Stone cutting demonstration workshop

Name: Stone cutting demonstration workshop
Start: 2022-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor

As part of the restoration work, the masonry company SELE offers a stone cutting demonstration workshop, where young and old can discover, learn and be initiated.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free.

©Laure Maynadier - DRAC Occitanie

At the foot of the west facade, in the construction site area specially opened for the Heritage Days, a stone cutting demonstration workshop is organized throughout the afternoon of Sunday, September 18, by the company SELE, specialized in historical monuments and masonry restoration.
Several stonemasons will introduce you to the techniques for cutting and sculpting a block of stone, using the appropriate tools; you can even learn how to handle the chisel!
At the same time, they will explain to you the know-how currently used for the restoration of the bell tower and why this material called stone is synonymous with durable.
In addition, a presentation of the restoration work will take place by the DRAC Occitanie and INRAP in the bishop’s chapel.

About the location

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor

9 rue Saint-Castor, 30000 Nîmes

Gard
Occitanie

Built in the XIth century, the tower of the bell tower is raised(enhanced) of a floor crowned with machicolation in the XVth century. After Michelade of 1567, the cathedral is partly destroyed. Works of reconstruction begin at the end of the XVIIth century with the repair of the facade and end in the XIXth century with that of the inside. On the facade, the frieze telling the Old Testament matters(counts) among the heads - of works of the Romance sculpture in the region. Exceptional opening of the chapels of Evêque, martyrs and of the rosary.