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Old 04-13-2016, 01:43 PM
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I will always remember listening to the conversation of two women behind me as we walked up to the Cathedral. One woman was very upset that they hadn't built the towers identical. "Why didn't they make them symmetrica?"l. They just went on and on about how it was so wrongly designed. Obviously they had not studied their history first.
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Old 04-13-2016, 01:47 PM
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I will always remember overhearing a conversation between two ladies behind us as we walked up the Chartres Cathedral. One was very upset that the two towers were so different. "They are supposed to be symmetrical, why would anyone make them so different." They just went on and on about how it was so terribly designed. Obviously they had not studied their history first.
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Old 04-13-2016, 02:25 PM
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I will always remember listening to the conversation of two women behind me as we walked up to the Cathedral. One woman was very upset that they hadn't built the towers identical. "Why didn't they make them symmetrical?" They just went on and on about how it was so wrongly designed. Obviously they had not studied their history first.
I don't want to make a formal study of it - I'm retired - but I'm guessing that asymmetrical towers are quite common on churches. Thinking back on the church I grew in - built 1840 in classic white clapboard Presbyterian/Congregational/Reformed style. Very rural America. It is now on it's forth pair of towers. None symmetrical and none repeating past towers. Symmetry is only one tool for an architect/builder. In the case of that church, at the time it was built women and men had separate entrances which were through the towers. Indeed, there was a partition right down the middle of the stall-like pews. Of course, men had the dominate tower. The second revision was after the Civil War when a spire was put onto one tower. The other tower was topped with a cupola for the bell. Very odd appearance. The third set of towers were before WWI. What had become the main entry got a full blown rural church steeple housing the bell. Think Norman Rockwell. The final - so far - renovation was about twenty years ago when time and sandstone foundations had caused a lot of structural issues. Plus not so much money anymore for rural churches. The pitch of the roof was lowered and both towers were leveled off at different heights. No spire.
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I guess everything is on the internet now. Including tiny rural churches. Yep. Another renovation. Now it's symmetrical - no towers at all! Actually a nice renovation visually. Solving some things that annoyed me about the first roof pitch change. And they've changed the name again - reverted to admitting they are Presbyterian!
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:01 AM
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Lighter, thanks for the info. Bet you got nostalgic looking at your old church.

More progress. Completed the roofing all around.
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And the north portal of the transept.
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A problem here. The balcony shown earlier is very delicate and does not stand up to much punishment. To relieve the stress, I cut the lower ends of the pillars and plan to reattach them at a later date. In retrospect, it would have been better to attach these pieces at this stage of the construction rather than right at the beginning.

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Life's been busy. My mom is not doing well. Haven't been able to work on the model. She's now at my brother's place giving my wife and me a respite for a short while.

Managed to complete the North Tower of the transept.
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My hat's off to all care-givers. Respite care is very important
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Another brief respite allowed me to complete the South Tower of the transept and the Chevet with its chapels and its roofing.

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That's some beautiful detail work. Hope your Mom improves and that you're able to post again soon.
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