Bourgogne, Saints-Pierre-et-Paul
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Building Data for Bourgogne, Saints-Pierre-et-Paul

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  • Type: Parish
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  • Region: Champagne-Ardenne
  • Department: Marne
  • Coords: 49.349, 4.0694
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  • Surveyed: 1977, 1980-83, 2003, 2014

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Timeline and building units for Bourgogne, Saints-Pierre-et-Paul A 'building unit' is an arbitrary unit of work based on bulk billing techniques used by quantity surveyors. The unit is small enough to provide realistic figures in the small churches without becoming too huge in the large. Six units would pay for one small vaulted bay in an aisle about 3 metres square, or a small first-floor gallery. Such a bay would consist of an external wall with a small window, half of two columns about 3 meters tall, the floor and footings under them and the vault and roof overhead.
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A 'building unit' is an arbitrary unit of work based on bulk billing techniques used by quantity surveyors. The unit is small enough to provide realistic figures in the small churches without becoming too huge in the large. Six units would pay for one small vaulted bay in an aisle about 3 metres square, or a small first-floor gallery. Such a bay would consist of an external wall with a small window, half of two columns about 3 meters tall, the floor and footings under them and the vault and roof overhead.

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1110		 22
1120		 80
1130		 gray 22
1150		 14
1160		 gray 130
1190		 gray 6
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Phases for Bourgogne, Saints-Pierre-et-Paul The building sequence is based on my on-site analysis of the construction history, using the techniques developed on the cathedral of Chartres called toichology, and described in a number of publications. The analysis of some of the smaller churches are more approximate than I would like, and need further analysis. <p>I have used 'phase' rather than 'campaign' to to identify a contiguous zone with similar elements. A campaign would be defined by recognisable breaks and construction joints in the fabric: there may be a number of phases within a campaign. One benefit is that separate programs by subcontractors, such as carvers, may be isolated, which is particularly useful in complex sections, such as portals. <p>Every phase has been assigned to a decade, so there may be more than one phase in a decade. <p>While this is certainly imperfect, it will allow us to explore all the data, including costs, across time. This is an on-going process, so as the data continues to be analyzed, the chronology and costing analysis will be further refined, and the synopsis updated. <p>Clicking on any of the decade graphics will display all buildings that had work being done during that decade.
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The building sequence is based on my on-site analysis of the construction history, using the techniques developed on the cathedral of Chartres called toichology, and described in a number of publications. The analysis of some of the smaller churches are more approximate than I would like, and need further analysis.

I have used 'phase' rather than 'campaign' to to identify a contiguous zone with similar elements. A campaign would be defined by recognisable breaks and construction joints in the fabric: there may be a number of phases within a campaign. One benefit is that separate programs by subcontractors, such as carvers, may be isolated, which is particularly useful in complex sections, such as portals.

Every phase has been assigned to a decade, so there may be more than one phase in a decade.

While this is certainly imperfect, it will allow us to explore all the data, including costs, across time. This is an on-going process, so as the data continues to be analyzed, the chronology and costing analysis will be further refined, and the synopsis updated.

Clicking on any of the decade graphics will display all buildings that had work being done during that decade.
1110

Phase 1 - 1110 - north, south - 33 Units


North and south arms with groin vaults, presumably added to sides of an earlier smaller church;
1120

Phase 2 - 1120 - crossing - 22 Units


Crossing and upper levels in transepts;
1130

Phase 3 - 1130 [1130] - east - 20 Units


East built in a dozen small campaigns with the vaults; e1 and 2 piers designed for ribs to where south steps back, 8 courses in all, and includes walls for transepts to outer sides of entries to nave; work steps down on walls on west side to below where entry arches will be; e1 piers with square bases, larger rib shaft diameters than e2, and as dimensions do not match built in separate campaigns; estimate that the e2 wall was built separately and to the east of the earlier apse, and that the e2 pier involved the demolition of the first apse./
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1130

Phase 4 - 1130 - east (c) - 20 Units


Though separate in the lower courses, once above the e-s window the two were bays were built together from bonding into the es2 pier; built to top e-e windows, could include capitals and imposts and start of vaults with imposts that face in the direction of the ribs; there is a matching window on the north; the coursing allows an opposite interpretation, in which the lateral walls and the piers they sit on in e1 were built with upper arches and 'window' into upper room, because this window with its arch is pressed against the underside of upper arch;
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1130

Phase 5 - 1130 - east (a+) - 20 Units


E-e upper cruciform window, walls all round over windows with encasing arches; includes reinforcing arches in e1; vault e1-2 domical; no shafts, just a square pier; centre e2 arch offset to north, so infill over it is larger on south side; e1 arch offset slightly to the south (the opposite); no changes in lowest courses;
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1130

Phase 6 - 1130 - north - 20 Units


Two campaigns on the north to fill wall on north because these arches measure 3,90 to key from floor while south is 4,55 to key from floor;
1150

Phase 7 - 1150 - w crossing - 22 Units


W1 piers with arches into nave aisles; add shafts onto west side of e1; lateral chapel on north, 1 bay has a vault, but southeast corner is hard to disentangle;
1160

Phase 8 - 1160 - tower II - 14 Units


The upper tower constructed
1190

Phase 9 - 1190 - nave (b) - 30 Units


Nave constructed in five campaigns to the clerestory and west rose; sets out, all together; no sign of junctions left after restoration, so let the changes to the profiles tell the story; first two to aisle vaults,
1190

Phase 10 - 1190 [1195] - nave (a) - 30 Units


Pier and wall caps and buttress drip; impost and ring mould; large rolls in arcade arches, and all three vault profiles carved together; looks like all vaults were finished at the same time;
1190

Phase 11 - 1190 - nave (c) - 35 Units


Clerestory string and capitals and spring, and start windows; buttress with projecting copings;
1190

Phase 12 - 1190 - nave (v) - 35 Units


Complete walls and vault, w-w rose; some piers are square and some set at 45, which indicates changes in crews
1230

Phase 13 - 1230 [1230] - W-w - 6 Units


The western portal was installed;