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.
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