Church orientations and patronal festivals

Author:

Benson Hugh

Abstract

In Antiq. Journ. xxx (1950), pp. 47–51, the late C.J.P. Cave, F.S.A., contributed a paper on the orientation of churches. He referred to Wordsworth's poem on Rydal chapel, written in 1823, and to the note prefixed to it. In this note Wordsworth says: ‘Our churches invariably perhaps, stand east and west, but why is by few persons exactly known; nor, that the degree of deviation from due east often noticed in the ancient ones was determined, in each particular case, by the point in the horizon at which the sun rose upon the day of the saint to whom the church was dedicated.’ The poem that follows describes a vigil on the site the night before, and in the morning the solemn fixing of the church's position by observing the rising sun.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Archaeology,History,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,Archaeology

Reference13 articles.

1. The Orientation of King's College Chapel;Rigg;Camb. Antiq. Soc. Journ,1853

2. Warner S. A. , Oxford Cathedral, 1924, p. 4.

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4. Davies J. D. , The Origin and Development of Early Christian Architecture, 1952, p. 83.

5. Cautley C. Munro , Norfolk Churches, 1949, pp. 14–17

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