Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais

Beauvais Cathedral

Date

begun 1225

Work Type

Style/Period

Notes

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

View on Wikidata.

See Also

View in Mapping Gothic

Beauvais, Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

Related Fieldwork Collection

Mapping Gothic

Life of a Cathedral: Notre Dame of Amiens

Panoramas of World Architecture

Interior, chevet, inner aisle north side, looking west
Interior, ambulatory, north side and radiating chapels
Interior, chevet, ambulatory south inner aisle looking west
Interior, south ambulatory and chevet vaults
Interior, southernmost radiating chapel, vaults, looking north
Interior, south ambulatory and upper chevet
Interior, south ambulatory looking into chevet
Interior, south ambulatory and radiating chapels
Interior, south ambulatory and radiating chapels
Interior, south ambulatory
Interior, south ambulatory
Interior, south ambulatory aisle
Interior, chevet, ambulatory, triforium
Interior, ambulatory, general view
Interior, ambulatory, general view
Interior, ambulatory, detail of capital of transverse arch