After the visitor has entered the church, images of the calendar can still be found. They can appear in many places, including on the floors, in the windows, and on the fonts. Both the occupations of the months and the signs of the zodiac can be shown.
Thus, these symbols of time appear along side of traditional biblical stories and depictions of saints' lives. Just as the doorway images present God as lord over time, these images inside the church also confirm the sacredness of time. The year is worth displaying because it in many ways embodies the dependence of humans on God's creation for life. Such an emphasis on God's creative power is most obvious in the frequent portrayal of the act of creation in stained glass windows. The calendar year images underline this emphasis on God's creation and domination.
The depiction of the calendar year on baptismal fonts, in particular, likely associates the repeating year with rebirth in Christ: as Christ died and is reborn, so the year comes to a close but then begins again.(1) This imagery makes it especially appropriate for a baptismal font which conveys the resurrection power of Christ to the baptized.
(1) Folke Nordström, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographic Study (Stockholm, 1984)