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Structure-ID: s0000272
Created on: 05/21/99
Modified on: 04/04/08


Notre-Dame de Paris

Built: 1177 - 1240
Status: in use
Address: 6 place du Parvis Notre-Dame
Location: On the Ile de la Cité, 4th arrondissment, Paris, Ile de France, France
Notre-Dame de Paris
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Structural Type:
Gothic vault
Function / usage:
Church

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
  Raymond du Temple
Initiator Maurice de Sully
Architect Jean de Chelles
  Pierre de Montreuil
Renovation
Architect Paul Abadie
Restoration
Architect Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus
  Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
building structure  masonry

Chronology
1163
First stone is laid. Bishop Maurice de Sully begins with the reconstruction of the cathedral.
1175
Beginning of works on the nave.
1177
Choir finished except for the vaults.
1196
Roof construction on-going.
1210
Work on the western façade begins.
1215
Western spans of the nave are completed.
1220
Modification of the flying buttresses. Construction of buttresses to take wind loads on top of the gutter walls.
1220
Rose in western façade (diameter 9.60 m).
1220- 1225
Towers are finished.
1230
Beginning of enlargement of high windows.
1230- 1240
Eastern chapels at the northern end of the nave by Pierre de Montreuil.
1245- 1248
Chapels near the choir by Pierre de Montreuil.
ca. 1245- 1296
Northern transept - widening of one span, chapels and façade according to plans by Jean de Chelles.
1250
Northern rose by Jean de Chelles (diameter 12.90 m).
1258
Southern transept - widening of one span and façade by Jean Chelles the Pierre de Montreuil.
1260
Southern rose by Pierre de Montreuil (diameter 12.90 m).
1725- 1727
Reconstruction of the southern rose by Claude Penel under the guidance of architect Boffrant and at the cost of the Cardinal de Noailles.
1844
Beginning of restoration works by Viollet-le-Duc.
1861
Restoration of the southern rose by Viollet-le-Duc who modifies the outer tracings.

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External LinkDiscover France! Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris English
External LinkEarthlore: Notre Dame de Paris English
External LinkFromParis - Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris English
External LinkGreat Buildings Online: Notre Dame de Paris English
External LinkInsecula: Archictecture de Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkInsecula: Histoire de Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkJean-Pierre Riocreux: Les vitraux du cloître de la cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris French
External LinkL'architecture religieuse en Occident: Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkL'histoire par l'image: Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkMairie de Paris: Notre Dame French
External LinkMairie de Paris: Notre Dame English
External LinkMary Ann Sullivan: Tympana of the West Front, Notre Dame (the Cathedral of Paris) English
External LinkMinistère de la Culture: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkMonum: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (2) French
External LinkNotre Dame, Paris (Mary Ann Sullivan) English
External LinkNotre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkPbase: Notre-Dame de Paris English
External LinkPhoto-en-Ligne: Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris French
External LinkRiocreux: Les vitraux du cloître de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French
External LinkRomanes.com: Notre Dame de Paris French
External LinkSacred Destinations: Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris English
External LinkUniversité du Québec: Musique: Orgues: France: Cathédrale Notre-Dame English French
External LinkWikipedia: Catedral de Notre-Dame de Paris Portuguese
External LinkWikipedia: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de París Spanish
External LinkWikipedia: Cattedrale di Notre-Dame (Parigi) Italian
External LinkWikipedia: Dipatrino de Parizo Esperanto
External LinkWikipedia: Ecclesia Nostrae Dominae Lutetiae Latin
External LinkWikipedia: Katedra Notre-Dame w Paryżu Polish
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External LinkWikipedia: Katedrala Notre-Dame u Parizu Croatian
External LinkWikipedia: Nhà thờ Đức Bà Paris Vietnamese
External LinkWikipedia: Notre Dame Danish
External LinkWikipedia: Notre Dame de Paris German
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External LinkWikipedia: Notre Dame Katedraal Afrikaans
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External LinkWikipedia: Notre Damen katedraali (Pariisi) Finnish
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External LinkWikipedia: Notre-Dame de Paris Romanian
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External LinkWikipedia: Notre-Dame de Paris (kyrka) Swedish
External LinkWikipedia: Notre-Dame van Parijs Dutch / Flemish
External LinkWikipedia: Paräisser reliéis Gebaier Luxembourgish
External LinkWikipedia: Parīzes Dievmātes katedrāle Latvian
External LinkWikipedia: Παναγία των Παρισίων Greek (modern)
External LinkWikipedia: Света Богородица (Париж) Bulgarian
External LinkWikipedia: Собор Парижской Богоматери Russian
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External Linkウィキペディア: ノートルダム大聖堂 (パリ) Japanese

Relevant Literature
* Paris (1st edition), Editions Mengès, Paris (France) , ISBN 2-8562-0462-7, 2005; pp. 14-15.
* Aubert, Maurice   Les vitraux de Notre-Dame et de la Sainte Chapelle de Paris, Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, CNRS, Paris (France) , 1959.
* Christ, Yvan   Cathédrales de France, Editions des Deux-Mondes, Paris (France) , 1963; pp. 216.
* Collombet, François   Les plus belles cathédrales de France, Sélection du Readers Digest, Paris (France) , ISBN 2709808889, 1997; pp. 214-219.
* Crépin-Leblond, Thierry   Paris. La cathédrale Notre-Dame, Monum. Editions du Patrimoine, Paris (France) , ISBN 2858223645, 2000.
* de la Monneraye, Jean   Paris, Horizons de France - Société Française des presses suisses, Paris (France) , 1968.
* Denizeau, Gérard   Histoire visuelle des Monuments de France, Larousse, Paris (France) , ISBN 2035052017, 2003; pp. 88-91.
* Dumoulin, Aline   Reconnaître Paris d'église en église, Massin, Paris (France) , ISBN 2707205834, 2008; pp. 92-101.
* Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain   Histoire de l'architecture française (Tome 1), Editions du Patrimoine, Mengès, Paris (France) , ISBN 2856203671, 1995.
* Heinle, Erwin   Türme aller Zeiten - aller Kulturen (3rd edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3421029318, 1997; pp. 140.
* Kimpel, Dieter   L'architecture gothique en France 1130-1270, Flammarion, Paris (France) , ISBN 2080109707, 1990.
* Mark, Robert   Le gothique: une architecture empirique, Pour la Science, 01/1985.
* Mark, Robert   High Gothic Structure, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton (USA) , ISBN 0943012058, 1984; pp. 8-11.
* Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie   L'art de Paris, Editions Place des Victoires, Paris (France) , ISBN 2844590659, 2003.
* Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie   Le guide du Patrimoine: Paris, Ministère de la Culture - Hachette, Paris (France) , ISBN 2010168127, 1994.
* Prache, Anne   Île-de-France romane, Editions Zodiaque, La Pierre-qui-Vire (France) , 1983; pp. 69-70.
* Recht, Roland   Les bâtisseurs des cathédrales gothiques, Editions Les musées de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France) , ISBN 2901833012, 1989.
* Stoddard, Whitney S.   Art & Architecture in Medieval France, Icon Editions (Harper & Row Publishers), New York (USA) , ISBN 0064300226, 1972; pp. 136-145.

 
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