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Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (other)
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre may refer to: * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême in Angoulême * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Annecy in Annecy * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais in Beauvais * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Condom in Condom, Gers * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Rennes in Rennes * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Vannes in Vannes, Brittany * Cathédrale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Nantes in Nantes * Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon * St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva See also * St. Peter's Cathedral (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre D'Annecy
Annecy Cathedral (French: ''Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Annecy'') is a Roman Catholic church located in Annecy, France. The cathedral is a national monument. The church was erected at the beginning of the 16th century by Jacques Rossel as a chapel for a Franciscan priory. During the French Revolution, the building was used as a temple of the Goddess Reason. It was raised to the status of a cathedral in 1822, when the Diocese of Annecy was established from the Diocese of Chambéry. The organ of the cathedral was built by Nicolas-Antoine Lété, an organ builder of the French king, in 1840–1842.Association des amis de l'orgue - Annecy, http://www.orgue-cathedrale-annecy.fr/ External links Location References Annecy Cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre De Beauvais
Beauvais Cathedral otherwise the Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais () is a Catholic church in the northern town of Beauvais, Oise, France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis. The cathedral is in the High Gothic style, and consists of a 13th-century choir, with an apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels reached by an ambulatory, joined to a 16th-century transept. It has the highest Gothic choir in the world: under vault. From 1569 to 1573 the cathedral of Beauvais was, with its tower of , the highest human construction of the world. Its designers had the ambition to make it the largest gothic cathedral in France ahead of Amiens. Victim of two collapses, one in the 13th century, the other in the 16th century, it remains unfinished today; only the choir and the transept have been built. The planned nave of the cathedral was never constructed. The remnant of the previous 10th-century Romanesque cathedral, known as the '' Basse Œuvre'' ("Lower Work"), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre De Condom
Condom Cathedral () is a Catholic church and former cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter in Condom, Gers, France. It was listed as a ''monument historique'' in 1840. It was formerly the seat of the Bishops of Condom; the diocese was added to the Archdiocese of Auch in 1822. Building description The cathedral dominates the town, which sits on a hill above the Baïse River. It was designed at the end of the 15th century and erected from 1506 to 1531, making it one of the last major buildings in the Gers region to be constructed in the Southern French Gothic style of south-west France. The church has buttresses all around and there is a square tower over the west front. The west front door has the Four Evangelists' symbols in the tympanum, and the south nave door in the Flamboyant Gothic style has 24 small statues in the niches of the archivolt. Inside, the wide aisleless nave is lit by the clerestory windows with ''grisaille'' glass. There is a neo-Gothic openwork screen from 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre De Rennes
Rennes Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Rennes, France. It has been a monument historique since 1906. The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, is the seat of the Archbishop of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo, previously Bishop of Rennes. Building history The site has been used for a cathedral more or less from the beginnings of the see in the 6th century. The earliest building was completely replaced by a Gothic cathedral in the 12th century, of which in 1490 the tower and the entire west front collapsed. The existing façade with its neoclassical granite towers in four stages was constructed over the next two centuries or so, with long gaps between the different stages: the lowest level was built between 1541 and 1543, the second from 1640 to 1654 (by Tugal Caris), and the fourth (by Pierre Corbineau) from 1654 to 1678. Yet another architect, François Hoguet, completed the towers, between 1679 and 1704, at their present height of 48 metres and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre De Vannes
Vannes Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Peter in Vannes, Brittany, France. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Vannes. The present Gothic church was erected on the site of the former Romanesque cathedral. Its construction lasted from the 15th to the 19th centuries; if the length of the existence of the 13th century Romanesque bell tower is included, a total of seven centuries of construction. The cathedral was declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius IX on 5 June 1870. History The first building was erected around 1020 in Romanesque style. Built out of and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre Et Saint-Paul De Nantes
Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (), is a Roman Catholic Gothic architecture, Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish in 1891. It has been listed since 1862 as a ''monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture. Cathédrale Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul Background The reconstruction of the cathedral commenced during the early to mid-15th century during a time when Nantes and Brittany were commercially prosperous, initiating such large-scale architectural projects on a wide scale, partly owing to the opportunist and skilful diplomatic policy of John V, Duke of Brittany in a period of political turmoil and conflict with England. History The cathedral's foundation stone was laid on 14 April 1434, by John V, Duke of Brittany and Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes (1417–1443). The first architect in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
