The chancel has an 1832 Gothic reredos by Charles Barry. The chancel was dominated by a black walnut reredos. The screen, retable or reredos are commonly decorated. Many altars have both a reredos and a retable. Above the reredos Travers added a painted and gilded rood. There is a huge gilded reredos above the main altar. Above the altar is the reredos, of glazed earthenware. The high altar stone reredos are by John Loughborough Pearson of 1899. Moore designed the High Altar reredos, installed in 1898. The term "reredos" is sometimes confused with the term "retable". This is in the form of a reredos behind the chapel altar. The original reredos and high altar were destroyed by bombing in 1940. The backings for the altars in churches (reredos) can be embedded with niches for statues. The reredos within the chapel were commissioned from Henry Poole in 1927. The chapel extends to the reredos and is high at the vault bosses.