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It's since struck me that it is interesting to look at the function of
any door associated with such practices: what was that particular door
*for*?
The trumeau image at Salisbury, for example was on the west door - the
symbolic 'front door' of the building - but it is not a door that would
actually have been used by the pilgrims who left offerings at the image
there. If one follows the example at nearby (and nearly contemporary)
Wells, canons entered through the north porch and lay people through the
south nave door via a door in the cloister outer wall. The west door,
with its cultic image was only opened for VIP visitors and liturgical
events - both highly ritualized forms of entry. One might be able to
distinguish between symbolic and actual entry.
Jon Cannon
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