Construction Trades

 Construction Trades

The stained glass windows in the Chartres Cathedral show 43 different trades who built this "wonder" about 800 years ago:

Foundation digging 8 mtrs deep

Choir and Buttress construction

Wooden Roof Construction

Laying lead sheets and gutters

Finished roof and buttresses

Construction of Transepts

Winter Break

Glass sphere transfer

Glass spinning to a disc

Rose window construction

Starting of Nave construction

Vault: wood scattering

Mortared bricks + Keystone

Vault construction of
wooden lattice +
layers of small bricks +
10cm layer of concrete to stabilize

Tower Construction

Lost-wax Bell Casting

Bronze pouring

Smooth, tuned Bell

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