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: 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