French Cathedrals & Churches

La Celle - Chârost

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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La Celle, St-Blaise (near Bourges)

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Wrestlers on right side of west front (12th c.)

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Capital (12th c.) on southeast choir chapel

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East end exterior (12th c.)

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Northeast exterior (12th c.)

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Nave looking east with barrel vault (12th c.)

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Crossing dome with bell pulls & choir (1100)

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South choir columns & capitals (12th c.)

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Capital #2, south choir (12th c.)

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North choir columns & capitals (12th c.)

Chalivoy-Milon, St-Éloi

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Bell-tower (end 12th-beginning 13th c.)

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South choir exterior (c. 1126)

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North nave portal tympanum (c. 1126)

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Choir frescoes (2nd quarter 12th c.)

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North choir upper frescoes & choir vault (2nd quarter 12th c.)

Chalon-sur-Saône, St-Pierre

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West façade (1698-1713, rebuilt 1900)

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Nave looking east (1698-1713)

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Crossing dome (1700)

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North transept window

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Organ wooden sculptures (early 18th c.)

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South choir stalls (early 18th c.) with Pope St-Grégoire & St-Jérôme

Châlons-en-Champagne Cathedral

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North transept (completed 1261) & Romanesque tower (1140s)

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North transept rose window (c. 1260)

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Baroque west façade (1628-34)

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South nave flying buttresses (late 15th c.)

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Nave looking west (late 15th c. & 1628-34)

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South transept lower lancets (1938-40), Saints & bishops

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North transept rose (1260), 'Last Judgment' & 'Childhood of Christ'

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Choir vault (completed 1261, restored 1668)

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Treasury 'Redemption' window (mid-12th c.) (detail)

Chambéry Cathedral

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West front (late 15th c.)

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West front portal (1506)

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Nave looking west with trompe l'oeil decoration (1833-34)

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North choir elevation with trompe l'oeil decoration (1810)

Champeaux, Église Collégiale
St-Martin

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Life of Mary window (16th c.)

Champigny-sur-Veude,
Sainte-Chapelle St-Louis

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Approaching Sainte-Chapelle St-Louis (1507-43) from southeast

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Lierne vault (1507-43)

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'Crucifixion,' central bay (16th c.)

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'The Embarcation of St-Louis to Aigues-Morte,' center panes, bay 2 (16th c.)

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'Storming of Damietta by the Crusaders,' center panes, bay 4 (16th c.)

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'The Battle of Al Mansurah,' center panes, bay 5 (16th c.)

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'The Return of the Crusade,' center panes, bay 8 (16th c.)

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'The Death of St-Louis,' center panes, bay 10 (16th c.)

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'Charlemagne,' bay 11, rose window (16th c.) (detail)

La Charité-sur-Loire, Notre-Dame

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West front Ste-Croix bell-tower (1115-35) & west portal (early 16th c.)

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Ste-Croix bell-tower (1115-35) from southeast with old priory ruins

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Ruins of old priory north nave aisle (1115-35) & 19th c. houses below

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Southeast exterior (11th & 12th c.)

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East exterior (11th & 12th c.)

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Nave looking east (4 bays rebuilt 1695)

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South nave clerestory, bay 2, (Max Ingrand, 1950s)

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West window (Max Ingrand, 1950s)

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South transept upper windows (Max Ingrand, 1950s)

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Transfiguration tympanum (1132, rebuilt 1835)

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Crossing dome (1115-35)

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South ambulatory (1115-35)

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Choir (1115-35) & southeast transept (1060-80)

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Choir (1115-35)

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Choir capital #1 (12th c.)

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Choir capital #4 (12th c.)

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Choir capital #5 (12th c.)

Charlieu, Couvent des Cordeliers

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Cloister (late 14th-15th c.) on north side of church

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Cloister columns & capitals (late 14th-15th c.)

Charlieu, St-Philibert

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Neo-Gothic west front (19th c.)

Chârost, St-Michel

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West façade (mid-12th c.); gable (1860)

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South nave exterior (mid-12th c.) & bell-tower (16th c.)

