Dec 192010
![[rood, fronted by a rood screen, in a rood loft, accessed by rood stairs]](http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd07163.jpg "134kb jpg photograph of the Jubé (altar screen) at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, ca. 1530; it illustrated a rood, fronted by a rood screen, in a rood loft, accessed by rood stairs; photographed by Jastrow in 2006; swiped off the Wikipedia web site")
Article
Loft or gallery surmounting a rood screen, from which the priest sometimes read the Epistles and Gospels or preached to those assembled in the nave.
MLA Citation
- “rood loft”. New Catholic Dictionary. Saints.SQPN.com. 19 December 2010. Web. 20 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/rood-loft/>