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Although the town of Chartres was under the judicial and tax authority of the Counts of Blois, the area immediately surrounding the cathedral, known as the cloître, was in effect a free-trade zone governed by the church authorities, who were entitled to the taxes from all commercial activity taking place there. [74]
List of highest church naves # Cathedral/Church Nave height City Country Notes 1 Beauvais Cathedral: 47 m (154 ft) [3] Beauvais: France: The "Parthenon of French Gothic", only one bay of the nave was built, but choir and transepts were completed to the same height. 2 St. Peter's Basilica: 46 m (151 ft) [4] 45 m (148 ft) [5] Vatican City ...
The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated for their colours, especially their cobalt blue. They cover 2600 square metres in total and consist of 172 bays illustrating biblical scenes, the lives of the saints and scenes from the ...
The parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37) [5] complemented by a series of Old and New Testament typologies served as a popular subject for cathedral glazing programs in the thirteenth century. [6] Three French cathedral windows fabricated between 1200 and 1215 function in this way: Sens (c.1200), Chartres (1205/1215), [7] and Bourges (c ...
Henry II of England made Thomas Becket chancellor of England in 1155, in which role he lived the life of a great lord. [2] He then made him Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, hoping he would submit the church to state power, but Thomas took the opposite course and was exiled to France, where he spent several long stays in Chartres, accompanied by his friend and secretary John of Salisbury, who ...
French Gothic architecture was the result of the emergence in the 12th century of a powerful French state centered in the Île-de-France.During the reign of Louis VI of France (1081–1137), Paris was the principal residence of the Kings of France, Reims the place of coronation, and the Abbey of Saint-Denis became their ceremonial burial place.
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Schöngrabern Church, Austria, has a square chancel and projecting apse. Larger churches have a nave and aisles, each ending in an apse, and with no transept. [35] Examples are Pécs Cathedral, Ják Church and the Basilica of the Assumption, Tismice, Czech Republic. The aisles sometimes contained galleries for the nobility. [35]