Alain Villes

Ľancienne grande fleche de la cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Châlons-en-Champagne

The tower of the cathedral in Châlons-en-Champagne was topped by a big wooden helmet, completed according to an older model in 1520 and destroyed after a fire in the 1660s. After a brief survey of the construction history of the cathedral, the author of the study focuses on the original look of the tower and on its functional and style qualities.

Full-text in the Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences:
https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/uuid/uuid:4d129816-19ab-4db9-8c72-8fb0942aacc3

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