The Ley line Group visits
the Cathedral of Chartres
Page Three
Many answers based upon the Building
History
at Home2b.nl
Go to Page 1 of the Chartres report
The Black Madonna
Go to Page 2 of the Chartres report
The message of the Templars
Go to
Page 4 of the Chartres Report
Message of the Templars -2-
Go to page 5 of the Chartres report
the Labyrinth
The building history of the cathedral of Chartres
gives many answers
Robert and Susan visited the Cathedral of Chartres south of Paris
together with other members of the Ley Line Group.
The veil of the Virgin.
This authentic veil is researched and dated exactly in the First
Century.
Because of the relic the cathedral of Chartres was already very
famous in the
early Middle Ages.
The hill Saint Fort upon which the Cathedral was built,
was the center of Celtic religion.
Julius Ceasar wrote about this hill and the dolmen where the Druids
were initiated.
Still the Templars were focused on telling their message in the cathedral.
The Templars were an amazing group of people
The goal of our visit was to find the creative spirit, the
inspiration
and the message of the Templars.
The Templars were building 21 cathedrals in this area in a time
span of about 40 years.
Why this enormous effort and how could this be financed?
Is there a message in all this coming from the Templars
towards us spanning the centuries?
The North East side of the Cathedral has big walls going down about
40 meters in total.
The feeling of the Ley Line Group is
that the entrance towards the cellars inside the hill is hidden
here.
There is enough space between the original soil of the building
place and
the floor of the cathedral, at least 12 meters and more.
Together we went towards the Cathedral of Chartres as an object for
study,
because the Cathedral of Chartres was given priority by the
Templars.
This cathedral was finished as one big project
without break or financial hesitation within 26 years.
The master builder of the cathedral had the building plan
ready to start construction within a year,
which gives an idea of the high priority of this cathedral!
Building
History of the Cathedral of Chartres
The
building history is very important to understand why we think
that a
megalithic monument (a dolmen) and more cellars
can
be in existance below the cathedral.
The
crypt is the floor of the cathedral of Fulbert.
Below
the crypt lies the ruin of the Carolingian cathedral
of
which the chapel of Saint Libuin is the UPPER part.
Below
the Carolinginian ruins are the Gallo-Roman and Celtic remains.
Al
these levels certainly had crypts and cellars.
The Southportal of the cathedral is much higher then
the surroundings.
In reality the floor level of the cathedral is 12
meters higher
then the floor level of the dolmen below it.
Also the Jupiter temple and the Merovingian cathedral
are below.
Southside of the ship of the cathedral.
The stones in the floor are still original!
Below
this floor are remnants of the older cathedrals
with
their cellars and
somewhere
is also the original dolmen.
The cathedral of
Chartres has been built on top of the older cathedrals
who came before this
definitive building.
The difference in
height between the floor of this Gothic cathedral
and the original soil is somewhat more then 12
meters.
Not every detail of
the older buildings is known.
Remnants have been
found of the Carolingian cathedral.
The so called chapel
of Saint Lubain is part of this Carolingian cathedral,
but not the lower part
of the chapel, but the upper part of six meters.
Windows of the crypt
in the cellar.
The crypt is the floor
level of the preceding Cathedral of Fulbert.
Small window on the
Northside of the crypt.
The window is of Roman
style, like the cathedral of Fulbert was of Roman style.
Below the chapel of
Saint Lubain deep in the cellar is still a space of about three meters
before the original
floor of the Carolingian cathedral is reached.
Because the
Carolingian cathedral will also have had a cellar
to hide costly objects
in the medieval time of plunderers, it is very likely that there is space
below the chapel of
Saint Lubain, both because the lower part of the Carolingian cathedral
is still there and
maybe an ancient cellar of Carolingian or Merovingian origin.
It is even possible
that the cellar originates in the ancient Roman or Celtic buildings.
It seems that there
has not been any archeological research into this subject.
This could indicate
that the cellar is kept secret.
The crypt of the
Chartres cathedral is more or less the old floor of the Roman cathedral that
burned down in 1194.
In the first wall below
the cathedral is this little door.
Entrance of cellars?
Another door at the
garden level below.
A double door at the
garden level.
Unexplained doorway
and staircase in the crypt.
There is enough space
below the cathedral to have cellars and cavities.
There are apparantly
entrances into this area at the original leel of the hill.
The building history is as follows:
First there was a
megalithic monument, a so-called dolmen.
It is known that
Chartres was the capital of the Celts and the Druidic religion.
Julius Ceasar mentions
this dolmen in his book.
The Romans did built a
temple on this place.
It is not known which
temple. On other places, like Utrecht in the Netherlands,
there was a Jupiter
temple below the cathedral.
See our special webpage on this
subject.
