ROOD

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 13

signifies a cro . Anciently there was a rood or crucifix set UF between the body of the church an the chancel. This was flanked with Tole and the Virgin Siary, and the spaces n ab irgin Mary, an spaces filled with carved work. The carved work still remains in maby cases, and forms the rood-screen. [s. 263]