French Cathedrals & Churches

Talmont-sur-Gironde - Tournus

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Talmont-sur-Gironde, Ste-Radegonde

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East end (1140-70) & mouth of the Gironde

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Southeast exterior (1140-70)

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Northeast exterior (1140-70)

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North portal, capitals & archivolt (1140-70)

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Nave looking east (1140-70)

Tavant, St-Nicolas

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West front (12th c.)

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'Serpent tempting Adam & Eve,' 6th north nave capital (12th c.)

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'Christ leading Adam & Eve out of Hades,' crypt capital (late 11th c.-early 12th c.)

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'Mermaids,' 1st south choir capital (12th c.)

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Apse frescoes (13th c.)

Thouars, Ste-Chapelle

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West façade, lower levels, Flamboyant Gothic; upper levels, Italian Renaissance (1503-09, restored 1874-77)

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Italian Renaissance loggia gallery & gable (1503-09)

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East end exterior above crypt (1503-09, restored 1874-77)

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North exterior (1503-09, restored 1874-77)

Thouars, St-Laon

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Bell-tower (12th c., with 19th c. repairs)

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Nave looking east with Plantagenet vault (12th-15th c.)

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Remains of tomb of Marguerite of Scotland, 1st wife of Louis XI (d. 1445)

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Entombment (15th c.), south choir chapel

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South choir stalls (17th c.)

Til-Châtel, St-Florent

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East end (1130-50)

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Choir buttresses from northeast (12th c.)

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Nave looking east (c. 1180)

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4th south nave capital (mid-12th c.)

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Wooden 'Christ aux outrages' (12th c.)

Toul Cathedral

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Toul Cathedral from east

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West front (1460-96)

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West front upper levels (1460-96)

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West front lower levels (1460-96)

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Nave looking east (14th-15th c.)

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West end rose (late 15th c.)

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Renaissance chapel (1580), east side, in south nave

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Renaissance chapel (1580), cupola (detail)

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Nativity altar (1689), southeast transept

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North transept window (1503)

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North transept window, top panels of lancets (1503)

Toulouse Cathedral

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West front (13th c.) & portal (15th c.) with northwest transept (1920s)

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Gargoyle

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Organ (1614) in south transept

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West rose (1230, with 15th & 16th c. glass)

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Disjointed choir and nave, looking east

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North transept vault (1920s)

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Chapelle St-Joseph, left window (15th c.) (detail)

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Chapelle St-Joseph, center window (15th c.)

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Chapelle de Ste-Jeanne-d'Arc, lower panels, Sts-Roch & Sébastien (16th c.)

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Chapelle de St-Pierre, lower panels (14th c.)

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Choir looking east (begun 1272; unfinished)

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Choir stalls, south side (Monge, 1610-13)

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Bishop's chair (1611) in south choir

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North choir wrought-iron railing (18th c.)

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Baroque altarpiece, left side (1667)

Tour-en-Bessin, Église St-Pierre

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West front Romanesque tympanum & archivolt (12th c.)

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Spire, lower levels (13th c.)

Tournus Abbey

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Abbaye St-Philibert, approach

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North tower & belfry (end of 11th c.), south tower (10th c.), gallery linking towers (Questrel, 19th c.)

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Central tower (12th c.)

Tarascon, Collégiale St-Marthe

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South nave exterior & Romanesque portal

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Organ at west end

Tarbes Cathedral

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Chevet (late 12th-early 13th c.), from northeast

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Gothic octagonal lantern at crossing

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Organ (17th c.) at west end

Ternant, St-Roch

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Passion reredos (late 15th c.)

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Passion reredos, panel 5 (late 15th c.) (detail)

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Virgin's reredos (mid-15th c.)

Thaims, St-Pierre

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Southwest exterior (end of 11th-13th c.)

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South transept, choir with blind arcade & octagonal tower (end of 11th-13th c.)

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Nave looking east with barrel vault & ribbed vault at the crossing (13th c.)

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Octagonal lantern tower (11th c.) with bell pull

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Choir with oven vault (rebuilt 20th c.)

Thouars, Chapelle Jeanne-d'Arc

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West façade (1889) with fountain

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West façade tympanum, 'Jesus blessing the children' (late 19th c.)

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South exterior (1889)

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Chapel interior looking west (1889)

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West rose (Clamens, 1888)

Thouars, St-Médard

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West façade (12th c.); north bell-tower & rose window (15th c.)

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West façade, lower levels (12th c.); rose window (15th c.)

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West façade, lower levels, left side decorated columns (12th c.) (detail)

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West façade, central portal (12th c.)

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'Punishment of the Vices' with rebec, west façade portal capital, left side (12th c.)

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'Christ rising from the tomb' surmounted by 'Christ in Glory,' west façade, central portal, top of archivolt (12th c.) (detail)

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North nave portal with Arabic scalloped embellishments (12th c.)

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Nave looking east (15th c.)

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North transept Chapelle St-Louis lierne vault (1510)

Toul, St-Gengoult

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Cloisters, northeast galleries (1510-30) & garden

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South transept window (14th c.) (detail)

Toulon Cathedral

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Classical west front (1696) & bell tower (1737-40)

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North nave elevation (1661)

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Retable of Chapelle du Corpus Domini (17th c.)

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Choir (1661, restored 19th c.) with statue of St-Pierre in a boat for processional

Toulouse, Église des Jacobins

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Toulouse, Les Jacobins (13th c.), west front

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Northeast tower, upper levels (1265-98)

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Tomb of St. Thomas Aquinas (1369-1791; 1974-present), center nave

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22-rib east end column & vault (13th c.)

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Cloisters (1306-09), looking northeast

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Chapelle St-Antonin (1335-41), angel with stringed instrument on wall

Toulouse,
Notre-Dame-de-la-Dalbade

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West front with rose (16th c.)

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Renaissance portal (1537) & tympanum (Virebent, 1878)

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West rose (16th c.)

Toulouse,
Notre-Dame-du-Taur

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Approaching west front (14th-16th c.)

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West front (14th c.) from northwest

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West front, upper levels (14th c.)

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East end rose (19th c.)

Toulouse, St-Sernin

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Porte Miègeville tympanum (c. 1110-15)

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Porte Miègeville sculpture (early 12th c.)

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Five-tiered octagonal belfry (12th-13th c.), from southeast

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Chevet (c. 1075-96), from southeast

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Nave looking east (late 11th c.)

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North nave elevation (late 11th c.)

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North transept columns

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Northeast transept chapel Raymond IV window (1887)

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Northeast transept window (1897), center panels

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