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Beauvais Cathedral

Beauvais, Hauts-de-france, France
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About Beauvais Cathedral

The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais is a Roman Catholic Church inside the northern city of Beauvais, France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senile. Construction became started inside the 13th century. The cathedral is of the Gothic style. It consists handiest of a transept and choir with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels 13th century which might be reached with the aid of the use of an ambulatory.

Work became commenced in 1225 underneath rely bishop Milo of Auteuil with funding of his own family right now after the 1 to 3 in a series of fires inside the vintage timber roofed basilica which had deconsecrated its altar best 3 years in advance than the hearth the choir grow to be finished in 1272, in campaigns with an c programming language because of a funding catastrophe provoked through manner of a warfare with Louis IX. The campaigns are distinguishable through a mild shift inside the axis of the paintings and by modifications in stylistic handwriting. Under Bishop Guillaume de Grez a further 4. 9m became brought to the height to make it the highest vaulted cathedral in Europe.

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