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Figure 138. A Siin-dial at Swardeston. 



consecration crosses (Figure 

 142) are now in the out aide 

 wall ! Til is is also the easy 

 explanation of sun - dials 

 being found inside churches. 

 Secondly, we must remember 

 that the " Reformers " and 

 their immediate successors 

 have left their trace every- 

 where ; scarcely anything 

 which is sacred or even that 

 which is simph- ecclesio- 

 logicall)' interesting appears 

 to have escaped them. One 

 finds consecration crosses 

 ni u t ilated, " embellished," 

 ami duplicated; sun-dials 

 duplicated (more or less 

 faultilv) and originals either 

 mutilated or " improved " 

 b\' added radii, and so on ; 



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in fact, where the examples 

 are well weathered it is often 

 extremely difficult to dis- 

 tinguish the true from the 

 false. 



The suggestion that Saxon 

 dials are consecration crosses 

 found many supporters, but 

 that they were mistaken is 

 easilv shewn. The consecra- 

 tion of a Catholic church is 

 a most interesting ceremony 

 occup\-ing several hours, 

 and as all the churches 

 directly or indirectlv re- 

 ferred to are pre- Reforma- 

 tion, a brief reference to the 

 crosses (Figures 142-144 and 

 147 and 148) will be inter- 

 esting, and will explain what 

 proved a difficulty to so 



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