rood loft

a gallery above a rood screen, approached from stairs, used for chantings and readings.

Words nearby rood loft

Two more at least were in front of the Rood-loft or Jubé, and the remaining one very probably was in one of the aisles.

Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth |Anonymous
It is fixed to the wall containing the staircase to the rood-loft.

Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 |Various
The rood-loft has disappeared, but a stairway and window mark its former position.

Somerset |G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
I remember he was wont to talke much of the rood-loft, and of the wafers: he remembred those times.

Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2) |John Aubrey

There is a good parapet along the aisles, and the rood-loft stair has an external turret.

Somerset |G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade