Reredos: Christ Church. Bradford Near Manchester.

The reredos which has just been completed is executed in Caen stone, relieved with polished shafts of Devonshire and Derbyshire granite. The principal features are the three gablets, the middle one containing a carved panel with the words, " Do this in remembrance of Me," and the emblems of the four Evangelists, and the other two contain respectively carved panels with the words "I am the Bread of Life," and " I am tho True Vine." The panels at the side contain the Commandments. The whole has been executed by Messrs Williams, sculptors, of Manchester, from the designs of Mr. John Lowe, architect, of Manchester.

Reference           Building News 20 November 1868 page 795 and illustration