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beginning with Edward's reforms the table for"God's board" or Communion Table was to be nothing like a "Romish altar of abomination"
even where the stone altar was not removed a wooden table was prefered
but the more Catholic - oriented ( or the more aesthetic) would have prefered the old stone altar
and with the Oxford Movement stone and "facing God" altars ( rather than versus populi, facing the people) became more the rule than exception
many' hyper- evangelical" Reformed-minded Anglican clergy would use the wooden table and would stand at the north end rather than behind or ( far worse) in front of the Communion Table
Current Anglican practices, custom and liturgical law permit free-standing stone or wooden altars or communion tables as well as attached-to- the wall altars of many types--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Stephen Morris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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