rood loft

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It is therefore possible to obtain from these stone carvings a very good idea of how the rood looked when it was set up in the rood loft.

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Whether or no the setting up of the rood in the rood loft will ever again become customary in the English Church, is a question time alone can solve.

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Access was generally gained to the rood loft by a newel staircase cut either in the north or south wall of the chancel, and occasionally the staircase existed on both sides.

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It must not, however, be taken for granted that a rood loft existed in every church.

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Looking at examples of this period we generally find the rood loft projected a little forward over the screen, the angle thus formed being filled with groined work, springing from the protruding supports of the screen beneath.

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