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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of great extent, and included the now distinct parishes of Ashton-in-Makerfield, St. Thomas in Ashton, Croft with Southworth, Lowton, Newchurch, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… To the north of the chancel arch is the stair to the rood loft; the upper doorway is blocked and the lower has a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… arches of wood span the nave beneath the clerestory. The rood stairs are contained in a turret at the south-east angle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… nave. In 1890-3 a new organ, choir stalls, altar table, rood screen, and two stained glass windows were provided at … south aisle buttresses are gabled with one set-off. The rood stair is contrived in the south-east angle of the north …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… side are remains of the stairs which formerly led to the rood loft. There is a four-centred doorway leading to the … a square label. In the south-east angle of the nave is the rood stair turret, which rises above the roof and is crowned …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… shafts and foliaged caps. The blocked upper doorway of the rood stair exists in the north-east angle of the arcade. On … and at a lower level; they are plain lancets. The blocked rood stair is in the south-east angle of the north aisle and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… of the nave, N. of the chancel-arch, is the doorway to the rood-loft; it has chamfered jambs and four-centred head; the … Across the S.E. angle of the aisle is the doorway to the rood-loft staircase; it has moulded jambs and a four-centred … Screens: In navenow under tower-arch, upper part of former rood-screen incorporated with modern work, of five bays …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of the chapel is a 15th-century doorway to the former rood-loft staircase, now blocked and re-set; it has moulded … half columns. In the N.E. angle is a splay to inclose the rood-loft staircase and in the splay are two doorways, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of religious conservatism. 65 Certainly there was still a rood light in the church in 1545, to which a parishioner left … 160 any work carried out then was presumably limited. A rood mentioned in 1501, apparently beneath the west side of the tower, was probably the 'red rood' before which a parishioner asked to be buried in 1514; …