The Stone Path That No One Recorded

About 12.85 metres from one edge to the other, the labyrinth fills the nave of Notre-Dame de Chartres almost from pillar to pillar. It was laid in white limestone from the Berchères quarries and dark stone from Senlis, sometime in the early thirteenth century. No document from the chapter of Notre-Dame records why it was built, or what it was for, or what its builders called it.

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