Beauvais Cathedral Construction Sequence

Beautiful! Can you make the same for the Utrecht Dom Church (former st Martin’s cathedral)? It’s nave collapsed after a storm in 1674, but probably also as a result of poor building (due to a lack of funds).

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Good video. Interesting history. I heard that it was the pumping out of the constantly flooded underground parking garage on the other side of town, near the Mairie, that had caused the wet sub-structure around the cathedral foundations to dry out and to cause movement resulting in the wooden buttresses to be added for protection in the 90s.

Merci pour cette vidéo ! Super travail, Habitant à Beauvais, j'avais déjà lu l'histoire de la construction mais cette vidéo permet de beaucoup mieux comprendre cette longue histoire de construction 🙌

Will there more construction sequence videos on other cathedrals, like Saint Gatien in Tours or Notre Dame in Chartres, etc?

What a marvellous resource- exquisitely rendered, immaculately narrated. A gold standard for those aiming to be educative, informative and entertaining. Bravo All.

Anor Londo.

I know my next Minecraft idea…

"Backward medieval peasants" constructed this with some basic tools. Nowadays, concerete and glass shapleess abominations are built and they call it architecture and moderna art.

Incrível!

I think any cathedral can be improved by placing umbrella shooting bowmen on the buttresses.
Beautiful nonethless.

Omg this video is amazing!! Great visuals and super interesting story… I hope you’ll make more!!

The Beauvais and Butte-Heade cathedrals

Simply superb. I’m an architect. Visited Beauvais in 1962. This is brilliant. Informative. And sad too.

Wondering if you could do one of the Christchurch Cathedral, even though its not as grand as this.

Those smoke effects are really unnecessary.

It's kinda sad we don't still build churches like this. Now they're justass produced buildings, look like super markets

The things Europeans built/can build is awe inspiring.

I feel like a Beauvais Cathedral construction sometimes.

Thank you for this remarkable video! What you don't mention is that the iron tie rods have existed between the buttresses since they were built in the Middle Age, and that it was the thoughtless intervention of an architect of historic monuments in the 1960s that led to their removal, on the grounds of presumed "historical inauthenticity". It didn't take thirty years for worrying structural disorders to be observed in the building and for attempts to be made to stabilise it using these wooden supports, before installing new tie rods that were less effective than those used in the Middle Age, some of which acted as tension rods while others acted as compression springs in a complex assembly designed to absorb the vibrations resulting from the violent winds blowing over the hill on which the cathedral is built.

i kinda want to see it finished ;((

It is actually'"funny" to see how it is, indeed, not even perfectly aligned.

Merveilleuse explication concernant la construction de cette superbe cathédrale, la nef la plus haute de France et qui a résisté aux bombardements anglais et allemands en 1940. Longue vie à la cathédrale de Beauvais ! Merci !

Great work work Sir. Thank you.

The fake smoke is really annoying.

Very interesting and well put together… ⛪️🧐

Thank you, for the fantastic insight into the mind-boggling complexities that constitute the constructional aspirations of a cathedral like Beauvais. I believe there are issues with the pier design, that do not help with the preservation of this gorgeous building.

Well done! Thank you for such a detailed presentation. The graphics are excent and beautifully drawn. I visited this cathedral 25 years ago and it is still impressive even though it was never finished. One small suggestion...The background music had a tendency to drown out your narration. I don't think the music is necessary, or at least make it as quiet as possible.

Awesome animation! A story well-told and illustrated. Bravo

Very intresting 5*

My absolute favorite of all cathedrals. I never saw it, so it's an impossible dream.

I wish everything that could be would be taken off, and the whole thing destroyed, but then rebuilt correctly, an exact replica of the full grandest design, but perhaps without the tower.

Amazing!

Great work!
why was the stumpy version more appropriate for the 16th century? (I do like it better though)

Why did you add music that makes it hard to hear your narration?

wonderful presentation!! Thank you for all this hard work.

Hello, could you please do such a video for Notre-Dame de REIMS ? thanks a lot.

Just deconstruct it, fix the problems and rebuild it, and FINISH it. Why must everything in the modern world view old things as dead exhibits that must be preserved exactly as they were before the last hundred years.let the ruins sit because they’re pretty and contemplative?

Interesante la reconstrucción de la histórica Iglesia en sus etapas, anteriores y en actual majestad de Arquitectura de alto nivel como en aquellos tiempos Gloriosos........ Es una alegría fortaleza inmensa su restauración como corresponde a Francia....Gracias mil gracias

Either you die a christian or live long enough to see yourself attempting to build the tower of babel

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If you like this I recommend reading Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth.

Great vidéo, I just visited this cathedral yesterday and had so much questions about it. Your work allowed me to understand the chronology of succès and fails leading to such a strange cathedral.
Thanks a lot 👍

This is such a nice video, I loved it. I'd like to add that there is a third culprit to the two collapses, in addition to design flaws and strong winds: The low quality/strength of the "local" stone used.

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You’ve earned a new subscriber with that effort. Well done.

Finally, there it is! What a story this is. Makes sense why it took ages to build a cathedral. Spectacular details and excellent story telling. What a work this must have been to put this all together. Both the video AND the cathedral in real life. Awesome.

As always, an excellent video Myles. Despite its multiple collapses and continuing structural problems, and its incomplete condition, this has always been one of my favorite Gothic cathedrals. I love it not only for its great height, impressive as that might be, but also for its design. The Rayonnant clerestory of the hemicycle is magnificent. I only wish the original straight bays of the choir, with their wide arcades, allowing dramatic views into the aisles, had been preserved. I also love the much later transept facades --perhaps the <ahem> pinnacle of Flamboyant Gothic design.

I do wonder what you and Professor Murray think of Robert Mark's structural analysis of the choir collapse. I don't have the reference immediately available, but if I remember correctly he thought that the immense height of the exterior buttress piers and the nearly horizontal slope of the flyers may have contributed to the collapse, and you touch on that in the video. Do you think more steeply sloped flyers, perhaps vaulting over both aisles in the manner of Notre Dame, Paris, might have stiffened the structure enough to prevent the collapse? As for the central tower, the church authorities were foolish to even consider a tower of such height on such slender piers. I can't help but feel their ambition outweighed their common sense. I am surprised that any mason would have even considered building it.

As an aside, I absolutely love the Flamboyant design for the west front. I know it's conjectural, but it lives up to the promise of the transept facades.

As always, I very much enjoy your animations and historical accounts. I had a general idea of how far construction went as well as a few collapses, but this has solidified my understanding of them much more extensively. I would love to pick your brain sometime over your research with French Gothic. ;-)