Large ornamented wall, screen, or other structure placed behind the altar in a Christian church.
Restoration style
Architectural style popular during the reign of King Charles II of England (1660–1685)
Resurrectionists
Those who exhumed the bodies of the recently deceased during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide cadavers to anatomists for their research.
Retable
Redirected to reredos.
Revenant
Spirit of a dead person returned to visit the living, the common conception of a ghost.
Rhenish Tower, Lynmouth
Grade II listed folly built on the sea front at Lynmouth, Devon in about 1860.
RHS Garden Bridgewater
The Royal Horticultural Society's first new garden since 2003, opening in 2020 in Worsley, in the City of Salford.
Rhubarb Triangle
Forced rhubarb growing area in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell.
Ricarius
French monk (c. 560 – c. 645) venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, who spent some time in England attempting to ransom French prisoners.
Richard Dadd
English painter of the Victorian era , noted for his depiction of fairies and other supernatural subjects. Most were completed while he was an inmate of Bedlam and Broadmoor lunatic asylums.
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