Croix-sur-Ourcq, La, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
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Building Data for Croix-sur-Ourcq, La, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

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  • Type: Parish
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Aisne
  • Coords: 49.168, 3.3541
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  • Surveyed: 1980-83, 2015

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Timeline and building units for Croix-sur-Ourcq, La, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption 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 Croix-sur-Ourcq, La, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption 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.
1060

Phase 1 - 1060 [1067] - apse (d) - 34 Units


Apse with dado and a flat east end, can be followed in the lowest courses where the same weathered courses around the east wall of the apse and the south wall. This included the dado and ended at the crossing pier. In the east wall these courses continue to the underside of the continuous drip mould. The crossing pier on the NE corner seems part of this same phase. The pilaster under the eastern crossing capital was added onto the wall and suggests this was a separate campaign, possibly in the next phase as the dimensions of the pilaster match those in the nave.
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1060

Phase 2 - 1060 [1068] - nave (a) - 35 Units


The nave piers, aisle capitals, the crossing pilasters and arcade arches on both sides have similar stonework and dimensions; with intentions for aisles and transepts; the setback just two courses above the arches at the eastern end suggests where this campaign stopped, just over the arcade arches; the floor slopes to the west; at the west end of nave the wall finishes with an irregular junction, and it was the later west wall that closed the space.
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1060

Phase 3 - 1060 [1069] - crossing - 25 Units


The crossing capitals and the arch between them were laid after the arcade arches; the arches are large and the seating may have been stabilised with a few more courses along the nave walls, apparently to just below the level of the clerestory window sills.
1060

Phase 4 - 1060 - nave (c) - 30 Units


The nave clerestory wall to north and south completed to cornice.
1070

Phase 5 - 1070 - s aisle


Later still, grooves were cut into the exterior of the south wall that suggests an intention for an aisle, perhaps in timber.
1080

Phase 6 - 1080 - s blocked - 12 Units


All openings on the south side at both levels were subsequently blocked, and this may have protected the outside capitals where the wear is less than on the inside.
1080

Phase 7 - 1080 - n aisle - 24 Units


North crossing external wall at aisle level with round-arch doorway could have been next, though now it is blocked.
1150

Phase 8 - 1150 [1153] - tower base - 24 Units


Tower base (possibly intended as a chapel) and room above butted onto the side of the apse.
1150

Phase 9 - 1150 [1154] - tower II - 30 Units


Tower level II
1220

Phase 10 - 1220 - north - 25 Units


North arm added with tracery that has since been replaced.
1230

Phase 11 - 1230 - east - 12 Units


Rebuilt east wall, probably demolishing the entire wall above the level of the drip mould to make room for the tracery windows; at the same time the north wall was rebuilt with an large opening into the apse, and rib vaults; there is a clear joint where the north-east buttress on the east meets the one facing south.
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1240

Phase 12 - 1240 - n aisle - 18 Units


Nave north aisle wall western two bays in two stages with an enlargement of the north aisle window.
Later

Phase 13 - Later - west wall


West end of nave filled in with masonry with square openings, tied in with irregular junctions into the nave walls.