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The Orientation of Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

C.J.P. Cave
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Papers have been written on the orientation of churches, but most of them deal with the origin of orientation. In only two that I have come across are there any data of actual orientations, namely, ‘The Orientation of Scottish Churches’ by F. C. Eeles, and ‘Orientation of Churches in Hampshire’ by T. W. Shore.

I have measured the orientation of 642 churches. I had originally planned to measure many more, but the war and its aftermath have prevented it, and I feel it is better to publish what I have done rather than to wait indefinitely.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2 , April 1950 , pp. 47 - 51
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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References

page 47 note 1 P.S.A. (Scot.), vol. xii, Fourth Series, 1914, p. 169.Google Scholar

page 47 note 2 Published in Walford's Antiquarian, Sept. 1886, and republished by the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society in the Shore Memorial Volume, p. 95.

page 47 note 3 Loc cit., p. 181.

page 48 note 1 Loc. cit.

page 48 note 2 Miscellaneous Poems, XIII.

page 49 note 1 Architectural Societies Reports and Papers, vol. iii, A, p. 19.Google Scholar

page 49 note 2 Hans Erlandsson, The Orientation of the Cathedral of Lund. Published by the Observatory, Lund, Sweden, 1948.

page 50 note 1 Loc. cit.

page 50 note 2 Journ. Anthropological Inst., vol. xx, p. 17.Google Scholar