rood loft
Americannoun
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A memorandum in the churchwardens' accounts speak of him setting up a pair of organs on the rood loft.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins
In some churches the rood loft extended across the side aisles as well, and this necessitated the erection of a specially constructed turret at the east end of one of the aisles.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
W. Delph and W. T. Gilbert, 260; re St. John Timberhill rood loft, 452; re unlawful removal of church ornaments from St. Michael-at-Coslany, 492; deprivation of living, 499.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
The beautiful high altar, the rood loft, the choir stalls, have long disappeared.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
Outside the church, near the top of the wall of a cupola-shaped finial of the rood loft turret is an old sun dial.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter
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