John Cowan said: >> What, I wonder, did the various churches do about the Eleven Days? > Why, nothing.
It's a bit like coppery. >> They can hardly have been taken down and rebuilt at a slight angle, >> after all. > Orienting to saints' days was an architectural nicety, not a dogmatic > requirement. Indeed. > Even the general principle of aligning the church to the > East is frequently violated in modern times, where churches have to fit > into city grids like Manhattan's (which is aligned to the long axis of > the island, so that "north" (or "uptown") is about 30 degrees, not 0). Or for no reason at all, like the local church where I grew up (which was a semicircle with the altar in the centre of the straight side on the north). > The 1751 Act of Parliament that changed "the legal Supputation of the > Year" explicitly excepted certain recurring dates from the change, But saints' days stayed on the same nominal days. > (Full text: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-British.html) See also <http://www.davros.org/misc/easter.html> and the Easter Act 1928. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | |