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Jon
We discussed church orientation here in January (was that when you were in China?). This is what I posted then:
The only remotely related paper I can find is this (I hope the link works):
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S030574880090210X
There is a health warning that the authors are geologists working in an
archaeological laboratory...
I did once pick up an offprint of an article (which may or may have been
that one - I can't find it) while attending a talk on the orientation of St
George's, Bloomsbury (so accurate that it was suggested Edmond Halley helped
Hawksmoor with the latest scientific instruments...) The authors of that
talk have published:
"The Orientation of Churches: some new evidence" by Jason R Ali and Peter
Cunich, in The Antiquaries Journal, Volume 81, 2001.
John Briggs
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> re Morris: Yes, I'd forgotten he said that; of course the buildings I mentioned (along with a great many other cathedral and greatr abbey churches) where not entirely rebuilt at that stage, and so preserved older, poorer orientations. Winchester - hugely enlarged at that era but respecting a C7 orientation until the 1079 rebuild - is a case in point.
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> re Benson: no, this research was in the last ten years. I recall an article on it in British Archaeology magazine. Frustrating.
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> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:27:22 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] church direction (Re: [M-R] position of priest at Mass)
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> Were you perhaps thinking of the article by H Benson: Church Orientation and Patronal Festivals, Antiquaries Journal, 36, 1956, pp205-13?
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> Richard Morris, (Churches in the Countryside) suggests, however, the possibility that a greater desire for strictness in arose out of the Benedictine reforms of the tenth century (pp208-9).
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