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XXIII.—On Consecration Crosses, with some English examples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

John Henry Middleton Esq.
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The Ceremony of the Consecration of a Church as it was practised shortly before the Norman Conquest is well described in a paper communicated in 1833 by Mr. John Gage, then Director, and printed in Archaeologia, vol. xxv. p. 235. He also gives in full the Consecration Service from an English MS. Pontifical of the eleventh century in the Rouen library.

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Archaeologia , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , 1885 , pp. 456 - 464
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1885

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page 456 note a Durandus, in his Rationale Divinorum Officiorwn, lib. I. c. vi. gives an interesting, though fanciful, account of the meanings of the various ceremonies in the Consecration Service.

page 457 note a In Brit. Mus. Library. See Archaeologia, vol. xxv. p. 277Google Scholar.

page 459 note a I owe this suggestion, as well as much other valuable help in working up this subject, to J. T. Micklethwaite, Esq., F.S.A. The crosses in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, mentioned above, have a woodplug in their centre, and another wood-plug 20 inches below—no doubt for the same purpose, for fixing the metal cross, and the candlestick or lamp below. The six side crosses are 8 feet above the floor, the three western ones more than 20 feet up.

page 459 note b Durandus, Rat. Div. Offi. lib. I. c. vi. n. 31; gives the reasons that make it necessary for a church to be re-consecrated:—First. If it is burnt so that all or the greater part of the walls have their surfaces destroyed, but not for the mere burning of the roofs. Second. If the whole or most part of the church falls down, but not if the church is rebuilt piecemeal. Third. If there is a real doubt whether the church ever was consecrated, and no record can be found.