Footnotes:
[71] Huet, Origines de Caen, p. 12.
[72] Upon this subject, Huet has an extraordinary observation, (Origines de Caen, p. 186.) "that, in the early times of Christianity, it was customary for all churches to front the east or north, or some intermediate point of the compass."--So learned and careful a writer would scarcely have made such a remark without some plausible grounds; but I am at a loss where to find them. Bingham, in his Origines Eccleslasticæ, I. p. 288, says, "that churches were so placed, that the front, or chief entrances, were towards the west, and the sanctuary or altar placed towards the east;" and though he adduces instances of a different position, as in the church of Antioch, which faced the east, and that of St. Patrick, at Sabul, near Down in Ulster, which stood from north to south, he cites them only as deviations from an established practice.
[73] Cotman's Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, t. 20.
[74] Antiquities of Ireland, p. 151.
[75] See Cotman's Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, t. 18, 19.