The thickness of church walls

    by Glitch_King

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    1. Could it be hay bale insulation? I went in a building like that once and they had glass showing it was insulated with hay bales

    2. Their logic was that ticker walls are less likely to collapse. Which is broadly correct and good enough for back in the day

    3. It’s lack of engineering progress at the time. Before Gothic architecture came along and made huge windows in thinner walls possible with buttresses to reinforce them, all they had to provide enough strength was huge thick walls. If you look up Romanesque churches it’s all thick walls and tiny windows.

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