![]() ![]() Also the arrangement of the four major buttresses and the eight smaller buttresses around the chevet can here be very clearly seen. ![]() Within the apse the three steps to the high altar are clearly visible. 2 one can see the (semi-) circular chevet with the rounded choir ending of the apse enveloped by the double ambulatory. 2 is given here: Paris Notre Dame – old engraving plan Fig 2Īt the top of the plan shown in Fig. 2 Plan of the Notre Dame Cathedral at Paris Source: Ī PDF version of Fig. 2 is an old engraving (published in Diderot’s Encyclopedie ) showing the entire floor plan of the Notre Dame at Paris ( click the image to enlarge):įig 2 Notre Dame de Paris – floor plan -old engravingįig. Another reason for showing this engraving is that it can be of help in interpreting some of the details along the outer edge of the chevet’s the laser-generated plan of Fig.1, which, as said, are more difficult to discern. It will put the laser plan of the Paris’ chevet in the context of the overall cathedral’s plan. 2 an old engraving of the entire floor plan of the Paris Notre Dame Cathedral as a reference. In addition, in this particular plan (Fig.1) of the Paris cathedral’s chevet, the contours close to the outer perimeter of the chevet are not very well visible.įor these reasons I think it is helpful to show in the next Fig. This makes the laser generated floor plans a bit harder to “read”. In the laser-measured plans, however, the solid walls, piers and buttresses are shown in black contour only and their inner shapes remain white. These shapes are shown against a white or light-grayish background that may contain blackish markings of inner objects or “furniture” as “detected” by the laser beams scanning the interior space. In the latter plans the outlines of solid piers, walls and buttresses are shown in black and their shapes are ‘filled-in’ with black to indicate their solidity, while the white background denotes ‘open, empty space’. A laser-generated plan makes a different visual impression on the reader compared to pen-and-ink drawn plans. Legibility and readability of laser-measured plansĪ few words on the ‘legibility’ and ‘readability’ of laser-measured plans in general are in order here. This picture shows on the left hand side the choir, the choir-ending, the apse, and on the right hand (Eastern) side the double ambulatory and the radial chapels between the four major buttresses of the chevet. Note the four piers of the apse are placed around the circle with each center positioned at the vertices of (part) of an octagon. 1 is given here: Paris Notre Dame Cathedral Chevet Apse Ambulatory Circles Raidii Fig 1 Paris ‘ Notre Dame Cathedral plan of the Chevet as determined by laser measurements.Ī PDF version of Fig. Notre Dame at Paris Chevet with Apse and Ambulatory circles radii – laser scanįigure 1. The radii of these circles have been determined by laser-measurement at 6.65 m, 12.42 m, 18.18 m and 23.94 m respectively (Bork/Tallon). The second (semi-) circle runs through the centers of the ambulatory columns, the third circle runs along the outer edge of the ambulatory and the fourth, outermost circle runs around the chevet. The first circle (red) runs through the apse across the centers of the four piers forming the apse. The following picture (Fig.1) shows this floor plan onto which four circles have been projected. The Laser-measured Floor Plan of the Chevet of Paris ’ Notre Dame Cathedral. ![]() ![]() A plan of this part of the cathedral was published by Bork in the ‘open access’ journal EAHN based on the laser measurements by Tallon. For our study the apse and chevet of the Paris cathedral are of particular interest. in 1163 AD, after Abbot Suger had given the impetus (1144 AD) with his rebuilding of the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis in a style we now recognize as pre-gothic. A look at the plans of Beauvais’- and Chartres Cathedral was written about in the last post.įrom the three cathedrals mentioned in the title of this post the cathedral in Paris had the earliest beginnings, viz. In this post the plan of the Paris Notre Dame Cathedral and it’s chevet in particular will be looked at from a design point of view in the light of my conceptual reconstruction of the Chartres floor plan presented previously (post of 28 Sept 2016 and later). ![]()
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