France, Jumièges, Abbey Church of Notre-Dame | Gothic Choir Professor Lynn Courtenay

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In the second half of the 13th century various abbots began to expand the church of Notre Dame at the east end with the first campaign of rebuilding the choir between ca 1254 to 1278. The new transepts, also with galleries, were finished about 1327. The gothic choir had pointed arches, steep proportions, and an ambulatory with 7 radiating chapels with an extended axial chapel (see plan). At this time the nave, side aisles, and transepts received new roofs erected in a steeper pitch as indicated by the roof scar seen on the west face of the crossing tower (discussed below).



France, Jumièges, Abbey Church of Notre-Dame,
Plan by Georges Lanfry showing Gothic choir

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