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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View in Mapping Gothic
  • Interior: axial chapel and ambulatory
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between N1-N2
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, outside edge between N1-N2
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between N1-S1
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between N3-N4
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between S1-S2
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between S3-S4
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between S4-S5
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between S5-S6
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between S6-S7
  • Interior: ambulatory and chevet from east triforium level
  • Interior: ambulatory and chevet from north triforium level
  • Interior: north transept from triforium level
  • Interior: south ambulatory
  • Interior: south transept, east aisle
  • Exterior: ambulatory roof terrace, between N4-N5
  • Interior: Basse-oeuvre
  • Interior: Choir
  • Exterior: between Cathedral and Basse-Oeuvre
  • Interior: South Transept
  • Exterior: Chevet, Northeast
  • Exterior
  • Interior: Crossing