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The team also recovered well-preserved painted sculptures and many pieces of the medieval rood screen, which once divided congregants from clergy until it was demolished under Louis XIV.

There’s another reference that says a clock was installed above the rood screen of a church.

The last plot for Holy Rood — “rood” means “cross” in Scottish — was sold in 1915.

Visitors wander around the cathedral, many craning their necks to take in the details of the roof or the dominating rood screen.

Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.