pulpitum

In large monastic churches it was called the pulpitum and was separate from the rood-screen supporting the rood, the latter being placed westward of the pulpitum; but in secular cathedrals and parish churches there does not seem to have been usually a separate rood-screen, the rood, in such cases, being either on or over the pulpitum itself.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Some fittings, probably originally inserted at this early period, still remain, viz., the eastern side of the pulpitum and some woodwork preserved in the present stalls.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Salutation of the Blessed Mary in the entry of the quire on the south side, 'which he himself constructed with the _pulpitum_ on the same place _ut nunc cernitur_ says the' Chronicle, 'and parts of it are worked up in the present screen.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See

Among these screens is included the west side of the pulpitum, which still contains its original central doorway, as well as the screens in the choir aisles.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

This is followed by another tract (Psalm 139), at the close of which the third lesson, viz. the Passion according to St. John, is sung by the deacons or recited from a bare pulpit -- "dicitur passio super nudum pulpitum".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

This could only have been so, however, in the smaller churches where there was no pulpitum, unless perhaps it was itself the origin of the pulpitum.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In smaller churches, with no separate pulpitum, but only a rood-screen with a central doorway, there was usually an altar on either side of the door, but it is doubtful whether these can strictly be termed rood-altars.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In churches where there were both pulpitum and rood - screen the latter usually had two doors, and between them was placed, on the western side, the rood-altar, which, in monastic churches, often served as the parish altar, the parishioners being accommodated in the nave.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Above the _pulpitum_ and placed across the church, was the beam, which sustained a great cross, two cherubim, and the images of St. Mary and St. John the Apostle ....

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908

A screen with a loft (_pulpitum_) separated in a manner the aforesaid tower from the nave, and had in the middle and on the side towards the nave, the altar of the holy cross.

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908