Bruyères-et-Montbérault, La Visitation
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Building Data for Bruyères-et-Montbérault, La Visitation

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Premontre
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Aisne
  • Coords: 49.524, 3.6640
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  • Surveyed: 1980-83, 2003, 2015

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Timeline and building units for Bruyères-et-Montbérault, La Visitation 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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1090		 20
1100		 gray 145
1120		 270
1130		 88
1140		 gray 18
1160		 25
1170		 gray
1050 1090s 1100s 1120s 1130s 1140s 1160s 1170s 1250

Phases for Bruyères-et-Montbérault, La Visitation 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.
1090

Phase 1 - 1090 - choir (b) - 34 Units


Choir in many campaigns; too hard to disentangle without an accurate survey; among the anomalies: varied arrangements of external drums and shafts, windows not central between external shafts, and on the interior oriented away from the main axes, curves outside walls look flattened as if made from arcs with separate centres, diameters of drums get smaller above the sills, wall set back from plane of drums in south corner, heads of windows straight, and curved only between them;
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1100

Phase 2 - 1100 [1100] - choir walls - 20 Units


Choir lower walls
1120

Phase 3 - 1120 [1129] - choir (a) - 100 Units


Choir exterior sculpture with pause above the larger ones over the half drums where small capitals alongside come from a later campaign; chapel es2 later than taller ones in the east; many small campaigns.
1120

Phase 4 - 1120 [1129] - north - 45 Units


North arm; es1w (c-) has 4 capitals that would be earlier than es1n clerestory, with later capitals set around them; therefore northern set of shafts were added; shows that the transept chapel was earlier (but has a drum and joined to centre); rib caps at 45 and are not built in while the way that e1 is set into the wall shows the ribs are later
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1130

Phase 5 - 1130 [1130] - north raised - 55 Units


Earlier capitals raised and thin additional capitals set around them
1130

Phase 6 - 1130 [1132] - choir (a+) - 60 Units


Upper walls of choir with small exterior capitals set alongside larger ones over drums; cornice
1130

Phase 7 - 1130 [1136] - east (c+) - 155 Units


Raised the east 8 courses and moved caps up with them; es1w (c-) group of 5 capitals would be earlier than es1n(c), so northern set of shafts were added; therefore transept chapel earlier (but has a drum and joined to centre); rib caps at 45 (ribs
1140

Phase 8 - 1140 - nave - 88 Units


Big arches over double bays from nave only on north side; nave clerestory; used to have a wooden ceiling in the nave;
1160

Phase 9 - 1160 - tower - 18 Units


Tower
1170

Phase 10 - 1170 [1175] - south (d) - 25 Units


South transept dado seems to have been spolia from a cloister erected at a much later date.
Later

Phase 11 - Later


Much later work in the transepts with windows and vaults