High above the main altar is the Rood Group. Rood is an old English word for cross.  Above hangs the great wooden crucifix; below the crucified Jesus stand His Blessed Mother and His faithful apostle and friend, St. John.  It portrays the scene of Christ's death on Calvary.

All three figures are from the original reredos, or ornamental screen, that rose above the altar prior to the Cathedral renovation completed in 1982.