rood-beam

• “On the chancel arch may be seen the gaps left in the stonework where the old wooden screen once stood, also the stone brackets for the rood-beam.”

  Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

• “These received the rood-beam from which, during Lent, the Lenten curtain was suspended.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See

• “The rood usually stood on the parapet or front rail of the loft, but sometimes on a rood-beam crossing the church at some height above the loft.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See

• “Belgian, too, in character is the rood-beam, with its three figures of Our Lord in Crucifixion, of the Virgin, and of St. John; and the striking Renaissance rood-screen in black and white marble, though not as fine as some that are found in other churches.”

  Beautiful Europe: Belgium

• “St Helen's keeps its old chancel screen, but it is in a mutilated condition, for the rood-beam was taken away to be cut up into bench-ends!”

  Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

• “A very rare possession of this church is 'a portion of a Calvary, and above is an ornamental rood-beam, supported by angels; the Golgotha, carved out of the butts of two trees, is now in the tower, and is hewn and carved to represent rocks bestrewn with skulls and bones; the mortice holes for the crucifix and attendant figures remain. ”

  Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

• “Worcester cathedral - often indicate the position of the rood-beam before its removal in the sixteenth century.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “In England, also, the rood frequently stood not on or near the screen and loft, but on a separate transverse beam called the rood-beam, which was similarly carved and gilded.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “D. 1174, notices the rood-beam, which sustained a large crucifix and the images of St. Mary and St. John, as extended across the church between the nave and central tower [168-*].”

  The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.

• “(thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) is a beautiful Gothic building, famous for its belfry (1510-26) and unique rood-beam.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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