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
