rood loft

noun

1. a gallery above a rood screen, approached from stairs, used for chantings and readings.

Example Sentences

It has also been stated that the Gospel and Epistle, and various other parts of the service, were read from the rood loft.

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The old entrance to the rood loft may be seen on the north side of the chancel arch, now blocked up.

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A memorandum in the churchwardens' accounts speak of him setting up a pair of organs on the rood loft.

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The Screen was originally the division between the rood-loft and the chapel of our Lady of Pity.

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A voice out of the rood-loft cut short the eloquent declamation.

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