Gournay-en-Bray, Saint-Hildevert
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Building Data for Gournay-en-Bray, Saint-Hildevert

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  • Type: Collegiate
  • Affiliation: Augustinian
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  • Region: Haute-Normandie
  • Department: Seine-Maritime
  • Coords: 49.483, 1.7281
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  • Surveyed: 1980-83, 2004, 2015

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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 Gournay-en-Bray, Saint-Hildevert 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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1070		 62
1080		 gray 60
1120		 gray 80
1150		 152
1160		 50
1170		 53
1180		 35
1190		 50
1200		 gray
1050 1070s 1080s 1120s 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1250

Phases for Gournay-en-Bray, Saint-Hildevert 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


Eastern wall and laterals, and lower aisle walls in the nave
1070

Phase 2 - 1070 [1074] - w crossing - 40 Units


West crossing piers and wall shafts to aisle capitals, start of arcade arches.
1070

Phase 3 - 1070 [1075] - nave (a) - 34 Units


All the other bases to second last nave bay (or more) and caps 2-7 to first course above the impost.
1070

Phase 4 - 1070 [1079] - nave (a+) - 40 Units


Complete nave arcade with large shafts to articulate the clerestory; in the next phase the alternate shafts were omitted above the first course.
1080

Phase 5 - 1080 [1087] - east I (a) - 32 Units


East aisle partially built on southern side with some caps to E4, ES3, ES2e and some along south wall; I presume rest of church was in the way and work no further work was undertaken until phase 9.
1080

Phase 6 - 1080 [1087] - w crossing (c) - 30 Units


West wall of crossing; capitals worn giving the impression they were left exposed to the weather for the next 50 years; the choir clerestory walls had not been built at this stage, and as the subsequent confusion of work in phase 9 shows, there was some sort of building in the east, though possibly not as high as the western side of the crossing; an alternative way to unearth this history would be that the capitals had been placed lower down and raised later, though this raises problems with connections to the coursing in the nave triforium.
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1120

Phase 7 - 1120 [1128] - nave (c) - 60 Units


West crossing piers and triforium openings begun. Coursing shows how built together, though the capitals and their imposts suggest that the crossing pier capitals were a little earlier than those under the nave clerestory. Nave clerestory walls and four caps possibly over two campaigns with clerestory wall probably up to drip mould under windows; looks like there may have been additional openings where the intermediate shafts were added in phase 13.
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1150

Phase 8 - 1150 - transepts (b) - 80 Units


Lower transept walls, where 5 bands of rubble show number of campaigns, and square chapels
1160

Phase 9 - 1160 [1162] - choir (a) - 50 Units


Completion of choir aisle piers, reusing old caps from the 1080s and providing new ones, and vaults; I would presume that the confusion evident in this area was because the earlier choir stood in the way.
1160

Phase 10 - 1160 [1162] - s chapel - 12 Units


SE2-e chapel with square eastern wall.
1160

Phase 11 - 1160 [1163] - east (c,v) - 30 Units


Apse clerestory and high vaults.
1160

Phase 12 - 1160 [1166] - transepts (c) - 60 Units


North and south transept clerestories and high vaults.
1170

Phase 13 - 1170 - nave 2,4 (c) - 50 Units


Nave clerestory two eastern double bays with small caps set between the larger older capitals, and with them the start of the clerestory vaults.
1180

Phase 14 - 1180 - north chapel - 20 Units


Round chapel NE2-e set onto a square footing, inserted into NE2 bay.
1180

Phase 15 - 1180 - west (d) - 33 Units


Western bays of nave wall dado W6-7.
1190

Phase 16 - 1190 - west (a) - 35 Units


Western aisles caps over 2 piers.
1200

Phase 17 - 1200 - west (c) - 50 Units


West clerestory caps and vaults.