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

The piers at the chancel entrance contain the staircases leading to the roofs and formerly to the rood loft.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.

He died August 8, 1369, and was buried in the cathedral, before the rood loft.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by Quennell, C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne)

The beautiful high altar, the rood loft, the choir stalls, have long disappeared.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

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 Mackie, Charles

The rood loft turret and staircase remain in the south abutment of the chancel arch.

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin