French Cathedrals & Churches

Tours - Tulle

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Tours Cathedral

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West front (15th-16th c.)

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Window below tympanum over central portal (15th c.)

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West rose exterior (15th c.)

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Towers, upper levels (15th-16th c.), from south

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North tower (15th c.) (detail)

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Chevet (13th c.) from east

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Psalette cloister, Tour d'Escalier (1442-1524)

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Nave & vault (14th-15th c.), looking east

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West rose & triforium (15th c.)

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Grand orgue in south transept

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South transept rose (14th c.) with top pipes of organ (landscape)

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North transept rose & triforium (14th c.)

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North transept rose (14th c.), left side

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7th south ambulatory St-Martin window, right side, lower panels (13th c.)

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The Alliance Covenants (1254), center window, Lady Chapel in apse

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Choir hemicycle (13th c.)

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Hemicycle, center Passion window, bay 3 (13th c.)

Troyes Cathedral

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Northwest tower (1634) from west

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Flamboyant west front (Chambiges, early 16th c.)

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"West front, rose window (Chambiges, 1546)

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South transept rose exterior (19th c.)

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Chevet from northeast (c. 1208-50)

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North transept rose exterior (16th c.)

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

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South nave outer aisle looking east (begun 1290s, built mostly 1450-1500)

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Column capitals in south nave aisle

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1st south nave Chapel of the Fonts, Renaissance enclosure (Bailly, 1551)

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1st south nave Chapel of the Fonts, Virgin of the Apocalypse window (16th c.)

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4th south nave Chapel of the Assumption window (Linard Gontier, 17th c.)

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'Daniel' window, lower panels (16th c.), 1st bay south nave clerestory

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'The Mystic Winepress' (Gontier, 1625), 4th north nave chapel window

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'Job' window, lower panels (16th c.), 3rd bay north nave clerestory

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Organ (Jacques Cochu, 1737) at west end

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West rose (design by Chambiges, glass by Jean Soudain, 1547)

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South transept rose (19th c.)

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Crossing vault (13th c.) looking east

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North transept rose (1408-09) with stone brace

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Axial Lady Chapel windows (13th c.)

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'Tree of Jesse' window, panel 2 (13th c.), 2nd north ambulatory chapel

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Choir (1230s-1240s) with early glazed triforium

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Choir east end windows (1230s-1240s)

Troyes, St-Nizier

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West front (1528-1619); tower (1602-19)

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Northeast exterior (1528-1619); tower (1602-19)

Troyes, St-Pantaléon

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Classical west front (18th c.) & bell-tower (17th c.) with octagonal crown (1662)

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East end lower level (1530-50); choir clerestory (17th c.) from northeast

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Panorama of wooden vault (1660-75)

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Nave looking east (1530-50)

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South transept (1635-75) & pulpit (1832)

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'Story of Daniel' (Jehan I Macadré, 1531-36), lower panels, 1st south choir chapel window with grisaille and silver-yellow

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'Childhood of Christ & Life of Virgin' (c. 1535-45), 3rd south choir chapel window with grisaille and silver-yellow

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'The Arrest of Crépin & Crépinien' (1540-60) on Gothic dais, 2nd south nave aisle chapel

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'St-Sébastien' (16th c.), 2nd north nave column

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Canopy (c. 1530), 3rd north nave column

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'St-Jacques at the Battle of Clavigo,' middle panels (1539-40), north aisle grisaille window

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Choir (16th c.)

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'Le Calvaire' (1662) & east end clerestory windows

Tulle Cathedral

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West tower (12th-13th c.) and spire (14th c.) from northeast

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Center chancel window (Jacques Gruber, 1979)

Tours, Église St-Julien

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Nave looking east (1243-59)

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East end chancel 'Creation' window (1243-59), glass (Max Ingrand, 20th c.)

