Cambronne-lès-Clermont, Saint-Étienne
construction history in phases
CAMBRONN

Building Data for Cambronne-lès-Clermont, Saint-Étienne

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  • Type: Parish
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Oise
  • Coords: 49.330, 2.3986
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  • Surveyed: 1977, 1980-83, 2003, 2005, 2014

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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.

Timeline and building units for Cambronne-lès-Clermont, Saint-Étienne 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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Phases for Cambronne-lès-Clermont, Saint-Étienne 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.

Short version of history

Earlier

Phase 1 - Earlier


An apse and square bay occupied the space to the east of the present nave;
1110

Phase 2 - 1110 [1110] - north wall - 12 Units


North arm and north nave aisle to west wall with dado arcade, smaller shafts or pilaster, possibly for groin vaults, in a number of small campaigns; the eastern joint is by the stairs on the outside; probably only the lower 9 courses to putlog holes below windows; small indications of changed contractors are that the dado on the south side is not same as the north, nor are the windows to the same detail, and the wn5 buttress is deeper and narrower than ws5 buttress;
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1110

Phase 3 - 1110 [1111] - south (a-) - 10 Units


South bay with opening into nave aisle wider than north by 20m; only the head cap sw1s aisles remains;
1110

Phase 4 - 1110 [1112] - south (a) - 14 Units


South caps and vaults with caryatid supports under the ribs, very domical form and peaked arches, non-structural boss; position of wall on south indicated at the west end, and on the east to above the door in the first choir bay, now blocked;
1130

Phase 5 - 1130 [1130] - west - 8 Units


Set out short section west end of south aisle to middle external buttress and the lower stones of the small west window; joint lies to south of this middle buttress; also in the north completed transept walls with oculus high up in the west wall;
1130

Phase 6 - 1130 [1132] - crossing (a) - 12 Units


Crossing not designed for ribs, with shafts and capitals; widened to the north where shafts lie over the earlier rib shafts; demolition of older square bay, though apse probably left in place;
1130

Phase 7 - 1130 [1132] - crossing (c) - 10 Units


Crossing vault sits on corbels;
1150

Phase 8 - 1150 [1154] - n nave (a) - 24 Units


North nave arcade piers for ribs, with work more advanced at the eastern end, and bases only along the west wall; shafts added over the face of the north aisle wall; wall included part of window in first bay; continued around north transept to its capitals and the stairs; included the first aisle window on the north, as it is small and set higher than those along the rest of the west wall;
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1150

Phase 9 - 1150 [1155] - w portal - 20 Units


West door and encasing buttresses not bonded into earlier adjacent walls; the northern interior pier wn5 had been begun earlier and in this campaign both were extended over the inner face of the west wall; the south shafts cover part of the earlier dado; includes the capitals in the portal; it is probable that there had been an earlier west entry into the church that had supported the aisle vaults, and there was some reconstruction on the north side for the new capitals;
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1150

Phase 10 - 1150 [1156] - w nave (a) - 10 Units


On the interior the capitals to either side of the west door and to about the heads of the western windows
1160

Phase 11 - 1160 [1161] - s nave (a) - 50 Units


South nave aisle, capitals and vaults at the same level as the north aisle; the external wall had been begun in a different campaign; octagonal room over crossing;
1160

Phase 12 - 1160 [1162] - nave (c) - 33 Units


Nave clerestory and vaults in at least three campaigns, with the capitals with the west window;
1160

Phase 13 - 1160 [1163] - tower II, spire - 50 Units


Both levels of the crossing tower with the spire;
1230

Phase 14 - 1230 [1230] - east 1-3 (a) - 40 Units


Eastern two bays of the choir and their piers and aisle vaults to the top of the capitals in the triforium; stepped joints to the east of buttresses; removal of the older apse;
1230

Phase 15 - 1230 - east 3-5 (t) - 54 Units


Two eastern bays of choir with and es3-s door;
1240

Phase 16 - 1240 - east 3-5 - 54 Units


Two eastern bays of choir triforium, clerestory and vaults
Later

Phase 17 - Later


South nave aisle wall moved to the south and arcade piers raised with the vaults into the clerestory windows that are still there in outline; the vault and arcade arches were constructed from c12 profiles that suggest the earlier vault had been taken down and rebuilt at the higher level; the gable roof had a gutter over the arcade;
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