Rood screens are not unique to Britain; they can be found in churches in many parts of Europe: the German word for one is Lettner; the French jubé; and the Dutch doksaal.
The rood screen in Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England.
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In medieval churches, often supported on a beam (rood beam) or screen (rood screen)
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The Dream of the Rood
The Cross of Lothair II of Lotharingia with cameo of Augustus. Cologne, c. 1000. The front is gold with precious gems while the back is silver.
Rood Screen The screen dividing the nave from the chancel, often with a cross (or rood) mounted above it.
Transept The ground plan of many churches forms the shape of a cross. The two 'arms' of the cross are the transepts.
Rood loft - A gallery built above the rood screen, often to carry the rood or other images and candles; approached by stairs either of wood or built in the wall.
ROOD LOFT
In medieval times the body of the church (the nave) was divided from the chancel by a screen.
Rood Screen
A screen built beneath the rood loft.
Sacristy
A separate room for storing sacred vessels.
rood
a cross erected at the entry to the chancel. Roods often had figures of the Virgin Mary on one side and St. John on the other.
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Rood
Cross or crucifix placed between the chancel and nave. A rood screen separates the two parts of a church and is often painted or carved.
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Rood.
A cross or crucifix placed between the chancel and nave, usually on the top of the screen which screens the chancel from the nave. This is known as a rood screen; it is often decoratively painted or carved or both.
Sanctuary.
Rood screen
Screen originally surmounted by a Rood.
Romanesque
The architectural style common in Western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Rood screen/Jube: A stone or wooden screen, which separated the choir of the church where the clergy sits from the nave where the congregation sits (fig.1).
Rood Screen A rood screen (also known as a chancel screen) is a partition that separates the nave of a church from the chancel. It is similar to an iconostasis in an Eastern Orthodox church, except that its origin is more recent.
Rood screen
A divider, generally made of carved wood or stone, that separates the chancel of a church or cathedral from the rest of the nave.
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Rood
- a large crucifix (christ on the cross) usually over the entrance to the chancel. A rood tower or spire is one situated over the crossing.
See Church Design.
Rood Screen : An ornamented piece which serves on the Altar as a separation between the Choir and the Nave. Quite often Rood Screens will contain or support a crucifix.
rood screen - a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel
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In the r 5th century some of the stone staircases leading to the rood loft, with open tracery round the edge, are of great elaboration and beauty, as at St Maclou, Rouen.
A rood screen was placed below a representation of the Crucifixion (called a rood).Screens passageIn an older house or college, a screened-off entrance passage between great hall and service rooms.
28 - first and second floor dentils under cornices, p. 32 - under first floor roof cornice, p.34 - under cornice of gable second from the left, p. 42 - under cornice of tower, p.44, under rood cornice, p. 59).
 See also: Church, Screen, Altar, Architecture, Chancel
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