Sentence examples for high altar from inspiring English sources
noun
The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir
Other documented works include the high altar at Tallinn (1482), the high altar at Århus, Den.
The stark "Last Judgment" takes up much of the wall behind the Sistine Chapel's high altar.
Balbás designed a retable for the high altar of the Seville Sagrario in 1706.
On the left of the high altar is a chapel filled with offerings to the Virgin.
One of the cathedral's centrepieces, the sculpture by Nicolas Coustou lies on Notre Dame's high altar.
At Notre Dame, marble statuary glorifying the Bourbon kings was plonked in place of the medieval high altar.
The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III in 1163, and the high altar was consecrated in 1189.
Instead, he "whiled away the days playing dice with his soldiers on the high altar of the cathedral".
Rosamond died in or about 1176 and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar.
And they repositioned him at the high altar and this marker here is now where the remains of Bach are situated.
He oriented it northeast/southwest, with the main door and high altar on the short axis and long "transepts" ending in side-entrances.
