Chartres Cathedral
Item
- Title
- Chartres Cathedral
- Alternative Title
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres
- Drafter
- King, Thomas Harper (English architect, born 1822)
- City
- Chartres, Centre, France
- Location
- France
- Building Creation Date
- rebuilt 1194-1260 (creation)
- Century
- 12th century
- 13th century
- Description
- ground plan of cathedral, plans
- Dedicated to Notre-Dame, Chartres Cathedral acquired strong associations with the cult of the Virgin. Most of the 12th- and 13th-century sculpture and stained glass survive, to make the cathedral one of the most 'complete' medieval buildings in existence. The present cathedral was built after a fire in 1194
- of the earlier church only the 11th-century crypt and the 12th-century western block survive. The cathedral, built of limestone, is about 34 m high and 130 m long internally. It has a four-bay choir with double aisles and a double ambulatory with six radiating chapels, of which three are shallow and three, reflecting the surviving crypt chapels, are deeper. [A UNESCO World Heritage Site]
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- plans
- Style/Period
- Gothic (Medieval)
- Cultural Context
- French
- Subject
- Cathedrals -- Gothic -- France -- Chartres -- Cathédrale de Chartres
- Source
- King, Thomas H. The Study-book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art. Bruges, Belgium: C. Beyaert, 1893, 49.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
“Chartres Cathedral”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 13, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18467