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South nave portal tympanum (mid-12th c., rebuilt 1866)

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Nave looking east (mid-12th c.); wooden vaults (16th c.)

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Apse (mid-12th c.) with 19th c. decoration

Cerisy-la-Forêt, Abbey

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Exterior from southeast (late 11th c.)

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Southwest transept & south nave elevation (late 11th c.)

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Transept crossing piers (15th c.)

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North choir stalls (1400, oldest in Normandy)

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Apse (begun 1089), top clerestory & hemicycle vault (14th c.)

Chadenac, St-Martin

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St-Martin & cemetery from southeast

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West façade, left side arch archivolt (1140-70)

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West façade portal capital, right side (12th c.)

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Southwest exterior (1140-70), under scaffolding

Chalon-sur-Saône Cathedral

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West front (1822-50) & parvis

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Northeast exterior (early 13th c.) with north apse chapel (1080)

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Nave looking east (12th-15th c.)

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North nave arcade with Romanesque pillars & capitals (early 12th c.)

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North nave triforium & clerestory (13th-14th c.)

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South nave aisle chapels enclosed with stone grids (claustras) (15th c.)

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1st south nave column capital (12th c.)

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3rd north nave aisle Chapelle du St-Curé-d'Ars (1522)

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Organ (1702-09) at west end

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Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié, Eucharistic tapestry (1510), southeast transept

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'Resurrected Christ' (1600), north transept

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Choir and apse (1220); vault (1374-1436)

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'Supper at Emmaus' capital (12th c.), north choir

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Stone canopy (15th c.) over bishop's throne, north choir

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Apse arcade windows (1220), glass (19th c.)

Châlons-en-Champagne,
Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

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Église from southeast (1157-1217)

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Nave looking east (1157-1217)

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North nave from choir (1157-1217)

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West end rose (early 13th c., with 19th c. glass)

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1st north nave window, center panels, 'The Battle of St-Jacques' (1525)

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4th south nave window, lower right panel, 'The Nativity' (1537)

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3rd south nave window, center panel, 'La Cène' (c. 1545-50)

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Northeast transept elevation (late 12th c.)

Chambéry, Sainte Chapelle

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Façade of Sainte Chapelle (1647-55)

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North exterior (15th c.) with old 37-bell carillon (1937)

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Stone vault (17th c.)

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East end windows (1521-47)

Chaource, St-Jean-Baptiste

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West front (16th c.)

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North choir (late 12th c.); north transept & nave (16th c.)

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Nave sexpartite vault (16th c.)

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North nave aisle & nave interior looking southeast

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Retable of Notre-Dame de Lorette (16th c.), end of southeast aisle

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Pulpit (18th c.), in north nave

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North nave aisle rosace, 'Les 7 douleurs de la Vierge' (1544)

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Organ (Louis Le Bé, 1689), at west end

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Chapelle de St-Jean-l'Evangéliste dite 'du paradis' (1538), north transept

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Entrance screen to Chapelle de St-Jean-l'Evangéliste (1538), from inside north transept

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Life of St-Sébastien window, upper panel (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste (detail)

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God the Father, Paradise & Hell window (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste

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God the Father, Paradise & Hell window, upper panels (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste (detail)

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Passion reredos & Apocalypse window (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste

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Passion reredos, 'The Crucifixion,' lower level (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste (detail)

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Apocalypse window, upper panels (16th c.), Chapelle St-Jean-l'Evangéliste

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Entombment (Master of Chaource, 1515)

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Entombment (Master of Chaource, 1515) (close-up)

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Entombment (Master of Chaource, 1515), The Three Women (detail)

Charlieu, Abbey

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West front narthex (12th c.)

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West portal tympanum, 'Christ in Majesty' (11th c.)

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Ruins of 1st nave bay with groin vault (11th c.)

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North narthex entrance from northwest (12th c.)

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North narthex portal (12th c.)

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North narthex portal lintel & tympanum (12th c.)

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North narthex, right side, 'Marriage Feast of Cana' (12th c.)

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Church ruins (11th c.) from upper floor of narthex

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Looking west over ruins to 1st nave bay (11th c.)

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Abbey cloister (15th c.)

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