[Sca-cooks] Cathedral building times

[margali]

LOL, some of the smaller cathedrals did *only* take 20-30 years...not 
every cathedral was a NotreDame de Chartres or Paris...most of them are 
actually smaller. The one in Rouen is about half the size of either 
Chartres or Paris, and it took 25 years to build. It is about the size 
of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, or about the size of a larger mundane 
american catholic church. Dainty little thing, if my parents ouse hand't 
burned i would still have pictures of it=)
margai
and i thing the national cathedral is in its 80th or 90th year...


Stefan li Rous wrote:


> I think your figure of 20 to 30 years is a bit low. You may be as much 
> as a magnitude off, although the fact that such construction was often 
> done in phases may obscure this a bit.  However, I don't have any books 
> that would give me these numbers handy. I think that even major 
> expansions could take fifty years.
> 
> For a modern example, look at the national cathedral in Washington DC. I 
> seem to remember that it's construction has been going on for longer 
> than 20 or 30 years. And that is with modern construction machines.