roodloft

The jubé, or roodloft, is a perfect lacework of stone.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Hence, the nave has been blocked up with pews, the choir or transept partitioned off to serve as a parish church, roodloft and chancel screen removed, the altar displaced by a table, and the sedilia scattered about in odd corners.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

The other loss is that of the _jubé_ or roodloft, which, from the fragments left, seems to have been a magnificent piece of later Gothic work, perhaps almost rivalling the famous one at Alby.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

"And that it was a wire that turned the image of St. Peter, and that it was along a wire the Holy Ghost descended from the roodloft upon the priest."

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

The crucifix was replaced in the roodloft, the high altar was re-decorated, the real presence was defended from the pulpit, and, except from the refugees, not a murmur was heard. [

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856