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   • Amiens Cathedral Construction Sequence  

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION:
1220c.1225 Master Robert de Luzarches began work on the foundations and lower wall.
He may have been assisted by Thomas de Cormont

122530 Master Robert de Luzarches and Thomas de Cormont constructed the south nave aisle
rapidly to provide space for liturgical celebrations

12301235 Master Robert de Luzarches and Thomas de Cormont built the north nave aisle
soon afterwards

1240sc.1250 Master Thomas de Cormont constructed the upper nave and belfries of western towers

c.1250 Master Thomas de Cormont died having completed the upper nave,
begun the upper transept and laid out the lower choir

1250s1260s Master Renaud de Cormont completed the upper transept and upper choir
The axial window of the choir clerestory was installed in 1269

1280sc.1310 Main roof installed from east to west

1360sc.1400 Construction of west towers

1528 Old steeple destroyed by lightning; construction of the grand clocher doré completed c.1533

Text by Stephen Murray