Bouconvillers, Saint-Étienne
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Building Data for Bouconvillers, Saint-Étienne

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Oise
  • Coords: 49.176, 1.9026
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  • Surveyed: 1972-74, 2003

Map

Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Documents for Bouconvillers, Saint-Étienne

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The spire

...donc en l’année 1156 a jeter les premiers fondemens de dix sept eglises paroissales dans les compagnes voisines de Meullent leur ville capitale, tous les edifices furent achevés en moins de six a sept ans avec clochers en pierres de taille d’une belle structure comme tous les voyon encore aujourd’huy dans les paroisses de Gavancourt, Clery, Condecourt, Gaillon, Tepancourt, Hardicourt, Jambville, Livray, et plusieurs autres,...

... in 1156 built the first foundations of seventeen parish churches in the country near their capital city Meulun, all of the buildings were achieved in less than six or seven years with towers of cut stone and of such fine structure as those which can be seen today in the parishes of Gavancourt, Clery, Condecourt, Gaillon, Tepancourt, Hardicourt, Jambville, Livray, and several others,...

Source: Lévrier, Memoires historiques sur les ville, comté, baillage et siège principal de Meullent, 1767, fol. 136. Also BN, Collection du Vexin, xxxxv, fols. 131-136.

From the chronicle of Saint Nicaise at Melun, Count Galeran II (1118-1166) swore in 1142, that if he returned from the crusade he would pay for work on seventeen churches. With his wife he only began in 1156. See James and Gardner, 1996/97, 9-10, for an assessment of which churches were involved.