rood loft

It has also been stated that the Gospel and Epistle, and various other parts of the service, were read from the rood loft.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews

“Heraldic emblazonments, and religious emblems, painting and gilding, stained glass, and curiously-wrought metal work, imageries and inscriptions, rood loft and reredos, stone altar and sedilia, metal screenwork, encaustic paving, make up the gorgeous spectacle.”

From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney

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

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

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