Sitting at the rooftop bar of the Hôtel Dame des Arts above the beating heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter, I admire the ...

Peter Henrikson, 61, a timber framer from Minnesota, measures a beam, part of the new roof of the Notre Dame cathedral de Paris, Thursday, May, 25, 2023., near Angers, western France.

The Cathedral was built in 2015, some 155 miles south-west of Nairobi, for a congregation of 1,500 people. Its inclined roof was a result from Bishop Emmanuel’s requirement to have a space which ...

But when Victor Hugo writes "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in 1831, it sparks a $60 million restoration, that tops out the cathedral with a new roof and a 750-ton timber and lead spire.

Four years ago, 25 tonnes of slate, comprising 14,000 pieces of specially hand-cut and hand-worked roof slate, were shipped from Wales for St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.

This time, the calls were about a much bigger house of worship: the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, nearly swallowed by an inferno in April 2019. Today, he and his tribe were here with hand axes.

She added, “Really, when it comes to the timber structure, all you need is some string, some charcoal, and a couple of axes and you can build a cathedral. We’re using those same techniques.” ...

FSU professor Rob Duarte will help lead a national project to build a large-scale model of trusses in the roof above the Notre Dame Cathedral’s choir.

The roof, with its 800-year-old wooden beams, is gone. The top of Notre Dame Cathedral is seen after a massive fire April 15, 2019. Mairie de Paris ...

Work on the building, which dates from 1079 and houses an original copy of the Magna Carta, is due to begin early next year. Rotten timber caused by leaks will be replaced, along with some stonework.

Thanks to money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Gloucester Cathedral is about to undergo a £6million development project with the installation of solar PV front and center. Mypower, a ...