It contains a splendid pre-reformation oak rood screen built in 1480 and several other handsome monuments including the tomb of John Hawley ( d. 1408 ) and his two wives, covered with a large brass plate effigy of all three.

Includes original furniture, baptismal font, encaustic tile floor in choir, elaborate rood screen, linen-fold paneling, and parquet oak floor in sanctuary.

The area around the altar is seen as endowed with greater holiness, and is usually physically distinguished from the rest of the church, whether by a permanent structure such as an iconostasis, a rood screen or altar rails, by a curtain that can be closed at more solemn moments of the liturgy, as in the Armenian Apostolic Church and Armenian Catholic Church, or simply by the general architectural layout.

Note the rood screen behind the free-standing altar.

Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of the bell tower which stood about 320 feet ( 100 m ) north west of the main building.

The plans show structural stonework ; they omit the rood screen dividing the nave from the choir.

Some restoration undertaken in the 19th century under Sir Gilbert Scott included the rood screen that replaced the one removed when the Abbey became a parish church.

File: Worcester Cathedral looking west. jpg | The rood screen, nave and west window

In the interior, the rood screen is considered by many to be the finest in the county.

It stretches all the way across the church, and is made up of three separate screens: a rood screen across the chancel arch and parclose screens across the north and south chancel aisles.

Barton Turf church, situated a mile from the village, is noted for containing a very rare surviving example of a medieval rood screen across the chancel arch.

Under Bishop Gower ( 1328 – 1347 ) the Cathedral was modified further, with the rood screen and the Bishop ’ s Palace, intended as permanent reminders of his episcopacy.

It was built circa 14th century and contains an ornate rood screen decorated with images of the apostles that appears to have been added in the early 16th century.

There is a rood screen above the entrance to the sanctuary.

The outside of the building is faced with flintwork and the interior contains a hammerbeam roof, Jacobean pulpit, early Edwardian pews with carved poppy-head ends, several table-top tombs, an ancient poor-box and a panel on the painted rood screen which shows William of Norwich, a boy martyr who is reputed to have been crucified in the 12th century.

Peto also had the ancient Parish Church of St Mary rebuilt in 1854 but retaining many historic features including the 15th century tower and rood screen ; it is a Grade II * Listed building

Vasari also renovated the fine medieval churches of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, from both of which he removed the original rood screen and loft, and remodelled the retro-choir in the Mannerist taste of his time.

The original nave was blocked off and a new tower erected, and a new carved oak rood screen, incorporating the arms of Scudamore, Laud, and King Charles I, was made by John Abel of Hereford.

Other treasures include an eighteenth-century nave with a wrought iron rood screen by Robert Bakewell, for which he charged the church £ 157. 10. 0d ; the memorial to Bess of Hardwick ; and the Cavendish brasses, including those of Henry Cavendish and Georgiana Spencer, the wife of one of the Dukes of Devonshire.

The lower part of the rood screen survived the destruction visited by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans, although some of the painted panels were disfigured.

Socket holes in the piers of the crossing suggest that, as well as a rood screen, there was a further screen dividing nave and crossing, such as still exists at Dunster in Somerset.

A particular feature of the church is the magnificent late-15th century rood screen which has a loft and rood designed by Ninian Comper in 1925.

* In George Herbert's poem The Sacrifice ( part of The Temple, 1633 ), the Tree of Life is the rood on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

Image: Hanging_crucifix. jpg | The hanging crucifix or rood designed by George Pace in 1975, the figure of Christ is by Frank Roper.

It is noted for a fine rood loft built in 1534 and for the partly octagonal bell tower.

This wood carving of a " foliate head " type is on the Renaissance rood screen | screen at Dore Abbey.

It is one of the finest rood screens in Norfolk and above are frescoes of ca.

The rood screen is probably of the same date, but the screen's Perpendicular Gothic top is later.

The youthwing is called ROOD, jong in de SP ( English: RED, Youth within the SP ; the word rood is officially written in capitals, but is not an acronym ).

At the left side of the chancel arch is the opening for the door which led to the rood loft.

Over the second pier on each side is the entrance, now blocked, to the rood loft, indications of which may be seen on the south side.

Leaving Long Island Sound, he charted Block Island, which is named for him and Narragansett Bay, where he possibly named " Roode Eylandt " after the red ( Dutch rood ) color of its soil.

Most of these images are on the panels of rood screens or featured in stained glass with only one being a stone capital ( Stokeinteignhead, Devon ).

Relics of the town's history including part of an Anglo-Saxon cross carved from stone, a Tudor rood screen and reminders of the Civil War.

The presbytery in the east is separated from the nave by a stone wall, serving the same function as a rood screen.

" In May 1644 the scope of the Ordinance was widened to include representations of angels ( a particular obsession of Dowsing's ), rood lofts, holy water stoups, and images in stone, wood and glass and on plate.

Rood screens developed in the 13th century, as a wooden or stone screens, also usually separating the chancel or choir from the nave, upon which the rood now stood.

Western Europe had its more transparent Gothic rood screens and the smaller more economical altar rails.

The church has a Perpendicular Gothic rood screen.

King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late Gothic ( Perpendicular ) English architecture, while its early Renaissance rood screen separating the nave and chancel, erected in 1532-36 in a striking contrast of style, has been called by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, " the most exquisite piece of Italian decoration surviving in England ".

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

The rood loft, the oak stalls, and the reredos in the chapel of the Virgin are masterpieces in a similar style.