Rood Screens

Some articles on rood, rood screens:

Rood Screen - After The Reformation, in England
... Thus not a single mediaeval Rood survives in Britain ... Of original rood lofts, also considered suspect due to their association with superstitious veneration, very few are left two surviving examples in Wales being at the ... The rood screens themselves were sometimes demolished or cut down in height, but more commonly remained with their painted figures whitewashed and overpainted with religious texts ...
Roods
... A rood is a cross or crucifix, especially a large one in a church a large sculpture or sometimes painting of the crucifixion of Jesus ... Rood is an archaic word for pole, from Old English rōd "pole", specifically "cross", from Proto-Germanic *rodo, cognate to Old Saxon rōda, Old High German ruoda "ro ... Rood was originally the only Old English word for the instrument of Jesus Christ's death ...

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