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Basse Œuvre
The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Basse Œuvre of Beauvais (French ''Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Basse-Œuvre de Beauvais'') is a church at the west end of Beauvais Cathedral dating to the 10th century. It is the western end of a much longer church which had been Beauvais's cathedral, and was built in the form of a Roman basilica, a style which still characterized the Carolingian era. The name Basse Œuvre ("Lower Work") dates from the 13th century, and distinguishes it from the Nouvel-Œuvre ("New Work"), the present 13th century Gothic cathedral. It was classed as a historic monument in the list of 1840. Eglise de la Basse-Oeuvre The 21 archaeological digs of :fr:Émile Chami, Émile Chami highlighted this monument. History The Basse Œuvre was built in the second half of the tenth century, and dedicated to St. Peter, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist. Few sources allow an exact dating of the building. A text taken from an obituary in the cathedral dating from about 1635 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauvais (60), église Notre-Dame-de-la-Basse-Œuvre, élévation Sud 2
Beauvais ( , ; ) is a town and Communes of France, commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise Departments of France, département, in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, north of Paris. The Communes of France, commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous town in the Oise department, and serves Paris through Beauvais–Tillé Airport, Paris Beauvais airport . Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, the metropolitan area of Beauvais has a population of 128,020. The region around Beauvais is called the Beauvaisis. History Beauvais was known to the Ancient Rome, Romans by the Gallo-Roman name of ''Caesaromagus'' (''magos'' is Common Celtic for "field"). The post-Renaissance Latin language, Latin rendering is ''Bellovacum'' from the Belgae, Belgic tribe the Bellovaci, whose capital it was. In the ninth century, it became a county (comté), which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
