Provins, Sainte-Croix
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Building Data for Provins, Sainte-Croix

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Ile-de-France
  • Department: Seine-et-Marne
  • Coords: 48.561, 3.2985
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  • Surveyed: 1977, 1980-83, 2015

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 Provins, Sainte-Croix

1201/1253



Built during the reign of Thibaut IV

HOC REGNANTE, URBS NOSTRA POPULIS ADEO IMPLETUR, UT CAPELLA SANCTI LAURENTII DE PONTIBUS,...ERIGATUR.

During which reign, the people of our town requested, that the chapel of Saint-Laurent of the bridge,...be built.

Source: Claude Moissant, Campaniae comitum genealogia et brevis historia, Paris, 1607, 20, but he gives no source.

1234



Started.

1234, EO TEMPORE CAPELLA SANCTI LAURENTII DE PONTIBUS FUIT ERECTA IN PARROCHIAM SANCTAE CRUCIS.

At this time the chapel of Saint-Laurent of the Bridge was built in the parish of Sainte-Croix.

Source: Maillé, G.A. de R-C. de, Provins, les monuments religieux, 2 vols., Paris, 1939,

From Canon Potet, Provins MS 215, pg. 29, without sources. He died in 1747.