The mighty walls of
this Jupiter temple are still supporting
the pillars of the Chartres
cathedral, namely the choir pillars.
Also the West East
orientation of the cathedral was disturbed by those mighty ancient walls.
Still visible are the
ruins of one of the three Christian churches
that preceded the
building of the cathedrals.
Three Christian
churches were built more or less surrounding the Roman and Celtic buildings.
Also the healing well
of Saint Fort was in between those three Christian churches.
The healing well
played an important part in the Celtic religion.
The picture shows the
ruines of one of the three Christian churches built
on the orginal level
of the Jupiter temple and the dolmen and two other churches.
This again illustrates
how much higher the present cathedral is built then the original buildings.
In 511AD the
Merovingian kings started building the first cathedral of Chartres.
This was small
building with crooked lines of pillars, because the Merovingian builders
had to stay in line
with the mighty Roman and Celtic buildings.
The entrance of the
Merovingian cathedral was on the North side.
This is the case with
many Christian buildings of that early time.
In 743AD the
Carolingian builders started to build their cathedral,
this is the second
cathedral of Chartres.
In the cellar on the
North side are pieces of ancient walls visible,
both from the Roman
times between 100AD and 450AD
and from the
Merovingian cathedral between 743AD and 858AD.
The cathedral was
build over the Roman and Celtic buildings,
filling in the soil with rocks and debris.
The mighty walls of
the Roman building were integrated
in the fundamentals of
the Carolingian cathedral.
The chapel of Saint
Lubain was part of this cathedral.
The well of Saint
Fort.
This was the holy well
of the Druids.
This well is half
integrated in the wall of the cathedral of Fulbert.
This was done in the
year 1020AD
The well was forgotten
after some time and in 1904AD the well of Saint Fort was found back
by archeological investigations.
The well of Saint Fort
was kept outside this Carolingian cathedral.
Very likely at that
time the well of Saint Fort was still used for the ancient religion.
In 1020 the third
cathedral in Roman style was built over the Carolingian construction,
taking away the top
part of the Carolingian cathedral,
may be using the
debris to fill in the soil again to have a building level
on the level that is
today the bottom of the crypt.
The Roman cathedral
was very famous, called the Cathedral of bishop Fulbert.
The front of the
Cathedral at the West side.
The start of the
building of the front was around 1134AD.
The towers were
standing in front and apart of the older cathedral of Fulbert and
that is the reason that this part of the
cathedral did not burn down in 1194AD.
The towers are
enormous and there are at least five levels of rooms.
The left tower is much
higher then the right tower, but this was done centuries later
by local nobility who
wanted higher tower for some reason.
In 1194AD this Roman
cathedral of Fulbert burned down.
Coincidentally the
building of the two towers of the fifth Gothic cathedral was already started in
1134AD.
The two towers were
standing separately from the Roman cathedral,
so they were not
damaged by the great fire.
The towers were placed
more to the West on the real soil of the place
without filling in the
building level with debris.
The Black Madonna in
the cellar.
This wooden statue is
an exact copy of the statue that was destroyed in the French revolution.
This statue was
apparantly venerated in the cathedral of Fulbert
between 1020AD and
1194AD.
The relation with the
Isis tradition of the Roman soldiers is visible.
We also found a Mary
in the Cellar in Utrecht.
See the
special page about the Utrecht measurements.
To compensate for the
cellar place of the Black Madonna the veneration of the Black Madonna on the
Pillar
was instituted in the ship of the Gothic
cathedral.
The Black Madonna on the Pillar see page
One.
The building of the
Gothic cathedral is a miracle.
In only 26 years the
building was finished. This gives two mysteries:
-where did al those
building people come from?
-who did pay for the
building?
The second question is
partly solved by saying
that the order of
Templers payed most of the money.
This leaves unanswered
where they did find the enormous resources to finance such a big cathedral.
It is known that local
groups of people,
specially nobility and
handicraft people were bringing in contributions.
Still the financing is
unexplained.
Also in later
centuries additions were being made,
which goes to far to
go into details.
Ancient window in the
crypt.
This window is from a
deeper level then the Fulbert cathedral.
Thus window must be
Carolingian of even Merovingian.
So the cathedral is
build as a fortress.
The Templars gave a sign
of their presence.
The angel figures
indicate that something important is to guarded.
The building history
indicates the presence of many more cellars then are known.
Does this lead to a
conclusion?
There is reason to
suppose that there are entrances and cellars below the present
floor level of the
cathedral.
Is it possible that
even the original dolmen is still there?
Go to Page 1 of the Chartres report
The Black Madonna
Go to Page 2 of the Chartres report
The message of the Templars
Go to
Page 4 of the Chartres Report
Message of the Templars -2-
Go to page 5 of the Chartres report
the Labyrinth
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