Puiseaux, Notre-Dame
PUISEAUX

Building Data for Puiseaux, Notre-Dame

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  • Type: Parish
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  • Region: Centre
  • Department: Loiret
  • Coords: 48.204, 2.4722
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  • Surveyed: 1977, 1980-83, 2015

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Timeline and building units for Puiseaux, Notre-Dame 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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gray gray 25
1130		 gray 61
1190		 90
1200		 20
1210		 70
1220		 130
1230		 39
1240		 gray
1050 1130s 1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250

Phases for Puiseaux, Notre-Dame 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.
1130

Phase 1 - 1130 [1130] - choir - 25 Units


Choir probably single cell with thick walls, dated ex plaque in which nave 2 bays where now there is one; the square pilaster ES1s part original church and above the archway ES1-e is square and ES1e rectangular; to north and south the squashed bases are b
1190

Phase 2 - 1190 - choir walls - 61 Units


North choir aisles, south sits on earlier wall; all bases rectangular; choir walls En2-Es2 all round as piers have rectangular pilasters; with capitals to En1,2,3,4,5, EN5, ES5, etc.
1200

Phase 3 - 1200 [1212] - east (a) - 90 Units


East aisle vaults; there is a thin stone 1 course above arcade shows signs of a string course being chopped off and suggesting that work could have stopped just above this in 1210, ready for a low temporary roof and for occupation in 1212.
1210

Phase 4 - 1210 - s nave (a) - 20 Units


South nave doubled arcade with heights to match earlier, and remnants of arcade and low clerestory string removed with the large arches and south aisle of C15
1220

Phase 5 - 1220 - choir (c) - 70 Units


Choir clerestory
1230

Phase 6 - 1230 - n crossing - 30 Units


En1 and Wn1 crossing piers with squashed tori, octagonal plinths; also the wall Wn1-2 with the decision made here for taller aisles; EN1 replaces earlier and there is a joint to west of En1.
1230

Phase 7 - 1230 - west-n - 5 Units


West-n door
1230

Phase 8 - 1230 - nave pier - 40 Units


Pillier cantonee with triplet shafts, built to capitals; the transept joint to east of n1 part of the decision for wider bays; all erected within early nave.
1230

Phase 9 - 1230 [1230] - nave (a) - 33 Units


Nave aisles, n3-5 drums and wall
1230

Phase 10 - 1230 [1230] - w portal - 22 Units


West portal
1240

Phase 11 - 1240 - n transept - 24 Units


North transept string where the decision was made in N1 crossing caps where first triforium cap has square impost; there was preparation for this to string in the south where work stopped, their being no trace of triforium in S1 piers..
1240

Phase 12 - 1240 - nave (t) - 15 Units


Octagonal triforium capitals for a glazed triforium and windows
Later

Phase 13 - Later


Later pilasters added over south nave piers, leaving traces of earlier walls projecting, and with it the wide south aisle C15.