Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass
With the exception of the Romanesque lancets of the west façade and the window of Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière reset in the south choir, … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Building
Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral building and decoration: architecture, sculpture and stained glass, before and after 1194.
Chartres Cathedral Transepts
When Chartres was rebuilt after the fire of 1194, both the scale and extent of cathedral imagery had changed. Gothic Chartres was conceived as a … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Royal Portal Sculpture
The west portal of Chartres Cathedral, known as the Royal Portal, was part of a campaign to beautify the cathedral, which began in the time … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Sculpture
Our Lady of Chartres is par excellence a cathedral of images, both carved and painted. Portals to west, north and south are guarded and enlivened … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Old Building
Prior to the current gothic cathedral, there was another church standing on the current site. The oldest surviving part of the building is a chamber … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Architecture
Current building Chartres Cathedral, built of limestone, is around 34 m high and 130 m long internally. It has a four-bay choir with double aisles … Read more
Chartres Cathedral Before 1194
Apart from Fulbert’s crypt the earliest part of the Chartres Cathedral is the west end. Architecturally, its most prominent features are the two towers. These … Read more
Chartres Cathedral After 1194
The damage inflicted by the fire of 1194 is hard to assess today, although contemporary chroniclers indicated that it was total. It is possible that … Read more