Notre Dame Cathedral Attic

Images from notre dame s website show the wood frame of the cathedral.

Notre dame cathedral attic.

Monday s fire at the notre dame cathedral started in the attic. Notre dame cathedral in september 2018. The image from april 17 shows the aftermath of the recent fire the main roads and bridges that span the seine river and lead to the cathedral. Notre dame de paris french.

The popularity of victor hugo s historical novel notre dame de paris 1831 wherein the cathedral is the setting was said to have inspired the renovations. The notre dame restoration project was to focus on reinforcing the spire and repairing some of the attic beams said olivier de chalus a construction engineer and volunteer guide at the cathedral. During a restoration campaign in 2019 a fire broke out in the cathedral s attic and the massive blaze destroyed most of the roof viollet le duc s 19th century spire and some of the rib vaulting. The cathedral was undergoing renovations when the fire broke out including to repair attic beams construction engineer olivier de chalus told the times.

The attic is an oddly shaped space seldom visited that lies above the soaring stone arches visible from the floor of old european cathedrals. Meaning our lady of paris referred to simply as notre dame is a medieval catholic cathedral on the île de la cité in the 4th arrondissement of paris the cathedral was consecrated to the virgin mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of french gothic architecture its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress. Diagrams of notre dame and official descriptions of. From notre dame de paris maurice de sully association to kick off the project workers cleared 21 hectares of oak.