Labeled Floor Plan Of Chartres Cathedral

Dashed lines show the ribs of the vaulting overhead.

Labeled floor plan of chartres cathedral.

Gallery of notre dame haiti cathedral 33 floor plan of notre dame de paris chartres cathedral notre dame de paris sainteustache paris notredame de. 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. It sounds a bit ambitious i know. 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.

Also there are no dimensions shown nor is there a measurement key given no scale indication. Chartres cathedral also known as the cathedral of our lady of chartres french. 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.

It is however drawn to rather fine detail suggesting measurements must have been used to be able to make this drawing. In this 11 th post the final reconstruction of the floor plan of chartres cathedral will be presented. 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. Cathedrals are some of the most intricate works of art ever created.

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. Built by countless men over decades there are a lot of pieces to these architectural puzzles. S drawing of the chartres cathedral floor plan does not have any of drawn to scale indication shown on it.

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. A search that eventually turned into an attempt to re conceive and reconstruct the floor and the elevation 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. Cathedral expert david macaulay breaks down the most important building terms for us.

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