1. He leaned against the rood screen and stared up at his newly repaired roof.

2. They all squatted on the paving-stone before the rood screen.

3. He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen.

4. We walked down the dark, dingy nave under the simple rood screen into the sanctuary.

5. In churches the rood loft is a display gallery above the rood screen, and a choir or organ loft is a gallery reserved for church singers and musicians.