Retro-choir - The space behind the high altar in a major church.
Return - The side or part which falls away, usually at right angles, from the front or direct line of a structure.
Retro-choir - the area immediately behind the high altar.
Rood - a cross erected at the entry to the chancel. Roods often had figures of the Virgin Mary on one side and St. John on the other.
Neither does there appear in the retro-choir of Chichester, begun about the time William of Sens went back to France, any evidence that his work had established a dominating precedent; here the work is of a distinctively native cast, ...
 See also: Ornament, Church, Arch, Ambulatory, Chevet
  
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