the gallery upon which the rood is supported.
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(from the article `loft`) in architecture, upper space within a building, or a large undivided space in a building used principally for storage in business or industry. In ... ...a medieval church was supported by a single beam, spanning the nave at the entrance to the chancel and known as the rood beam. Later, a rood ... [2 related...
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A gallery at the top of the rood screen, used for access to the lamps burning before the Rood. Sometimes used for parts of the liturgy.
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A gallery at the top of the rood screen, used for access to the lamps burning before the Rood. Sometimes used for parts of the liturgy.
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In architecture, a rood loft is a loft or gallery, in a church, over the screen, separating the choir, or chancel from the nave. Rood lofts do not appear to have been common in Britain before, if so soon as, the fourteenth century. They were approached from the inside of the church, generally by a small stone staircase in the wall which is often to...
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