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The rood screen was originally surmounted by a rood loft carrying the Great Rood, a sculptural representation of the Crucifixion. [1] In English, Scottish, ...
The rood provided a focus for worship, most especially in Holy Week when worship was highly elaborate. During Lent the rood was veiled; on Palm Sunday it was revealed before the procession of palms, and the congregation knelt before it. The whole Passion story would then be read from the rood loft, at the foot of the crucifix, by three ministers.
Rood loft was the usual original name used for church rood screens in England. In East Anglia, medieval wills more often refer to the rodeloft, perke or candlebeam in a church. The term rood screen first arose in the early 19th century. [2]
The existing rood screen probably dates to this period. [3] There is no rood loft but the stairs leading to one are still visible. The stairs lead out of what is now the vestry but was originally the north chapel. This was a 14th-century extension of the north aisle eastwards.
The interiors of mediaeval churches, apart from their many altars and stained glass (which, of course can only be properly seen from inside) had their purpose made visually plain by the almost universal presence of roods, huge figures of the crucified Christ, high above the congregation, mounted on a rood loft at the chancel arch -with steps to ...
The triumphal arch behind where there Rood Loft once stood is decorated with angels encircling the missing Great Rood and monograms of the Most Holy Name. These paintings were all restored in the early 1960s by Eve Baker. The north aisle is home to a once very complete set depicting the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Discovered earlier ...
Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains , or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).
In the late medieval period, there was also a rood screen or rood beam placed one bay to the west of the pulpitum (i.e. further away from the high altar of the cathedral), and the main nave altar for the use of lay worshippers was set against its western face.