high altar
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"When she died she was buried beside the high altar in Kildare," she said.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
As a viewer marches down the nave toward the high altar, the apostles also come into view, on a trompe l’oeil ledge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu’s remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar at St George’s Cathedral.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2022
On September 14, 2001, speaking from the high altar of the National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.,
From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2019
Audience members saw themselves as communicants, humble supplicants at the high altar, even while Wagner was still very much flesh and blood.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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