Sentence examples for a rood from inspiring English sources

"Why would you pay for a rood on a chair?" asks Jordan haughtily.

Later a rood screen was added, rising from the floor to this beam; the rood loft, above the screen, was also added.

Its mature medieval form consisted of three basic elements: a screen (known in England as a rood screen); a gallery, or loft, from which the words Jube, Domine, benedicere (hence jubé) were spoken; and a crucifix (rood) surmounting the whole.

This is a place of vaulted ceilings and stained-glass clerestory windows, bounded by a carved oak partition almost like a rood screen between the supplicants and the sanctuary of knowledge.

There is a rood screen, axiomatic to Pugin's view of the revived Catholic church; beyond it the chancel is a climax of gold, with canopied sedilia and an Easter sepulchre around which long-forgotten pre-reformation rites were to be revived.

Chelsea threw on striker Helen Lander for the last 15 minutes in search of an equaliser but with four minutes to go, Cantrell again broke clear from a Rood pass, to fire home her second goal via the post.

This week he has a 12th-century stone corbel shaped like a wolf's head, a 15th-century beam carved in the shape of a harpy, and a large fragment of English Gothic tracery in oak, from a chancel rood screen, circa 1400.

However, the building now suffers from climate control and display problems and has a leaking rood.

That is clearly not the case here – the Christ Child occupies the same space as a large rood cross depicting him being crucified.

According to one 19th-century writer, an old rood loft had previously rested on one of the beams supporting the gallery.

It examines ghoulish art and literature, from a fifteenth-century rood screen depicting a pair of fashionably dressed skeletons to the Christmas Eve cameo of Marley's ghost to the "everyday apparitions" of Muriel Spark.