- Building Information
Presles-et-Thierney
(Aisne, France)
Saint-Georges
Surveyed: 1980-83, 2015
- Locator Map
Presles-et-Thierney (Aisne, France) - Saint-Georges
- Disclaimer
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.
- Timeline with Relative Expenditure (if available, in building units)









- Project A - 1070s - Phase 1 - east (aw)
Apse for plain vault includes north apsidiole and walls for south (though may not have been built)
- Project A - 1070s - Phase 2 - east (rc)
Tall wall above windows to roof cornice
- Project A - 1080s - Phase 3 - nave
Western piers of crossing and west walls of transepts with carved imposts instead of capitals
- Project A - 1080s - Phase 4 - tower base
Nave W1-2 with shaft on inside; in WS2 joint 2 course above aisle impost because arch set in while W1 arches have smaller inset for upper part, rest of arches seem altogether.
- Project B - 1110s - Phase 5 - nave 3-5
Nave 3-5 no inner pilaster with west wall, which extends across aisles and two W-w windows, but no further.
- Project B - 1110s - Phase 6 - west door
West door part of nave, tower base
- Project C - 1130s - Phase 7 - south
Line inside of south transept with large corner shafts and arches to support tower.
- Project C - 1130s - Phase 8 - tower I
W2 pilaster stops at bottom clerestory sills, probably in line with tower I, and seemsthat tower and clerestory were built together so that when this wall was completed buttress added on nw corner tower; there was no indication of this buttress below cornice.
- Project D - 1160s - Phase 9 - porch
Porch
- Project E - 1180s - Phase 10 - crossing
Crossing with shafts for vaults, en delit
- Project E - 1180s - Phase 11 - south (v)
Octagonal south transept vault under tower
- Project E - 1190s - Phase 12 - north, south (t)
North
- Project E - 1200s - Phase 13 - tower II
Tower II
- Project F - 1240s - Phase 14 - nave (a)
Nave arcades