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rood beam

American  

noun

  1. a beam above the entrance to the choir or chancel of a church, supporting the rood.


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A faculty to confirm the erection of the rood loft and of the figures then on the rood beam and to authorise the placing of other figures there was refused. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

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