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Evreux Cathedral

Evreux, Normandy, France
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About Evreux Cathedral

The Evreux Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church situated in Evreux, Normandy, France. The house of God is a national landmark and is the seat of the Bishop of Evreux. Some portion of the lower part of the nave dates from the 11th century. The west facade with its two ungraceful towers is for the most part from the late Renaissance. Different styles of the interceding time frame are spoken to in the remainder of the congregation. An exhaustive reclamation was finished in 1896.

The detailed north transept and entry are in the late Gothic colorful style; the choir, the best piece of the inside, is in a prior Gothic structural style. Cardinal de la Balue, religious administrator of Evreux in the second 50% of the 15th century, built the octagonal focal pinnacle, with its exquisite tower. To him is additionally due the Lady sanctuary, which is astounding for its finely safeguarded recolored glass.

Two rose windows in the transepts and the cut wooden screens of the side churches are magnum opuses of 16th century workmanship. The recolored glass windows were pulverized amid World War II however were reestablished by Jean-Jacques Gruber in 1953. The religious administrator's castle, a structure of the fifteenth century, abuts the south side of the house of God.

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