The ancient rood is kept at the museum. From LearnThat.org.
A rood is a piece of land one rod wide and forty rods long, that is, the fourth of an acre. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England] Reference
Here, by God's rood, is the one maid for me. From Wordnik.com. [Kilmeny of the Orchard] Reference
The plates are of a date too late to show any rood. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
These, probably, were taken from a former rood screen. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Others have thought that the upper part was a rood-loft. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Fra Battista was to stand on the rood-step to make his purgation. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The portion eastwards from the rood screen is in better preservation. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Wyatt's recommendation, the ancient rood-loft in the nave was removed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
The choir, 131 ft. long, is separated from the nave by an ugly rood-loft. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
They trooped up the rood, an excited group; Keineth and Peggy in advance. From Wordnik.com. [Keineth] Reference
Every rood of that fair valley was trodden by the wily and sanguinary foe. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The rood-screen in the nave was by the pier in which is a small canopied niche. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
Huge as he is, and whilst "he lies floating many a rood," he is still a creature. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
They smashed "idols", defaced statues, demolished stained glass, ravaged rood screens. From Wordnik.com. [The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad] Reference
These received the rood-beam from which, during Lent, the Lenten curtain was suspended. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
We were advised to go and see the rood-screen of the chapel of Rosgrand, but had no time. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
There are some curious traces of former rood-lofts which seem to speak of eastward enlargements. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Every rood of soil we cultivate in Europe has been watered by the sweat of several races of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The present rood screen and canopied stalls were put in toward the close of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Near the top of the wall of a cupola-shaped south finial of the rood-loft turret, is an old sun-dial. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The figures throughout the rood-screen are all boldly executed, and the tracery most elegant and delicate. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
"Every tree seems one of the family, and every rood has transferred a picture of its beauty to our hearts.". From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
These served to support a porch, having a rood and altar, which is thus described in the "Rites of Durham". From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The side of the rood-loft facing the choir has pendents with grotesque carvings of allegorical signification. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Every rood of earth, moistened and hallowed with sacred blood, sings to-day a noble dirge, wordless, but how eloquent!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
On the south side of the chancel arch is a rood-loft staircase turret, of which both the upper and lower doorways remain. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Under them are 92 stalls in 4 rows; at one end is the rood-loft, and at the other the high altar against the apsidal wall. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
These probably constituted the lower part of a rood screen, and consist of slender pillars, supporting lancet-headed arcading. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
'I am Marius,' said the king, 'and I was that Roman soldier who took pity of the gentle Saviour dying in His agony upon the rood. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Lord ate the lamb at the feast before He was betrayed to that death upon the rood whereby He redeemed the world, if men would but choose. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
St Helen's keeps its old chancel screen, but it is in a mutilated condition, for the rood-beam was taken away to be cut up into bench-ends!. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
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