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, ambulatory, base
Interior, chevet, south outer aisle, pier base
Interior, chevet, southern main arcade pier base seen from aisle
Interior, south transept/chevet aisle base
Interior, southwest crossing pier base
Interior, north transept pier
Interior, southwest crossing pier
Interior, north transept, base of pier
Interior, north transept, base of pier
Interior, north choir aisles, outer aisle
Interior, south choir aisles, outer aisle
Interior, south choir aisles
Interior, south choir aisles, outer aisle
Bases of intermediary uprights of flying buttresses of hemicycle seen under the chapel roofs