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I favour expeditiousness, to clear the path so that our aspirations are not twisted by protracted disputes over acre, rood, and perch.
Among the main features of the interior are the magnificent rood screen, reredos and font canopy of Frosterley marble.
After she'd stopped screaming she turns to run out of the rood, smack bang into the door.
Every church building had to display the royal coat of arms on the chancel arch in place of the rood.
The fittings are humble yet late-baroque altarpieces and the cross on the rood beam are of interest.
Luxurious interior, with a.o. marble rood screen, choir and confessional stalls, lustres and baptismal font.
The two universes were separated by a richly decorated partial wall, called the rood screen.
The decoration of the rood wall is of interest, seemingly a part of the sculpted crucifixion scene shown on the rood beam.
Tiny and towerless, with 15th-century wooden fixtures intact, St. Edith's is simplicity itself, save its intricately carved rood screen.
Then there was William Dowsing, the official iconoclast who went around East Anglia ordering the destruction of rood screens and stained-glass windows.
Today the building has interesting features including stained glass windows, a carved rood screen, a pipe organ, a choir vestry and a beautifully carved pulpit.
A third side altarpiece is classicist while the pulpit, visible organ pipes and sculptures on the rood beam are rococo items.
The form of the Celtic cross comes from the large one on the chancel rood screen, a dominant visual feature of the church.
The representation of the Passion of Christ on the rood screen is a key position within the overall concept in Naumburg.
The rood affixed to the wall above the chancel arch was installed in 1927, the figures in paper mache and the cross in wood.
Triumphal arch is also the name given to the arch above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church where a rood can be placed.
By the rood! if I had my will upon ye, I should nail you upon the abbey doors, as they hang vermin before their holes.
Interesting carpentry details include two Gothic portals and a rood arch.
Late Renaissance church architects preferred an unbroken view into the chancel from the nave, so by 1800 the rood screen and loft had become virtually obsolete throughout Europe.
Mr Jacques White, our architect, created the look of a chapel by adding elements that we find in a church: a sacristy, rood screen, apses and a steeple.
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On this higher level stands the altar, which is backed up by the rood screen.
These probably constituted the lower part of a rood screen, and consist of slender pillars, supporting lancet-headed arcading.
It is sometimes said that the nave is the parish, and the part eastward of the rood screen the cathedral church, but it is not so.
Marilda undertook the care of the children at the rood, but she could not get on with them.
Hence it follows that the quarter of an acre is a rood or yard or virga or virgata of land.
Every rood of this region had been in possession of that humming army over there.
Every parish that could afford it seems to have had a rood loft and an organ in it.
The present rood screen and canopied stalls were put in toward the close of the fifteenth century.
The rood screen, stretching across nave and aisles, appeared to full advantage, when unbroken by the chancel arch.
There are twelve stalls on either side, and three on each side of the entrance through the rood screen facing east.
There seems now to be a general inclination towards a revival of the rood screen.
Fronting the full width of the nave, the beautiful Decorated rood screen of Bishop Gower now claims our attention.
During this episcopate the rood screen was erected, and a sumptuous monument placed over the grave of the founder.
Then lifting again the rood, he turned away, and with him went the Norman.
It is probably a verge and foliot clock because it was mounted over the rood screen where refilling a water clock would be extremely difficult.
Thy body, I sweare by the holye rood, Shall hang on the gallows tree.
The night of Good Friday, three weeks past, he had a vision of the rood.
One of the most famous of these relics was the rood of Dovercourt.
So he bade her tell her brothers that he should meet them at the rood.
It was from the town of Dedham, to the place where the filthy Rood stood, ten miles.
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