Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral building and decoration: architecture, sculpture and stained glass, before and after 1194.
The damage inflicted by the fire of 1194 is hard to assess today, although contemporary chroniclers indicated that it was …
Apart from Fulbert’s crypt the earliest part of the Chartres Cathedral is the west end. Architecturally, its most prominent features …
Prior to the current gothic cathedral, there was another church standing on the current site.
The oldest surviving part of the …
Our Lady of Chartres is par excellence a cathedral of images, both carved and painted. Portals to west, north and …
The west portal of Chartres Cathedral, known as the Royal Portal, was part of a campaign to beautify the cathedral, …
When Chartres was rebuilt after the fire of 1194, both the scale and extent of cathedral imagery had changed.
Gothic Chartres …
With the exception of the Romanesque lancets of the west façade and the window of Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière …
Current building
Chartres Cathedral, built of limestone, is around 34 m high and 130 m long internally. It has a four-bay …