rood-loft

But in my dreams of Combray (like those architects, pupils of Viollet-le-Duc, who, fancying that they can detect, beneath a Renaissance rood-loft and an eighteenth-century altar, traces of a Norman choir, restore the whole church to the state in which it probably was in the twelfth century) I leave not a stone of the modern edifice standing, I pierce through it and

Swann's Way

In the year 946, during the reign of Cynan ap Elisap Anarawd, King of Gwynedd North, there was a Christian temple at Harden, and a rood-loft, in which was placed an image of the Virgin Mary, with a very large cross in her hands, which was called “holy rood.”

The Grand Old Man

From stone walls and lofty, arched roof, from rood-loft and transept arcades, the echoes flew and rebounded, and the candles that had stood so still and tall shook and guttered in the gale.

The Pilgrim of Hate

It was a lofty stone wall, against which stood the altar of the holy cross, or rood-altar, as it was more commonly called, and upon it was a gallery called the rood-loft, from its containing the great rood and its attendant images.

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

The side of the rood-loft facing the choir has pendents with grotesque carvings of allegorical signification.

Brittany & Its Byways

There seems also to have been an altar in the hearse over Queen Katherine's tomb; and, though no mention of them occurs, we should suppose there must have been one on each side of the entrance beneath the rood-loft.

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

Of him we are told that he built the whole nave in stone and wood-work, from the tower of the choir to the front, and also erected a rood-loft.

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

The projection of the rood-loft still remained on the top, adorned with fan tracery, and there was also the old door which led up to it.

From John O'Groats to Land's End

Part of the ancient screen and rood-loft still remain, together with a piscina in the chancel.

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

A careful restoration some years ago brought to light several interesting details that had been hidden for some two hundred years or more; including a stairs to the rood-loft, a squint, and the piscina.

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