Cathedral · France · Partial ruin
Beauvais Cathedral
Beauvais Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais) is the Gothic seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis in northern France. Only the 13th-century choir and the 16th-century transept were completed; the planned nave was never finished and a remnant Romanesque church (the Basse Œuvre) remains on the western site. The cathedral is noted for having the highest Gothic choir vault in the world and for a very tall tower that stood briefly in the 16th century.
First raised
1225
Its prime
1569
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1569
What Beauvais Cathedral looked like in its prime.
A vertical, pale limestone Gothic choir and transept rise in a forest of slender flying buttresses and tall lancet windows filled with medieval stained glass; a slender 153 m tower crowns the crossing. The chevet is polygonal with seven apsidal chapels reached by an ambulatory. South and north portals are richly carved; the intended nave site to the west is occupied by the lower Romanesque Basse Œuvre and a provisional west wall. Roofs are covered with lead tiles, stone vault ribs soar above the nave-less west end.
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9 places to explore in 1569.
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