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Early Gothic Architecture
*Abbey Church of St. Denis, western narthex and choir added by the Abbot Suger in 1137-1144
*Chartres, Notre Dame
West portal of an earlier church c. 1150
survives
*Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, c. 1230
Laon, Notre Dame
Begun in the late 1150s, finished 1190-1215
Drawings of the towers by Villard de Honnecourt
*Paris, Notre Dame
Begun under Bishop Maurice-de Sully, 1163,
completed by the 1190s
Nave remodelled after the model of Chartres,
1225