Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Chartres Cathedral' has mentioned 'Stone' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The stone pillars were covered with stucco, and the tapestries which hung behind the stalls were replaced by marble reliefs. | WIKI |
| Chartres floorplan (1856) by Eugxc3xa8ne Viollet-le-Duc (1814xe2x80x931879) The elevation of the nave, showing the gallery on the ground level; the narrow triforium; and, on top, the windows of the clerestory Flying buttresses supporting the upper walls and counterbalancing the outward thrust of the vaulted ceiling, allowing thin walls and greater space for windows Flying buttresses seen from above The vaults of the roof, connected by stone ribs to the pillars below, combined with the flying buttresses outside make possible thinner walls, and the great height and large windows of the Cathedral | WIKI |
| [14] These heavy columns of stone were joined to the walls by double stone arches, and reinforced by columns, like the spokes of a wheel. | WIKI |
| Each of these columns is made from a single piece of stone. | WIKI |
| Another architectural innovation at Chartres was the design of the massive piers or pillars on the ground floor which receive the weight of the roof through the thin stone ribs of vaults above. | WIKI |
| The weight of the roof is carried by the thin stone ribs of the vaults outwards to the walls, where it is counterbalanced by the flying buttresses, and downwards, first through columns made ribs joined together, then by alternating round and octagonal solid cored piers, each of which bundles together four half-columns. | WIKI |
| Although the sculpture on the portals at Chartres is generally of a high standard, the various carved elements inside, such as the capitals and string courses, are relatively poorly finished (when compared for example with those at Reims or Soissons) xe2x80x93 the reason is simply that the portals were carved from the finest Parisian limestone, or ' 'calcaire' ', while the internal capitals were carved from the local "Berchxc3xa8res stone", that is hard to work and can be brittle. | WIKI |
| It was built without an interior wooden framework; the flat stone sides narrow progressively to the pinnacle, and heavy stone pyramids around the base give it additional support. | WIKI |
| The two rows of alternating octagonal and round pillars on either side of the nave receive part of the weight of the roof through the thin stone ribs descending from the vaults above. | WIKI |
| The high ornamental stone screen that separates the choir from the ambulatory was put in place between the 16th and 18th century, to adapt the church to a change in liturgy. | WIKI |
| The bishop's palace, also to the north, is built of brick and stone, and dates to the 17th century. | WIKI |
| You know it might be just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand choiring shout of affirmation, which we choose when all our cities are dust, to stand intact, to mark where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us, to accomplish. | WIKI |
| Our works in stone, in paint, in print are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash. | WIKI |