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Popular action-adventure video game Assassin's Creed features a climbable cathedral modelled heavily on the Chartres Cathedral. Chartres Cathedral and, especially, its labyrinth are featured in the novels Labyrinth and The City of Tears by Kate Mosse, who was educated in and is a resident of Chartres' twin city Chichester. [82] [83] [84]
Canterbury Cathedral – The cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1067. Another fire in 1174 damaged the choir, leading to the rebuilding of the east end of the cathedral. An earthquake damaged the cathedral in 1382. An 1872 fire destroyed the roof of the Trinity Chapel. [80] Fires sustained during World War II bombings were quickly extinguished ...
The rebuilt Chartres Cathedral (1194) is considered the first example of a Gothic cathedral. building of Classic Gothic. [12] A series of earlier cathedrals in Chartres beginning in the fourth century, were destroyed by fire. The cathedral immediately previous to the present church burned in 1194, leaving only the crypt, towers, and the ...
It was built on the site of the former Chartres cathedral of Romanesque architecture, which was destroyed by fire in 1194 (that former cathedral had been built on the ruins of an ancient Celtic temple, later replaced by a Roman temple). Begun in 1205, the construction of Notre-Dame de Chartres was completed 66 years later.
1836 – Fire at Chartres Cathedral destroyed the sweet chestnut "forest" above the vaults. 1837 – The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia destroyed except for The Hermitage. 1844 – Separate fires at St. Michael's & St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Churches during the Philadelphia nativist riots, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This section of the cathedral was built after a fire in 1135 and is the only part to survive the 1195 fire. The central lancet shows Christ's nativity and life and is flanked by two slightly smaller lancets of his Passion and his human and Davidic roots with a Tree of Jesse , [ Note 2 ] the earliest surviving representation of this motif in ...
After Chartres Cathedral burned in 1020, Fulbert devoted his energies to raising funds for its rebuilding, which was completed in 1037, nine years after his death. [31] In 1194 the cathedral was again almost completely destroyed by fire; only the crypt, some of the west facade and two towers remained. [32]
In 1506, he was commissioned to rebuild the northern bell tower of the Chartres Cathedral [3] destroyed by lightning on 26 July 1506. In Chartres, Jehan de Beauce also built: [3] [4] The renovation of the Église Saint-Aignan de Chartres between 1513 and 1525. The construction of the pavillon of the Horloge astronomique de Chartres in 1520.