Senlis, Notre-Dame
Building Data for Senlis, Notre-Dame
- Type: Cathedral
- Affiliation:
- Region: Picardie
- Department: Oise
- Coords: 49.206, 2.5859
- Surveyed: 1969, 1977, 1980-83, 2003, 2014
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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 Senlis, Notre-Dame
1151/55 or 1156Bishop Theobald's works VII. KAL. MARTII - OBIIT THEOBALDUS EPISCOPUS QUI HANC INNOVAVIT ECCLESIAM ET DEDIT NOBIS CAPELLAM SUAM CUM ANULO. Eighth of the calends of March: Obit Bishop Theobald who had renewed the church and dedicated for us its ring of chapels. Source: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS Latin 9975, fol 19. |
1154Louis VII recommends the works to the faithful. ECCLESIA SANCTAE MARIAE SILVANECT. MEDIA CORRUENS VETUSTATE, INNOVATUR A FUNDAMENTIS, ET USQUE ADEO INSIGNE COEPERUNT OPUS... The church of Notre-Dame at Senlis, the middle falling down from old age, was restored from the foundations, and from this point they began the work... Source: GC, 1751, x, col. 1401. |
1155Louis VII is interested in the new church, and he recommends the works to the faithful ECCLESIA S. MARIAE SILVANECTENSIS NIMIA CORRUENS ANTIQUITATE, INNOVATUR A FUNDAMENTIS; ET USQUE ADEO INSIGNE INCOEPERUNT OPUS,... The church of Notre-Dame of Senlis utterly falling down from age, was renewed from the foundations; and this signalled the beginning of the new work,... Source: Mortet, 1995, 96. D. Bouquet, Collection des historiéns des Gaules, xiv, 484. WRONG SOURCE |
1155±Works need to be done ECCLESIA S. MARIAE SILVANECTENSIS, NIMIA CORRUENS ANTIQUITATE, INNOVATUR A FUNDAMENTIS; ET USQUE ADEO INSIGNE INCOEPERUNT OPUS, QUOD SINE CARITATE FIDELIUM CHRISTI ET ELEEMOSYNIS NUNQUAM POTUERIT CONSUMMARI. The church of Notre-Dame of Senlis, falling down from great age, was restored from the foundations, and from this point they began the work, which would not have been possible without the charity and alms of the faithful in Christ. Source: Recueil des Historiens, xvi, 15. |
1167/68Louis VII founded a second lamp before the altar in the choir PETITIONEM VESTRAM QUAM FECISTIS DE AMPLIANDO LUMINARI ECCLESIAE VESTRAE NOS ROGANTES AUDIVIMUS...CONSTITUIMUS...UT CUM UNA LAMPADE QUAE SOLET ARDERE IN ECCLESIA VESTRA, AMODO UNA ALIA ARDEAT, ET IN SANCTUARIO CIRCA ALTARE LOCO CANDELARUM SINT CEREI. We have received your petition to increase the lighting in your church...although you are accustomed to burning a single lamp in your church, henceforth you may burn one other, and in the sanctuary around the altar you may place wax candles. Source: GC, 1751, x, cols. 1456-1457. Dated 1167/8 by Luchaire, 1890, 597-598. |
1169Louis VII visited and found choir dark. ...IN QUA VISITATIONE DIDICIMUS, QUIA SECUNDUM DEBITAM REVERENTIAM NON ILLUMINABATUR ECCLESIA, ET LUMINARE DECREVIMUS AMPLIARE DE QUATUOR CEREIS AD SERVITUM ALTARIS. ...in which visitation we have learned that the church is poorly illuminated, and we decided to increase the illumination by four candles serving the altar. Source: GC, 1751, x, col. 1479. |
1184Date affirmed in a charter of Bishop Henri (1167-1185) ...QUOD PRAEDECESSOR NOSTER THEOBALDUS EPISCOPUS BONAE MEMORIAE, QUI PRAEFATAM COEPIT INNOVARE ECCLESIAM, PIISSIMI REGIS LUDOVICI DEVOTO ASSENSU, OBLATIONUM OMNIUM MEDIATATEM CANONICIS IBIDEM DEO SERVIENTIBUS POST CONSUMMATIONEM OPERIS HABENDAM CONCESSIT... In memory of our former bishop Theobald, who we mentioned had altered the church, pious King Louis giving his permission, half the oblations would be given to the canons as servants of God after the completion of the works... Source: Archives de l'Oise, Beauvais, Serie G Cathédrale de Senlis, supplement porte, fol. 4. |
1185Bishop Henri bequeathed stained glass and furnishings IX KAL MARTII - OBIT HENRICUS ISTIUS CIVITATIS EPISCOPUS...QUI HANC ECCLESIAM VARIIS ORNAMENTIS DECORAVIT, CRUCIFIXUM ARGENTEUM NOVUM FECIT, SUPER CHORUM VITREAM UNAM FECIT, TAPETA DUO, VESTIMENTUM PONTIFICALE, THURIBULUM ARGENTEUM,... Obit Henri, bishop of this city...who adorned this church with various ornaments, had made a silver cross, had a window made above the choir, two tapestries, a pontifical vestment, a silver censer,... Source: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS Latin 9975, fol. 18. |
1190Chaplaincy of Saint-Michel and another chapel. ...QUAM PRESENTIBUS QUOD GUILLELMUS LUPUS,...IN ECCLESIA BEATE MARIA SILVANECTENSIS CENTUM ET VIGINTI LIBRAS AD EMENDOS REDDITUS DUOBUS SACERDOTIBUS, UNUS AD ALTARE BEATI MICHAELIS, ALTER AD ALIUD ALTARE IN EADEM ECCLESIA,... ...the gifts of Guillaume le Loup,...in the church of Notre-Dame of Senlis 120 pounds for the establishment of two priests, one for the altar of Saint-Michel, the other for another altar in that church,... Source: Archive de l’Oise, G. Chapitre cathédrale de Senlis, supplement fol. 1. |
1191, 16 JulyDedicated. DEDICATIO ECCLESIAE BEATAE MARIAE SILVANECTENSIS, 1191 ...GAUFRIDUS HUJUS SANCTAE SEDIS EPISCOPI ANNO SEXTO, MENSE JUNIO, XVI. CALENDAS JULII, AD LAUDEM DEI, IN HONOREM BEATISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE DEDICATA ET CONSECRATA EST ISTA ECCLESIA. Dedication of the Church of Notre-Dame in Senlis, 1191 ...Godfrey the sixth year bishop of this holy see, month of June. The 16th of July, for the praise of God, this church was dedicated and consecrated in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Source: Gallia Christiana, Paris, 1751, Instrumenta, x, 224, No.34. "June" here probably indicates that the sixth anniversary of Gaufridus' episcopacy had just passed - the date of the document being 16 July, 1191. |