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Transept crossing (1243-59)

Tours, Basilique St-Martin

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Tour Charlemagne (12th-14th c.) & new Basilica (1887-1924)

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Neo-Byzantine nave (1887-1924)

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Nave elevation (1887-1924)

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Dome over choir (1887-1924)

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Choir (1887-1924)

Tréguier Cathedral

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Cathédrale St-Tugdual (14th-15th c.), southeast approach

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Southwest porch (14th c.)

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The three towers: north central & south

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South transept Tour des Cloches (15th c.) with pierced spire (18th c.)

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Choir vault

Trèves-Cunault, St-Aubin

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Nave (end of 11th c.); south transept (12th c.) with buttresses (added 15th c.); bell-tower (13th c.)

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Southeast end exterior (12th c.) with buttresses (added 15th c.)

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Nave looking east (end of 11th-beginning of 12th c.; restored 1860-65)

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Baptismal font (12th c.)

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Apse (12th c.; restored 1860-65)

Troyes, St-Jean-au-Marché

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Belfry (16th c.; collapsed 1911 & rebuilt), from southeast

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South choir Flamboyant chapels (16th c.)

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Choir from northeast (16th c.)

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North choir upper window & frieze (16th c.)

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Wolf face on frieze (16th c.)

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Nave looking east (13th & 16th c.)

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North nave elevation (13th & 16th c.)

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Organ tribune (Réné Cochu, 1806)

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'Baptism of Christ' (c. 1540), 1st south nave aisle window

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'La vie de St-Jean-Baptiste' (1536), 2nd south nave aisle window with grisaille and silver-yellow

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'St-Sébastien between St-Claude & St-Henri' (16th c.), 5th south nave aisle window

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Southeast end Chapelle de la Vierge (16th c.) with altar (19th c.)

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Chapelle de St-Ciboire (1692-93), east end ambulatory

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'La Cène & la Chute de la manne' (Linard Gontier, 1631), center east end window

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'St-Michel slaying the dragon' (c. 1500)

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'La Déploration' (c. 1515-30), north nave aisle

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Lierne vault in choir (1553)

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Gable of altarpiece (Michel Noblet, 1665-67)

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'Crucifixion' (1555), east end clerestory

Troyes, Ste-Madeleine

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North transept & nave exterior (12th-13th c.) from northwest

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Southwest tower & Flamboyant gate portal (1525) from southwest

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Entrance to south portal (1550) in white garden

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Nave looking east (12th-13th c., restored 19th c.)

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South nave elevation & west end (12th-13th c.)

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Flamboyant jubé (Jehan Gailde, 1508-15)

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Flamboyant jubé (Jehan Gailde, 1508-15) illuminated

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Choir (c. 1500) from inside jubé

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Choir vault (c. 1500)

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'Genesis' window (c. 1500), east end, left side

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'Tree of Jesse,' lower panels (Jehan Macadré, early 16th c.), east end, right side

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'Passion' window (c. 1490), east end of south aisle

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'Life of Mary Magdalene' window (1506), south choir, left side

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'Triumph of the Cross' window (Jehan Macadré, 1518), south choir, right side

Troyes, St-Rémy

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Clock tower (14th c.) & spire from south

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Spire from southwest

Troyes, St-Urbain

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West front (1875-1905)

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Central portal 'Last Judgment' tympanum (13th c.)

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West front (1875-1905) and south nave & transept (13th-14th c.) from southwest

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Chevet & north transept (13th c.) from northeast

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Nave looking east (13th-14th c.)

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West end window (Didron, 1901)

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Baptismal font (15th c.), end of southwest nave aisle

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South transept (1267-70) with 19th c. windows

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Northeast pier with northeast transept & north choir (13th c.)

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'La Vierge aux raisins' (16th c.) in Lady Chapel

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Double stone trefoil arches in south choir (13th c.)

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Rayonnant Gothic choir (c. 1262-66)

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East end choir clerestory center 'Crucifixion' window, middle panels (The Virgin & Christ, 19th c., St-Jean, c. 1270)

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