Labeled Floor Plan Of Chartres Cathedral

In the previous post no 8 th the eastern half of the ground plan with apse and choir including the crossing and the transept was presented together with many of the detailed dimensions these dimensions are all given in the ancient french cistercian measurement units together with their.

Labeled floor plan of chartres cathedral.

Cathédrale notre dame de chartres is a roman catholic church in chartres france about 80 km 50 miles southwest of paris and is the seat of the bishop of chartres mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220 it stands at the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since the diocese of. The oldest parts of the cathedral are its crypt and the west portal or royal portal which are remnants of a romanesque church that was mostly destroyed by fire in 1194. A search that eventually turned into an attempt to re conceive and reconstruct the floor and the elevation plan of chartres cathedral. Also there are no dimensions shown nor is there a measurement key given no scale indication.

Cathedrals are some of the most intricate works of art ever created. In this post i want to expand on the first post s story of starting the search for understanding the design of the chartres floor plan. Chartres cathedral world heritage site chartres cathedral france. Gallery of notre dame haiti cathedral 33 floor plan of notre dame de paris chartres cathedral notre dame de paris sainteustache paris notredame de.

Chartres cathedral analysis of the floor plan posted on august 27 2015 by aelenoble in the previous post i searched for possible patterns in the floor plan using a rather detailed floor plan published by jean villette and a plan available on the web that is based on the work of dehio and bezold. Chartres cathedral also known as the cathedral of our lady of chartres french. It sounds a bit ambitious i know. Visit the post for more.

The present cathedral was constructed on the foundations of the earlier church and consecrated in 1260. By convention ecclesiastical floorplans are shown map fashion with north to the top and the. In this post i want to expand on the first post s story of starting the search for understanding the design of the chartres floor plan. A search that eventually turned into an attempt to re conceive and reconstruct the floor and the elevation plan of chartres cathedral.

Light double lines in perimeter walls indicate glazed windows. S drawing of the chartres cathedral floor plan does not have any of drawn to scale indication shown on it. Built by countless men over decades there are a lot of pieces to these architectural puzzles. In western ecclesiastical architecture a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.

In this 11 th post the final reconstruction of the floor plan of chartres cathedral will be presented.