Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 154
tha which rested upon the floor of the roodloft. Butthe instances last quoted are all late fifteenth century ones, and we may take it that theolder position for the rood and rood-beam is one to a large extent independent of thescreen, but with the advent of the loft, the rood-beam is gradually… … 84 ROODSCREENS AND ROODLOFTS itself, whilst upon the loft, in imitation of the great Jubes, would be found an altar of theHoly Rood.1 This is then the primary purpose for which the roodloft is introduced into our parishchurches, and necessity for the provision of a deep {i.e. broad) floor, of very…
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