Flèche de Notre Dame

1861

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During the restoration of the cathedral was reconstituted in location arrow restraint main aisle and transepta.Pervaya needle was constructed in the 1250 Year and was a church bell 5 bells. However, most of the time and wind load weakened the structure so that it had to be dismantled (indicate the date from 1786 to 1792).Vtoraya shooter was built by the architect Viollet-le-Duc, head of the project of restoration of the cathedral, the team Bellu carpenter in 1859, about as evidenced by the metal plate at the base of the arrow (arrow built out of oak beams and is lined with sheets of lead, its total weight is 750 tons (500 metric tons of wood and 250 tons of lead). However, in the cathedral of arrow under no columns that held.. To a weight thing is that at the base of the arrow was built a special frame of inclined rafters that rest on four central pillars transeptpa This design allowed to redistribute the weight of the arrow on the supporting structures sobora.

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