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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

Coverham Enclosure, which contained 350 acres 2 roods 34 poles, was made about fifteen years ago, part with a dry stone wall, and part post and rails; nothing but the bank now remains. 

From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

Seventy-four acres, that makes two hundred and ninety-six roods.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin

The conversation turned upon public affairs; and at last they began to talk of the pulling down of the roods, which Philippa opposed, while both Frances and Isoult pronounced them idols.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt