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	Rood - LoveToKnow 1911
		The rood was carried either on a transverse beam, the " rood beam," or by a gallery, the " rood loft." Such a gallery was also used as a place from which to read portions of the service (see JuBS).
		It was reached by the " rood stair," a small winding stair or " vice." In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.
		The legality of rood screens or rood lofts in the Church of England depends on the law of the Church with regard to images, i.e.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rood (665 words)

	Rood screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rood screen (also choir screen or chancel screen) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture, dividing the chancel from the nave.
		The rood on a rood screen: a crucifix on the elaborate 16th-century jubé in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris
		The rood screen was a physical and symbolic barrier, separating the sanctuary, the domain of the priesthood, from the nave where ordinary people gathered to worship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rood_screen (810 words)

	Rood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rood on a rood screen: a crucifix on the elaborate 16th-century "jubé" in the church of St-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
		In church architecture a rood screen is a wooden or stone screen, usually separating the chancel or choir from the nave.
		A unique rood exists at St Mary's Church, Charlton-on-Otmoor, near Oxford, England, where "the Garland", a large wooden cross, solidly covered in greenery, stands on the 16th-century rood screen, said by Nikolaus Pevsner to be the finest in Oxfordshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rood (806 words)

	screen - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The choir screen or chancel screen, the most usual form, separates the choir or chancel from the body of the church.
		The screens of the cathedrals of Chartres and Albi in France and of York, Lincoln, and Durham in England are especially noteworthy.
		The rood screen is a more elaborate form of choir screen that bears the rood or crucifix.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-screen.html (517 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These roods were frequently very large, so as to be seen from all parts of the church, and were placed either on a gallery, or screen, or on a beam spanning the chancel arch.
		Rood-lights were kept burning before the rood in medieval times, consisting either of a wick and oil in a cresset, or rood- bowl, or of a taper on a pricket in the center of a mortar of brass, lattern, or copper.
		In churches where there were both pulpitum and rood- screen the latter usually had two doors, and between them was placed, on the western side, the rood-altar, which, in monastic churches, often served as the parish altar, the parishioners being accommodated in the nave.
	www.catholicliturgy.com /index.cfm/FuseAction/EncyclopediaArticle/Index/15/SubIndex/149/EncyclopediaIndex/8 (1606 words)

	LM
		Rood screens were used as early as the twelfth century to separate the chancel or choir from the nave.
		The rood screen was surmounted with a rood beam on which was placed a crucifix or Christus Rex.
		The rood screen was at times used to separate the monastic chapter in the chancel from the laity in the nave.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_15252_ENG_HTM.htm (148 words)

	rood - definition by dict.die.net
		Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which the rood and its appendages were set up to view.
		Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
		Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple.
	dict.die.net /rood (232 words)

	Rood Screens of East Anglia
		The purpose of the screen was to divide the chancel, with its altar, from the nave, which was often used for secular purposes.
		Above the screen are the remains of a large painted rood, with a large cross in the centre.
		Among screens the rood screen is, of course, the most important, because, standing as it did at the entrance to the chancel, its purpose was to protect the principal or high altar.
	www.norfolkchurches.co.uk /norfolkroods.htm (4581 words)

	«SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES» BY J. STABB; 145-156
		The rood screen [plate 145] resembles in general construction the screen of Patricio, Monmouthshire [Wales]; it is interesting to compare this screen with ancient examples of the same type at Molland and Parracombe, as we have here the tympanum of illuminated boarding, with the difference of the presence of the gallery front over the screen.
		The rood screen is gone, but the staircase remains; it was entered from the north chapel on the east side of the chancel arch; the exit doorway is in the chancel arch [plate 148a] on the north side.
		The rood screen extends across the nave and aisle [plate 152a], it is of the same type as the one at Bridford and is thought to be the work of the same artist.
	www.wissensdrang.com /stabb145.htm (4604 words)

	Screen: Hexham Abbey - The Parish Church of St. Andrew founded by Saint Wilfrid
		Perhaps the loft was once the setting for the Rood: an awe-inspiring carved Crucifixion, richly colourful and dramatically lit, with life-size (or larger) figures of a sorrowing mother and disciple at the foot of the Cross.
		Usually the screen was an open one, with wide gaps between slender uprights that allowed the congregation to watch and share in the priest’s celebration of divine worship; stone newel stairs cut into the wall nearby ascended to the loft so that candles might be set around the rood.
		If the Rood itself ever existed, the image of Mary and John sorrowing at the foot of the Cross was soon discarded; roods and rood-lofts were finally banned in 1561.
	www.hexhamabbey.org.uk /guide/screen.htm (1056 words)

	Some Account of the St. Burian Rood-Screen - Robert J Preston, 1891 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The arcade work in the vestry-chest shows that the screen must have been a massive one, which was certainly necessary to support the long rood-soller which once crowned it.
		The panelling of the screen which now spans the chancel of the church is plain.
		The reason for this was that the clergy of the mediæval church saw in the entrance to the chancel the symbolism of death.
	cornovia.org.uk /htexts/preston01.html (2890 words)

	The screens of George Fellowes Prynne in wood, stone and metal
		The screen was a composite, having rich stone tracery filling the expanse of the chancel arch, and below it, between central shafts and the sides, a set of iron cross members, the central one of which housed the rood and figures.
		In Dulwich one observed the slenderness of the pillars, indicating that the nature of the screen was such that all the stresses and thrusts were borne correctly by the structure of the building and pillars.
		Observation of the screen reveals much of the original fourteenth century carved and painted wood: the painted panels are located along the base of the screen, but they have each been framed by newly-placed carved wood, giving a unified wall effect.
	www.gfp.sharville.org.uk /screens.htm (3761 words)

	rood - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		rood, crucifix mounted above the entrance to the chancel and flanked by large figures of the Virgin and St. John, an almost invariable feature in the 14th- and 15th-century European church.
		The richly ornamental screen of wood or stone closing the chancel from the nave became the support for the cross and figures and was termed rood screen.
		The rood loft sometimes contained an organ or was used as a singing gallery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc.aspx?id=1E1:rood (311 words)

	Rood Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Before the reformation the chancel at Prescot was divided from the nave by a wooden screen, surmounted by a rood (figures, probably life-size, of Christ on the cross and on either side, Mary and John).
		The screen was gilded in 1965 and stained fl, with further gilding, in 1998.
		Screens were originally intended to close off the chancel and sanctuary and preserve them for holy use.
	prescotchurch.merseyworld.com /tour/tour06.html (195 words)

	Cullompton Town - Official Website - Church History
		The Rood Screen is one of the longest in Devon, it consists of eleven bays, three for each aisle and five in the nave.
		At the west end is the Golgotha which once stood on the Rood Screen (see picture).
		Hence the screen became known as the rood screen, because the carved figures above it were called the 'rood'.
	www.cullompton.org /church-history.html (1141 words)

	Western Rite History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most rood screens, in contrast to the stone pulpita, were made of wood and so have easily perished.
		The sanctuary was often divided from the rest of the chancel by an open wooden screen known as the presbytery screen.
		The removal of rood screens from some Roman Catholic parish churches, like those designed by Pugin in the nineteenth century, has been a most unfortunate act of liturgical vandalism and indicative of the lost appreciation for the contemplative and mystical aspects of the liturgy.
	www.saintkatherineorthodoxchurch.org /wrintro.htm (3993 words)

	Tour 6
		It is a carryover from the British tradition and was meant to separated the clergy from the laity.
		"Rood" is a medieval word for "cross," and such a cross was usually placed at the entrance to an important location within the church.
		This screen was carved by German artists and is the last existing rood screen in the diocese of Southern Ohio.
	stpaulepiscopalcolumbusoh.beliefnet.com /Tour6.htm (99 words)

	rood - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This group, usually carved in wood and painted and gilded, was in early examples supported upon a beam as wide as the chancel arch.
		This screen often supported an overhead platform called a rood loft reached by a small stairway from the nave.
		In England during the Reformation, many roods with their screens were destroyed; they are not part of the fittings of an Anglican church.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/rood.asp (311 words)

	M.B. Hall, The ponte in S. Maria Novella: the problem of the rood screen in Italy
		To this end the rood screens were demolished and the friars' choirs levelled and transferred to their present location in the cappella maggiore in each church.
		One of the chief abuses the Council of Trent undertook to correct was the remoteness of the layman from the liturgy.
		For Viollet the screen was a social barrier and therefore a symbol of ecclesiastical pretentiousness.
	www.smn.it /polis/hall.htm (4395 words)

	ROOD (O.E. rod, a stic... - Online Information article about ROOD (O.E. rod, a stic...
		ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat.
		SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat.
		Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/ROOD_OE_rod_a_stick_another_for.html (1079 words)

	«SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES» BY J. STABB; PREFACES, NOTES, INDEX, ...
		The rood was generally supported by chains attached to the chancel arch; besides the crucifix there were lecterns for the Epistle and Gospel, sometimes movable, but in the case of stone screens, often forming part of the design; thirdly, there were coronels of metal, which on solemn feasts were filled with lighted tapers.
		The majority of the Devonshire screens were constructed of wood, and were the work of local carvers, but some of the later screens show detail of Italian character; this may be because Italian models were copied, or they may have been the work of Italians staying in England.
		Later Pre-Reformation: under this head come the groined screens of the usual Devonshire type, dating from early in the 15th century up to the time of the Post-Reformation: these are limited in number; as most of the old churches retained their screens we cannot expect to find many examples erected at this period.
	www.wissensdrang.com /stabb000.htm (5868 words)

	Culture of Orthodox Western Rite - III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rood screen in the cathedral at Albi in France (aerial view).
		The larger cathedrals always had a solid rood screen, almost always with a single door in the centre.
		It should be noted that the English rood screens were designed with a gangway atop them so that the appointed clergy could ascend them by stairs such as these, and from atop them could sing the Epistle and Gospel, the Alleluya, and make proclamations, and so forth.
	www.odox.net /Liturgy-Western-Culture3.htm (446 words)

	zrood
		Rood, rood beam, rood loft, rood loft stairs, rood screen.
		Anglo-catholics, under the influence of the Oxford Movement, enthusiastically restored rood screens; in several cases, they completely reconstructed them, with rood, rood loft, rood beam, and sometimes even altars.
		Perhaps the most interesting is Rattlesden, where the entire structure is reconstructed in unpainted wood; it is the most complete reconstruction of the rood apparatus in the county, and its structure and use are brilliantly clear.
	www.suffolkchurches.co.uk /zrood.htm (463 words)

	Inside your Church
		Medieval churches often had "rood screens" ("rood" means "cross") separating the Sanctuary and choir from the body of the nave.
		The rood screen had the rood -- the Crucifix -- often flanked by images of the Virgin and St. John and by oil lamps.
		This screen totally separated the sanctuary from the place the people sat so that the sanctuary was truly treated as the Holy of Holies.
	www.fisheaters.com /churchbuilding.html (1331 words)

	EZGeography - Rood screen
		The rood screen was a common feature in the late medieval English church, dividing the chancel from the nave - its function being to separate the clergy from the laity.
		The word is derived from the Saxon word ‘roda’, meaning a cross.
		The screens are often highly decorative, with elaborate carvings and wooden panels featuring images of saints and angels.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Rood_screen (161 words)

	Model Parish Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chancel (also called choir) screens became standard church furniture from the early 13th century; by the 15th century literally there was no church without its pictorial division between the space of the laity and the space of clerical performance.
		In England the screen was most common referred to as the Rood Screen, because of the standard practice of placing a large freestanding cross above the screens.
		The rood screen at South Creake (Norfolk) Our Lady Saint Mary, dates from the 15th century and is now provided with a painted rood (cross and figures) from the redundant church of St. Mary -at-the-Walls, Colchester.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/visarts/projects/kempe/model/chancel.html (267 words)

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