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Beauvais Cathedral

Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais
Cathédrale Saint Pierre
Beauvais Cathedral Exterior 1, Picardy, France - Diliff.jpg
Beauvais Cathedral from SE.
Basic information
Location

Beauvais,

France France
Geographic coordinates 49°25′57″N 2°04′53″E / 49.4326°N 2.0814°E / 49.4326; 2.0814Coordinates: 49°25′57″N 2°04′53″E / 49.4326°N 2.0814°E / 49.4326; 2.0814
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Province Diocese of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis
Region Picardy
Country France
Year consecrated 1272
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Cathedral
Status Active
Heritage designation 1840
Leadership Jacques Benoit-Gonnin
Website www.cathedrale-beauvais.fr
Architectural description
Architect(s) Enguerrand Le Riche
Martin Chambiges
Architectural type church
Architectural style French Gothic
Groundbreaking 1225 (1225)
Completed Never completed. Works halted in 1600.
Specifications
Length 72.5 m (238 ft)
Width 67.2 m (220 ft)
Width (nave) 16 m (52 ft)
Height (max) 48.5 m (159 ft) (nave)
Official name: Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Designated 1840
Reference no. PA00114502
Denomination Église

Beauvais,

The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais) is a Roman Catholic church in the northern town of Beauvais, France. Constructed from the 13th-century onwards, it is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis. Of the Gothic style, it consists only of a transept (16th-century) and choir, with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels (13th-century), which are reached by an ambulatory.

A small Romanesque church dating back to the 10th-century, known as the Basse Œuvre, still occupies the site destined for the nave of the Beauvais Cathedral.

Work was begun in 1225 under count-bishop Milo of Nanteuil, with funding of his family, immediately after the third in a series of fires in the old wooden-roofed basilica, which had reconsecrated its altar only three years before the fire; the choir was completed in 1272, in two campaigns, with an interval (1232–38) owing to a funding crisis provoked by a struggle with Louis IX. The two campaigns are distinguishable by a slight shift in the axis of the work and by what Stephen Murray characterizes as "changes in stylistic handwriting." Under Bishop , an extra 4.9 m was added to the height, to make it the highest-vaulted cathedral in Europe. The vaulting in the interior of the choir reaches 48 m (157.48 feet) in height, far surpassing the concurrently constructed Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Amiens, with its 42-metre (138 ft) nave. (A formerly often-quoted beginning date of 1247 was based on an error made by an early historian of Beauvais.)


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