Funding the Early Gothic Churches of the Paris Basin (original) (raw)

Parergon, 1997

Abstract

Chartres to the southwest—an area of less than 200 by 140 ktiometres with Paris lying in the western haU. Ninety percent of these churches Ue within the geological formation k n o w n as the Paris Basin, consisting of a limestone caUed calcaire. There is excetient butiding stone beyond the Basin, mainly in hard chalk and sandstone, but few butidings with Gothic motifs were butit from other than calcaire until the 1220s.

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