It's funny: close up the Cathedral towers don't feel quite so chunky as they do in that view.

There's some very hopeful annotations on those drawings. "No new fixings into cruck"🤔

Yes. Seems to be a more constructive response for II* than plain G II.

It restores some faith to see that occasionally a less dogmatic approach is followed.

Have to say, the 'it's all reversible' approach has not been as successful in my experience. A number of conservation officers attach a great deal of importance to 'plan form' as part of the significance. And therefore even freestanding elements that subdivide a room are considered unacceptable.

Think I might have just found a signed paperback on Amazon!

I guess it comes down to money. The 'good' medieval churches in England are mostly funded by the wool trade (Cotswolds and East Anglia feature strongly). I think places like Beauvais are tied to the wool trade as well. Much history of sheep farming in Diois?

I guess stone is heavy so you only move it if you have to.

Talking of which, that Cathedral is a bit Brutalist.

The local museum guide says that the carved arch on the inside face of the gate is reused from a Roman gate.

Interesting looking at the change in window fashion.
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Presumably it would have looked a bit like this before the original opening was blocked up.

Is that a bricked up third slot for the other side of the main drawbridge on the right hand edge of the window? And the original floor levels must have been quite different.

Love the rebates for long-gone drawbridges just left partly bricked up.

For such a big box it has a short bang. Or is it just a small workshop?