Once a heap of abandoned rubble, the limestone blocks from a dismantled Spanish monastery now form walls and soaring ceiling arches in the reconstructed medieval chapter house nearing completion at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina.
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Master stonemason Frank Helmholz, who is directing the restoration of the Abbey of New Clairvaux, savors the beauty of the cross-rib vaulted ceiling in the reconstructed medieval chapter house in Vina, near Chico, earlier this month.
