The dating found here is based on the work of John James, and is meant on this site to serve as a starting point. James' dating is derived from a system that uses his interpretation of the development of capitals over time as the basis for chronology, among other factors. His goal is to refine the dating to within years rather than decades. I have not fully embraced James' methodology, and will be developing this page from its current state to one which is admittedly more conservative. The relative expenditure values found in the Timeline are also based on James' work, and I believe these to be reasonably reliable. They are intended only to give a sense of the amount of work involved in each decade.

I have added the idea of the "project" as a way of separating work in buildings. In my mind, a "project" is a discrete section of work in a building that resulted from the one-time acquisition of funding. "Projects" are generally separated by at least a decade where no work was being done. It is my view that it would have been unwise to start a "project" that could not be finished and protected from the elements, and as such a "project" usually involved a wing or multiple wings of a building, from floor to roof. Rural churches, which could only secure small amounts of funding at irregular intervals, often were the result of many small projects, while the great churches, which benefitted from relatively consistent funding, may have involved only a few large projects.

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The four piers of the crossing were erected with the south chapel with large buttresses supporting each pier up to just below the capitals where there is a reduction in the width of the interior NE buttress at the level of the apse string course, suggesting a pause; there may have been an earlier hemicycle apse where the present apse is, and an older nave to the west.

The apse of 2 bays was butted against the crossing and built to just above the piscine; if there had been an older apse it was removed at this time.

The north transept was butted against the crossing, and in the second campaign with pointed barrel vaults; the junction noted in reduced NE2 buttress and now that the crossing was well-supported, the next stage of the crossing could be started.

South transepts butts into crossing, different plinths, S-w door

Walls raised for vaults with capitals and arches

Raised the crossing with the capitals and rib vault to support the tower

Tower I

Tower II

Count Galeran pays for the spire.

The entire west front as a hoarding without any work to the nave, with the west portal, stairs and capitals, similar to the later "hoarding" construction at Courmelois.

Nave piers and capitals inserted between west front and crossing, no walls in the aisles

Nave gallery, some shafts 8-sided, some 16, with capitals and varied imposts, so progress may have been slow.

North aisle wall and vault

South aisle wall and vault.

Clerestory in the nave, capitals, vaults, western rose window.