There is an interesting article on the stations of the cross -- and variations and dates in churches -- in the catholic encyclopedia: <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm> -- Richard Langley
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Frans W. Maes wrote: >Hi Frank, > >In Roman Catholic churches I noted always 14 Stations, numbered I-XIV. >Generally, they are placed symmetrically along the walls of the nave, thus >nr. I-VII on one side and VIII-XIV on the other. > >Regards, >Frans Maes > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Frank Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Sundial" <sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de> >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:10 PM >Subject: church interior dial > > >> Greetings fellow dialists, >> This is not really off topic, more off centre, perhaps. The church at >> Dalton-le-Dale, County Durham, England has what until now has been >> thought two dials. One is an important Anglo-Saxon dial of around 700 >> AD, mounted on a later wall. The other, the object of my question, is a >> series of numbers on the inside north wall of the nave of this >> thirteenth century church. >> >> Mrs. Gatty describes them incorrectly: "There are some remains of a dial >> on an interior wall of St. Andrew's Church at Dalton-le-Dale; only the >> numerals I to VII are to be seen now, and these are raised in relief >> upon the plaster, and are said to conceal an older set of figures. The >> hours would be shown when the sun shone through the south window." >> >> There is a story currently told that the sun shone on the easternmost >> number on St. Andrew's saint's day, 30 November from a former hole in >> the roof. Given the low angle of the noon sun on that day this is quite >> impossible >> >> The numerals on the north wall of the nave are in fact VII to XII, not I >> to VII, arranged linearly from west to east and occupy most of the >> length of the wall at a height of about a metre. They were viewed by >> members of the British Sundial Society during their meeting in Durham a >> few weeks ago and the general consensus was that the numbers could not >> be any form of time measure. A proposal was that they had been placed >> under successive Stations of the Cross pictures and that they had >> survived where the pictures and the numbers I to VI on the south wall >> had not. >> >> My question is this: What is the history of Stations of the Cross in the >> Church of England. Presumably some must be pre-Reformation but they >> would generally have been extinguished by Cromwell's men and the puritan >> movement. Could the numbers have survived, without pictures, from the >> seventeenth century and a gradual story have grown up about their >> representing a sort of sundial? >> >> Speculation welcome. >> Frank 55N 1W >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> > >--------------------------------------------------- >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
