Toul Cathedral

Toul Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toul) is a Roman Catholic church in Toul, Lorraine, France. It is a classic example of Gothic architecture.

The cathedral was formerly the seat of the Diocese of Toul. Established in 365, it was annexed in 1824 to the Diocese of Nancy, which in 1777 had been formed from the Diocese of Toul. Since 1824, the diocese has been known as the Diocese of Nancy-Toul, with one of the biggest cloisters in France.

The towers of the facade measuring 65 meters high, the nave, 100 m long and a vault height of 30 meters (32 meters before the raising of the pavement) and transept 56 meters wide.

Despite construction on more than three centuries, the building (outside front) has a homogeneity of style. The 13th century saw the construction of the choir, the transept, the last section of the nave and the first row of the gallery of the cloister.

A remarkable element in the construction of the transept is the creation of windows topped with roses that open the transept wall over most of its height. This glass wall effect will be taken at the Cathedral of Metz during the creation of the western facade, a century later and the sixteenth during the reconstruction of the transept as the Basilica of St. Vincent de Metz.

In the 14th century, the four bays of the nave are built.

In the 15th century, the magnificent Gothic façade is built and the first two bays of the nave. In the sixteenth century, two Renaissance chapels were added to the front of the north and south aisles of the nave, the Chapel of All Saints, became the burial of Jean Forget, chaplain and cantor of the chapter of canons, and the chapel bishops with its flat roof coffered, supported by simple low arches - closed for fifty years, awaiting restoration.

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