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Chartres Cathedral, (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, lit., Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres), is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres.
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 ...
Chartres' windows are celebrated for their cobalt blue, known as "Chartres blue" or "Romanesque blue", which first emerged in the workshops at Saint-Denis Basilica in the 1140s and was also used at Le Mans Cathedral. With a sodium base coloured with cobalt, it is the more resistant than reds and greens of the same era.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens . It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens , the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some 120 kilometres (75 miles ...
A few important examples of 12th-century windows are found at Chartres Cathedral on the inside of the western facade, in three lancet windows under the rose window. These windows survived a devastating fire in the Cathedral in 1194, and are considered some of the best examples of 12th-century work in France. [5]
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 ...
Opening Day has arrived in Paris for the historic Notre-Dame Cathedra l, now 5½ years after a disastrous fire nearly destroyed the medieval landmark.. French President Emmanuel Macron provided a ...
External length in m Internal length in m Nave length in m Width in m Name Completion City Country Comment N/A (underground) 262: 89: 18: Basílica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos