (152 m.), whence the pass is sometimes wrongly named Malserheide . The road now descends the upper Adige valley, or Vintschgau, past See also:Meran (374 m.) to See also:Botzen (20 M. from Meran, or See also:ioo m. from Landeck) where the Brenner route is joined . (W . A . B .

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