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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.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2022

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.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

This panel hung for many years behind the rood screen of a small church in rural Belgium, but its current whereabouts are unknown.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018

Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring rood as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

The Warwickshire County Council says there are four roods to one acre, and 40 perches to one rood, though it can vary by locality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2010

In another setback, he found that land boundaries back then were measured in "roods" and "perches."

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2010

O labor, to despoil Some lovely forest scene, Or at the granite stratum toil, And desecrate whole roods of soil, Is vandal-like and mean!

From Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard

Tell, if you can, On which of these roods the Ruler of angels, The Savior of men suffered his death.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

In Bedfordshire it was 2 roods, in Dorset 134 perches instead of 160, in Lincolnshire 5 roods, in Staffordshire 21/4 acres.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler