Notre-Dame, Paris

[french frank]

I used to live less than 20 minutes walk from Norte Dame and visited often. I’m heartbroken.

So am I. I was passing it in a taxi just a couple of weeks ago - that whole part of Paris, the Seine, Notre Dame, part of my student life.

[MarkSealey]

https://twitter.com/alex_fremont/status/1117883912632430593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In the US they're saying that nothing will be saved

[Bryn]

"The basic stone structure is now out of danger" (latest report on BBC News).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/15/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-fire-witnesses-describe-plumes-smoke/

[Nick Armstrong]

A heartbreaking event...

But a reminder that after the historic Parliament building in Rennes was gutted in 1994, it re-emerged even more beautiful than before:

[Bryn]

Bear in mind that this:



was very handsomely restored (at a cost of around £30 million.

'Glass half-full', me.

[Flay]

Not forgetting York Minster in 1984

https://images.app.goo.gl/SPvdXfyudX8PixeL6

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

On the live Sky/BBC TV feeds (after D Trump had tweeted about such) someone commented that dropping water from above was potentially even more destructive to fragile structures, due to the sheer weight of the...

I expect Trumpy’s been watching Superman 3.

[Richard Tarleton]

A heartbreaking event...

But a reminder that after the historic Parliament building in Rennes was gutted in 1994, it re-emerged even more beautiful than before:

Another (smaller) example - the National Trust's Uppark, in West Sussex.....which I mention only because it was caused by workers ignoring hot lead work protocols while working on the roof.

[Keraulophone]

Johann Vexo, the choir organist of NDdP, has just said on R4 Today that he thinks the grand orgue could possibly be saved, and there is a report that the two rose windows have survived.

R E S U R G A M

[johncorrigan]

Not forgetting York Minster in 1984

https://images.app.goo.gl/SPvdXfyudX8PixeL6

Wish the same could be said about the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow. Interesting that, like Notre Dame, the fire in the Mackintosh also started while restoration work was happening.

[Bryn]

Wish the same could be said about the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow. Interesting that, like Notre Dame, the fire in the Mackintosh also started while restoration work was happening.

As with the Windsor Castle fire of 1992.

[cloughie]

Wish the same could be said about the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow. Interesting that, like Notre Dame, the fire in the Mackintosh also started while restoration work was happening.

A rather macabre job creation programme!

[vinteuil]

R E S U R G A M

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... indeed.

The motto of the city of Paris : fluctuat nec mergitur - she is tossed by the waves but does not sink.

Thanks to writers above who have given reassuring reminders of the restorations at York and Windsor.


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[Ein Heldenleben]

Johann Vexo, the choir organist of NDdP, has just said on R4 Today that he thinks the grand orgue could possibly be saved, and there is a report that the two rose windows have survived.

R E S U R G A M

Resurgam was the word placed above the porch of the bombed and burnt- out St Andrew’s Minster in Plymouth In 1941 . If anything St Andrew’s experienced even greater destruction than Notre Dame. For those that found the fire at the latter almost unbearable to watch we can take comfort from the fact the St Andrew’s was lovingly rebuilt with the bonus of some beautiful stained glass windows by John Piper.
I really hope the Great Organ is saved - Notre Dame has a choir organ as well.

[BBMmk2]

Resurgam was the word placed above the porch of the bombed and burnt- out St Andrew’s Minster in Plymouth In 1941 . If anything St Andrew’s experienced even greater destruction than Notre Dame. For those that found the fire at the latter almost unbearable to watch we can take comfort from the fact the St Andrew’s was lovingly rebuilt with the bonus of some beautiful stained glass windows by John Piper.
I really hope the Great Organ is saved - Notre Dame has a choir organ as well.

There is a work for brass band called Resurgam. Composed by Eric Ball. I hope to play this today.