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ˈrood-loft
Also roodloft, rood loft.
[f. rood n. 3 + loft n. 4.]
A loft or gallery forming the head of a rood-screen.
1399Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 133 Pro j rodeloft de novo faciendo ex convencione, 3l. 6s. 8d... Et in j porcione meremii..pro prædicto rudeloft, 4s. 1431E.E. Wills 90 For the reparacion of the chirch, and specially þe rodelofte of Stoke, C s. 1477–9Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 80 For scowryng of the Standardis candilstikkis, & the Rode loft,..iijs. viijd. 1503Hawes Example Virtue xiii. 242 The rood loft was yuery garnysshed with gold. 1579J. Northbrooke Agst. Dicing (1843) 148 Wheresoeuer they reade this worde crosse, they aduance out of hande their roode and roodeloft. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §88 (1810) 86 It sheweth a fair church, with a rich..rood loft. 1719Ashmole Antiq. Berks. I. 69 Under the King's Arms, placed over the Rood-Loft, is this Distich. 1797Nicholls Churchw. Acc. 131 The rood-loft..was a gallery in popish times situate in every Church between the nave and the chancel. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 500 Near the third window there are some steps remaining, which probably led to the rood-loft. 1840Parker Gloss. Archit. (ed. 3) 329 Roodlofts do not appear to have been common in this country before..the fourteenth century. 1872Ellacombe Bells of Ch. in Ch. Bells Devon iv. 65 In some places there was a gable or turret over the Rood-loft to hold this sacring bell.
attrib.1483–5Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 117 A newe holowe key to the Roode loffte dore. 1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 224 A barrel of this explosive which had been placed in the rood-loft staircase. |