The bell tower at Lagrasse Abbey: before and after

• 3,175 m2 of walls cleaned and repointed;
• 200 linear m of wooden beams,
• 197 m2 of lead
• 107 m2 of tinned copper,
• 100 closing grids,
• 48 m3 of cut stone,
• 45 m of guardrails,
• 10 doors,

• 8 bays closed with sound baffles;
• 7 flying buttresses,
• 4 buttress heads and pinnacles,
• 4 gargoyles,
• 3 floors,
• 2 tons of steel,
• 1 wooden vault;

Two and a half years of work
to successfully restore the abbey’s bell tower!