All of the churches below set a standard for Western Rite Orthodoxy. Western Riters are not Roman Catholics or Anglo-Catholics temporarily sheltering in the Orthodox Church. They are in fact westerners returning to their Orthodox roots severed at the end of the first millennium. Therefore our churches and Altars ought to follow the nearest they can to the last Orthodox Western Rite that existed then. Such churches did not have multitudes of candles on the Altar. In fact they had none on the Altar – only beside or above it. Today a reasonable development is to restrict ourselves to two candles on the Altar, much as they had two beside it. We have where possible a Rood Screen between the nave and the Altar to demarcate the Holy of Holies with the Altar (Throne of God) in it. Our ceremonial is slow and dignified as befits the ceremonial before the Throne of God.
Guildford school chapel
Hampnet Parish Church
Hampton Court Chapel
Brisbane cathedral
Ripon Cathedral
Saint Elvan Aberdare
Salisbury Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral
Saint Leonard’s, Newland, Worcester
Saint John’s Chapel, Tower of London
Trinity College Chapel, Oxford
Saint Bartholomew, Dublin
Saint Martin first millennium France
Saint Tielo, Wales
Sarum Saint Martin
Spanish first millennium basilica
Saint Birinus, Oxford
Saint Mary Undercroft, Westminster
The Lower Church Russian cathedral London for Western Rite
Offertory Procession
Censing the Altar
Blisland Parish Church, Devon
Exeter Cathedral
Saint Mary the Virgin, Egmanton
Manchester Cathedral
Saint Materne, Walcourt
ORTHODOX WESTERN RITE 