Collaborative Efforts in Building Guédelon Castle: A Medieval Construction Experiment
By
benbreen
An everything bagel for the brain. Substantive, layered, well-seasoned.
Summary
The article details the collaborative efforts of a diverse team of craftsmen, historians, and archaeologists in constructing Guédelon Castle, a thirteenth-century fortress in France. It highlights the challenges faced, such as the intricate process of installing a Gothic-style stone window frame, and the ongoing resolution of such issues. The project serves as a living experiment in medieval construction techniques.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledSometimes it takes a village to raise a window.
Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon Castle’s ornate Chapel Tower.
All that remained was to install some glass. But there was a problem, and the carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, basket weavers, historians, and archaeologists who work on-site were all enlisted to figure it out.
Eight years later, the matter of what to put in the window of a medieval castle has nearly been resolved…maybe.
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