Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gallery in a church where the rood and its appendages were placed.
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Examples
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The side of the rood-loft facing the choir has pendents with grotesque carvings of allegorical signification.
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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
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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.
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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.
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