rood loft

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

This archway seems too wide to have been the entrance to the stairs leading to the rood loft, a use which has been suggested for it.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)

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 Andrews, William

There are also remains of a mural painting of St. Christopher on the north wall, and of others on the wall above the rood loft.

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin

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 Walter, James Conway

The same writer also tells us that: "Over across the middle of the said choir was a rood loft, finely carved and gilded, and St. Chad's shrine, but destroyed in time of war."

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.