Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . urope. It was begun at the west end,instead of as was usual at the east, the object probablybeing to save the ancient church of S. Firmin till asufficient part of the new cathedral was built, beforepulling it down to make way for the new choir. Thefirst stone was laid by Bishop Evrard de Fouilly in12 20, and the nave seems to have been occupied in 1236in the time of his successor, Geoffroy dEu. This in-cluded the nave to the top of the vaults, and the westfront with the statuary of the great portals and the rosewindow above them. The choir fo
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . urope. It was begun at the west end,instead of as was usual at the east, the object probablybeing to save the ancient church of S. Firmin till asufficient part of the new cathedral was built, beforepulling it down to make way for the new choir. Thefirst stone was laid by Bishop Evrard de Fouilly in12 20, and the nave seems to have been occupied in 1236in the time of his successor, Geoffroy dEu. This in-cluded the nave to the top of the vaults, and the westfront with the statuary of the great portals and the rosewindow above them. The choir followed, and the radiatingchapels of the apse were finished in 1247. Funds thenran short, work was suspended till 1258, and the choirwas not finished till 1269, a date which appears in theglass of the apse clerestory. The side chapels of thenave were added rather late in the 14th century, and in1366 the completion of the west front from the galleryabove the rose was undertaken; but the north tower wasnot finished till the 15th century. Plate XXVIII. AMIENS CATHEDRAL ch. vii] AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS 117 A labyrinth, or house of Daedalus1 in the floor, Amienswhich was destroyed in the last century, and is now Thereplaced by a copy, had an inscription in brass round the arch,tectcentre, giving- the date 1220 when the church was begun,and the names of Bishop Evrard, King Louis, and thethree architects employed on the work, the last of whomsays he placed this inscription here in 1288. ******Chil qui maistre yert de lceuvreMaistre Robert estoit nommesEt de Luzarches surnommesMaistre Thomas fu apres luyDe Cormont et apresSes filz maistre Regnault qui mettreFist a. chest point chy ceste lettreQue rincarnacion valoitXIIIC ans XII en faloit. In the centre were figures of the bishop and the threemasters of the work, inlaid in white marble2. There is nothing to tell us what part each of thethree took in the design, unless an inscription overthe south transept door, of which the date 1220, a men
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