rood loft
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Notice the quaint wooden gallery and the stairs to the rood loft, and also a stoup in good preservation.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
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 Charles Mackie
The nave, from the crossing to the rood loft, and part of the transepts are, undoubtedly, the oldest portions of the existing edifice.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Dugald Butler
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
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
