Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais

Beauvais Cathedral
Date
begun 1225
Work Type
Style/Period

The church has the highest Gothic choir in the world. However, suffering two collapses – one in the 13th century and the other in the 16th – it remains unfinished today as works halted in 1600.

References

  • Interior, hemicycle triforium tracery
  • Interior, ambulatory, capital
  • Interior, chevet, ambulatory, base
  • Interior, chevet, north aisle triforium with 14th-c. consolidation
  • Interior, chevet, north outer aisle capital
  • Interior, south choir pier capital
  • Interior, ambulatory pier capital
  • Interior, north choir pier (added) capital
  • Interior, north choir pier capital
  • Interior, chevet, south outer aisle, pier base
  • Interior, chevet, southern main arcade pier base seen from aisle
  • Interior, chevet, ambulatory, triforium
  • Interior, south choir pier capital
  • Interior, chevet, south outer aisle capital (16th-c.)