We are told that this was commissioned in the 13th century following a fire in 1225, the choir of Saint-Pierre de Beauvais was engineered to reach an unprecedented vault height of over 48 metres. We are told that it was constructed from precision-cut local limestone, iron tie-rods, and soaring flying buttresses.

The monument pushed stone masonry beyond what standard medieval textbooks claim was possible.

Now, I straight away have a problem with the 'Iron tie rods', simply because in the earlier days of cavity walls found in the late 1800's, and sorry English Heritage, but you are wrong, I have worked on, deconstructed and repaired many where the Iron cavity wall ties had disintegrated due to lime alone being too 'acidic' for iron, which is why Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) was added to the mortar mixes, to raise the alkalinity of mortar mixes, and prevent premature structural failure. Yet OPC wasn't even invented, in England, until 1843!

Are you starting to see that the history we are taught appears to have quite obviously been altered yet?