Provins, Saint-Quirace

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Building Data for Provins, Saint-Quirace

Type: Collegiate
Affiliation:
Region: Ile-de-France
Department: Seine-et-Marne
Coords: 48.560, 3.2915
Surveyed: 1972-74, 1980-83, 2009, 2015

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Timeline and building units for Provins, Saint-Quirace

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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 Provins, Saint-Quirace

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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.


	Phase 1 - 1140 - choir (b) - 150 Units Choir wall bases all together, though levels change; the E-e chapel has massive shafts and bases and the whole choir was designed for groin vault (as indicated in the carved heads to support the ribs; perhaps built before the south door.


	Phase 2 - 1140 [1140] - n choir door - 15 Units The north transept door has teeth in the impost (as in Chartres), probably built with lower aisle walls before the crusade


	Phase 3 - 1150 [1154] - e choir (a) - 90 Units Apse to E4 aisle impost profiles are a simple scotia in piers and in walls, which I presume were the earlier team; the heads supporting the ribs indicate that the walls were not originally designed for ribs.


	Phase 4 - 1150 - w choir (a) - 76 Units Choir to crossing impost profiles are more complex with a scotia over a roll in piers and walls, with vaults that have a groove on one side of the roll and none on the other, similar to Noyon, Nouvion and Soissons south.


	Phase 5 - 1150 [1158] - choir (t) - 100 Units Choir triforium walkway steps down at -w to top of arcade arches with a joint in string one-third into bay; a large campaign so all triforium capitals by the one team, and the apse remained ahead of the next three bays; a break is indicated by the number of shaft-rings that change from 4 in apse to 3, with one in middle of string course.	Load More... See Less...


	Phase 6 - 1160 [1164] - choir (c) - 120 Units Choir clerestory and window sills.


	Phase 7 - 1160 [1166] - choir (cw) Choir window capitals without supports for flyers at this stage.


	Phase 8 - 1180 [1186] - e chapels - 30 Units Two lateral eastern chapels added.


	Phase 9 - 1190 [1190] - choir (c+) - 140 Units Choir upper walls with buttresses and vaults 2-4, with flyer that meet the wall at level of the window capitals.


	Phase 10 - 1200 [1205] - w crossing - 30 Units W1 plinths and a separate campaign for torus course; the next may have included capitals to a joint in course 4 of arch with small separate campaigns for wall bases and each drum; intention for drums in W3 bases changed to building of terminal wall, and with only the start of the dado and in Wn1 intended a wider bay with bases for a wider dado arcade while in the south all three dado arches are equal.	Load More... See Less...


	Phase 11 - 1210 - choir (d) - 40 Units Choir dado inserted, with bases at top of plinth in north, under plinth in south, while in the nave the dado capitals and plate windows like Essomes.


	Phase 12 - 1220 [1222] - nave 1-3 (a) - 60 Units Nave arcade 1-3 completed after decision to finish the church in W3. Join to west of lowest arcade arches in WN1 and 2.


	Phase 13 - 1230 [1238] - north (d) - 28 Units North transept dado


	Phase 14 - 1230 - north (t,c) - 35 Units Nave W1 triforium, and transepts north, south on both sides with triplet plate arches.


	Phase 15 - 1230 - choir s portal - 25 Units Choir south portal


	Phase 16 - 1240 - trans (c) - 40 Units Transept walls with tracery and vaults, and later the west wall from apex of W2 arcade arch and W2 triforium, with vaults and bec caps.