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The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais) is a Catholic church in the northern town of Beauvais, Oise, France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis .
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.
Largest church in Austria by area, but two metres shorter than St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna since no building in Austria-Hungary was allowed to be higher than St. Stephen's Cathedral (also the reason why there are no taller churches in Budapest and Prague) 11: St. Peter's Church: 132.2 m (436 ft) 1878: Hamburg Germany: Lutheran
The city's cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais), in some respects, the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, consists only of a transept and quire with apse and seven apse-chapels. The vaulting in the interior exceeds 46 m or 150 feet in height. [5]
The Diocese of Beauvais was re-established in 1822, and the Diocese of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis was created in 1851, comprising the territories of all three formerly separate dioceses. Beauvais Cathedral serves as the seat of the enlarged diocese.
former cathedral (bishopric suppressed in 1801); World Heritage Site Beauvais Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais: Beauvais: Beauvais: Saint Peter: cathedral Belfort Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Christophe de Belfort: Belfort-Montbéliard: Belfort: Saint Christopher: cathedral Belley Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Belley: Belley ...
Beauvais Cathedral; S. Saint-Étienne Church (Beauvais) This page was last edited on 19 April 2020, at 22:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Basse Œuvre of Beauvais (French Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Basse-Œuvre de Beauvais) is a church at the west end of Beauvais Cathedral dating to the 10th century. It is the western end of a much longer church which had been Beauvais's cathedral, and was built in the form of a Roman basilica , a style which ...