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.

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See Also
View in Mapping Gothic
  • Exterior, north transept with sacristy
  • Exterior, chevet, buttress upright (culée) in ambulatory
  • Exterior, chevet clerestory window south side
  • Exterior, historic view of chevet and flying buttress
  • Exterior, historic view
  • Exterior, upper choir and transept, north side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper choir, south side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper choir, south side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper hemicycle, north side, flying buttresses
  • Exterior, upper hemicycle, flying buttresses
  • Exterior, upper hemicycle, flying buttresses
  • Exterior, north side of choir, buttress at base of hemicycle
  • Exterior choir, north side, buttress from northeast
  • Exterior choir, south side, buttress from southeast
  • Exterior, choir, south side, buttress
  • Exterior, upper transept and choir, north side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper choir, north side, flying buttresses
  • Exterior, upper choir, north side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper transept and choir, south side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper choir, south side, flying buttress
  • Exterior, upper choir, south side, flying buttress
  • Bases of intermediary uprights of flying buttresses of hemicycle seen under the chapel roofs