Noyon (Oise), plan of Notre-Dame.
After Seymour.
Noyon, Notre-Dame, south transept.
Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.
Stoddard.
consisting of sixty-nine canons, with vast holdings that included mills, vineyards, and
forests, was closely associated with the building campaigns for the cathedral. The body of
St. Éloi, a 7th-century bishop, was a prize possession of the chapter of Noyon and greatly
augmented revenue.
Between 1145 and 1150, following a fire of 1131, a decision was reached to construct
a new cathedral. By 1155 or 1160, the five radiating chapels of the choir were completed
and a decade later the ambulatory and choir were finished. These early campaigns
consisted of a four-story elevation: nave arcade, gallery, blind triforium (no passageway),
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