French Cathedrals & Churches

Bordeaux - Brioude

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

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West front (12th c.)

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South transept exterior (c. 1310-30)

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North choir exterior (c. 1280-1310)

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North transept (c. 1310-30) with spires (1665, restored mid-20th c.)

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Portail Royale tympanum & archivolt (c. 1250), north nave exterior

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De Gramont buttress (1531-35), east side, north nave exterior

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Tour Bey-Berland (1440-50) from north

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Nave looking east (12th c.)

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South nave wall (12th c.) with paintings

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Lierne vaults at west end (1515); eastern bays (1st half 13th c., restored Danjay, 1852-58)

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Nave lierne vault, bays 1 & 2, and organ at west end

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Organ (Gonzales, 1982); buffet (18th c.); Renaissance tribune (1531)

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'The Resurrection & Ascension of Christ,' bas relief from jubé (1540)

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South transept rose window, 'Glorification of the Virgin;' tracery (14th c.); glass (19th c. with some from 16th c.)

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North transept rose window, 'Passion of Christ;' tracery (Boachon, 1512, restored 1848 & 1935)

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Crossing vault (c. 1310-30)

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Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, windows (Villiet, 1860), north ambulatory

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Choir (c. 1280-1310)

Bordeaux, St-Seurin

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West porch (11th c.) masked by sham Romanesque façade (1831)

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South porch portal with Last Judgment tympanum (c. 1200)

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Nave looking east (11th-13th c.)

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'Tree of Jesse' (19th c.), Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Rose

Boulogne-sur-Mer, St-Nicolas

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Classical façade, upper levels (18th c.)

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Organ at west end

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Choir (altered 16th c.)

Bourbon-Lancy, St-Nazaire

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West front (11th-12th c.)

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Exterior from southeast (11th-12th c.)

Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation (begun 1505), Renaissance façade (1647-54)

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Lierne vault in nave (1515-30)

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'Crucifixion' window (1530), upper panels, Chapelle St-Crépin

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Organ tribune & pillars at west end (1530-45)

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Choir stalls, north side (c. 1530)

Bourg-en-Bresse, Église de Brou

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Approaching St-Pierre de Brou (1506-32) from northwest

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St-Pierre de Brou (1513-32), west front

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West portal (closeup)

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Nave, looking east

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Tomb of Philibert of Savoy, center of choir

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Retable, 'Seven Joys of the Virgin' (closeup)

Bourges, St-Bonnet

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'Resurrection & Ascension' (Attr. Jean Lecuyer, 1551), 4th north chapel window

Braine, St-Yved

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Exterior from northwest (1180-1216); west front (destroyed 1832 & rebuilt)

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Southwest exterior (1180-1216)

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North transept rose exterior (c. 1190)

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Central tower from northwest (1180-1216)

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Nave looking east (c. 1190)

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West front portal tympanum (c. 1200) reset inside west end

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Crossing tower from southeast (c. 1190)

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North transept rose (c. 1190), glass (20th c.)

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North choir with oblique chapels looking west to truncated nave (c. 1190)

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Chevet hemicycle (c. 1190) with modern glass

Brioude, St-Julien

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Bronze lion door knocker, south porch door (12th c.)

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Nave looking east (late 12th-early 13th c.)

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Pebble pavement floor (16th c.), north nave

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Modern north window at crossing

Bordeaux, Ste-Croix

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Romanesque west front porch (late 11th c.); south tower (early 12th c.)

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West front portal archivolt (late 11th c.)

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South tower and nave exterior (early 12th c.)

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Chevet from east (12th c.)

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Top of north tower from northeast (Abadie, 19th c.)

Bordeaux, Basilique St-Michel

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Tour St-Michel (1472-86)

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Exterior from southwest (1350-c. 1550)

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East end chevet (14th-16th c.)

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North transept (14th-16th c.) & Tour St-Michel (1472-86)

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Nave looking east (14th-16th c.)

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Chapelle St-Joseph (16th c.)

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Flamboyant vault, Chapelle St-Joseph (16th c.)

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Organ (Micot, 1774; Merklin, 1865; restored 2011); buffet (Cessy & Audebert, 1762-65)

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East end choir clerestory windows (Max Ingrand, 20th c.)

Bordeaux, Notre-Dame

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Baroque façade (Pierre Berquin & Sons, 1684-1707)

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Frieze above entrance portal (late 17th c.)

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Nave with Baroque recessed barrel vault (1684-1707)

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High altar (1751) & frescoes from Life of Virgin (1834)

Boulogne-sur-Mer,
Basilique Notre-Dame

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Basilica from northeast (1827-66)

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Basilica dome from north (1827-66)

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Nave & vault looking east (1827-66)

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Dome of Rotunda Chapel with apostles (1827-66)

Le Boulou

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Romanesque portal Nativity frieze (Master of Cabestany, 12th c.)

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Romanesque capital (12th c.), right side of portal

Bourbon-l’Archambault, St-Georges

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West front (2nd half 12th c.)

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South exterior with nave (2nd half 12th c.); lateral chapel (15th c.); bell-tower (rebuilt 1865)

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Nave looking east (2nd half 12th c.)

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North nave musicians' capital (mid-12th c.)

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Crossing dome (mid-12th c.)

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Lady Chapel in south transept (rebuilt 19th c.); headless Virgin & Child (14th c.)

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St-Sacrement chapel in north transept (rebuilt 19th c.)

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Choir & apse (rebuilt 19th c.)

Bourges Cathedral

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West front (13th-16th c.) from northwest

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West front central portal, Last Judgment (1240-50)

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West front central portal archivolt & tympanum, Last Judgment (1240-50)

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Central portal tympanum, Last Judgment (1240-50)

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Chevet (13th c.) from Archbishop's Garden

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Nave (1195-1218), looking east

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Nave vault (13th c.), looking east

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South nave elevation (c. 1230)

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Organ buffet (1663) resting on gallery (1599)

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West rose (1392), lower panels (1450)

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Copin Chapel (no. 1, 1518), south nave aisle

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Tullier Chapel (no. 4, 1532), angel musicians on tympanum

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Window I, Patriarch Joseph (1220), lower panels (detail)

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Window IV, The Passion (1220), south ambulatory

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Window VI, The New Alliance (1220), north ambulatory

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Window IX, Invention of the Relics of St-Étienne (1220), north ambulatory

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Window X, Lazarus and the Bad Rich Man (1220), north ambulatory

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Chapel no. 7 (1220), south ambulatory

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Jacques Coeur Chapel (no. 12, c. 1450), north ambulatory

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