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Actually, there are almost *no* examples of successfully relating
liturgy to architecture (or vice versa.) [I don't think Helen Gittos is any more
successful than her predecessors - but I am only on chapter 3!]
The only example that I can think of that comes anywhere close is
William Mahrt explaining the (somewhat eccentric) route of the Salisbury Palm
Sunday procession by the layout of the cathedral at Old Sarum.
(Cramped site, and cloister to NE of church, rather than in the SW
quadrant as at Salisbury.) We don't know how much of the Sarum liturgy
pre-dated the new cathedral, but we can't see any concessions in
either liturgy or architecture. [Neither liturgists nor architects are
particularly humble people - then or now.]
John Briggs
On 26/02/2013, Conrad Bladey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Sounds wonderful.
> I tend to define church architecture as mathematical and engineering games
> that must accommodate liturgy and find approval from the powerful
>
> Does anyone have an example of where liturgy changed to suit architecture?
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