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

Exterior, south
Exterior, historic view of city from Cathedral in 1940
Exterior, historic view of chevet and flying buttress
Exterior, historic view
Exterior, historic view from Cathedral of the city
Exterior, southeast view from 1940
Exterior, southeast view from rue de la Madeleine
Exterior, east view from rue des Jacobins
Exterior, south view
Exterior, south, from the rue Feutrier
Exterior, chevet from the rue des Flageots
Exterior, view from Cathedral looking east
Exterior, south view from October 1940
Exterior, La rue de la Manufacture in November 1940, chevet