Marle, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
MARLE

Building Data for Marle, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Aisne
  • Coords: 49.740, 3.7706
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  • Surveyed: 1980-83, 2015

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Timeline and building units for Marle, 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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1180		 135
1190		 80
1200		 28
1210		 50
1220		 gray
1050 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s 1250

Phases for Marle, 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.
1180

Phase 1 - 1180 [1180] - apse, south (b) - 147 Units


Foundations and bases to east and south chapel
1180

Phase 2 - 1180 - east - 120 Units


Eastern aisle capitals in chapels with transept walls and start of the south nave aisle wall to Ws2, vaults later; the apse vaulting caps level with the lower string course in transepts, while in the west this sits under the triforium, but in east this is as high as it was meant to go; the apse windows would then have been arched over above the caps [the lower string could have been intended to be the base of the clerestory windows]
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1190

Phase 3 - 1190 - apse (c) - 65 Units


Raised height of crossing and transepts with blank walls on the east, and in the apse by steeply pointed and peaked arches for a tall vault and very tall windows
1190

Phase 3 - 1190 - crossing (c) - 70 Units


Crossing shafts with simple well-designed caps built with south transept to the clerestory level with smallish windows while the start of tall triforium in WS1 made much smaller after first shaft with the south at all times ahead of north
1200

Phase 4 - 1200 - W5 (a) - 80 Units


W5 aisle caps
1210

Phase 5 - 1210 - nave (t) - 28 Units


Nave triforium
1220

Phase 6 - 1220 [1225] - s transept (c) - 25 Units


South transept
1220

Phase 7 - 1220 - tower - 25 Units


Tower
Later

Phase 7 - Later


Rest of triforium and nave clerestory, and north transept, south aisle wall 2-6 and external wall of the north aisle from Wn1, including dado; also the west wall and even later nave drum piers together both sides, drum caps all to same template