Paris, Saint-Martin-des-Champs
PARIS-MC

Building Data for Paris, Saint-Martin-des-Champs

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Cluniac
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  • Region: Ile-de-France
  • Department: Paris
  • Coords: 48.866, 2.3547
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  • Surveyed: 1969, 1977, 1980-83, 2003, 2005, 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 Paris, Saint-Martin-des-Champs 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 Paris, Saint-Martin-des-Champs 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.
1120

Phase 1 - 1120 [1122] - crossing - 20 Units


4 Faceter capitals here suggest an earlier part to the building placed at the junction with an earlier nave. Two capitals from the remains of the south tower have been included for the convenience of being of a similar date.
1120

Phase 2 - 1120 [1119] - east (b) - 50 Units


All wall footings, especially on axial chapel in a complex and very slow construction sequence analysed in Master Carvers Series #09 on The Duke.
1120

Phase 3 - 1120 [1120] - pier base A - 20 Units


Few courses in external walls, small program inside earlier church with piers bases A.
1120

Phase 4 - 1120 [1121] - pier base B - 80 Units


Pier bases B with additional work on external walls
1120

Phase 5 - 1120 [1122] - pier base C - 50 Units


Pier bases C, window sill and string
1120

Phase 6 - 1120 [1123] - pier base D (d) - 20 Units


Pier bases D, chapel plinths and dado.
1120

Phase 7 - 1120 [1124] - pier base E - 20 Units


Pier bases E and possibly pauses in the external walls while the rest of the pier bases were laid with minimal expenditure; there are ten different designs for these piers, and they are individual enough to ascribe to different teams and there being no coordination between them one presumes some considerable time between each one.
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1120

Phase 8 - 1120 [1125] - pier base F - 20 Units


Pier bases F
1120

Phase 9 - 1120 [1126] - pier base G (aw) - 20 Units


Pier bases G and the aisle window. caps and external capitals.
1120

Phase 10 - 1120 [1127] - pier base H - 20 Units


Pier bases H
1120

Phase 11 - 1120 [1128] - pier bases I - 20 Units


Pier bases I
1120

Phase 12 - 1120 [1129] - pier base J - 20 Units


Pier bases J
1130

Phase 13 - 1130 [1130] - choir (a) I - 40 Units


Central capitals in axial chapel, some pier capitals and arcade arch started in another complex process with five levels of capitals between the aisles and the entry into the axial chapel, six sets of profiles for the groin and rib vaults possibly caused by the many delays that involved as many masters as there are differences; and in addition no matter how we reconstitute or compress the details, we have to deal with eleven templates in the pier bases, three in the imposts, six in the aisle groin vaults and a further five in the eastern bays, a complexity that placed unusual demands on all who worked here - a good reason for none wanting to repeat this design elsewhere.
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1130

Phase 14 - 1130 [1131] - choir (a) II - 40 Units


Choir wall and piers capitals, impost 1 and arches 1
1130

Phase 15 - 1130 [1131] - choir aisle (rc) - 40 Units


Aisle wall cornice, impost 2, upper vault 2 and doubeau 2
1130

Phase 16 - 1130 [1131] - choir (a+) - 40 Units


Pier upper aisle capitals, impost 3, axial chapel vault and arcade arch 3.
1130

Phase 17 - 1130 [1132] - entry (c-) - 20 Units


Axial chapel lower aisle caps
1130

Phase 18 - 1130 [1132] - chapel (v-) - 40 Units


Chapel vault 1 begun with ribs 1 and doubleau 4
1130

Phase 19 - 1130 [1133] - chapel (a+) - 40 Units


Axial chapel (a+), mid arch 3, ribs 2, noting that the clergy could have moved into the middle portionat this time.
1130

Phase 20 - 1130 [1134] - choir (v) - 40 Units


Ambulatory roof, ribs 3, arches 5
1130

Phase 21 - 1130 [1135] - choir (c) - 40 Units


Choir clerestory, vault ribs 4.
1130

Phase 22 - 1130 [1136] - choir (s) - 40 Units


Clerestory window sills and ribs 5
1130

Phase 23 - 1130 [1137] - choir (cw) - 40 Units


Clerestory window capitals and the upper vaults.
1130

Phase 24 - 1130 [1138] - choir (rc) - 40 Units


Clerestory cornice, probably around 1138.
1140

Phase 25 - 1140 - towers I - 45 Units


Towers 1