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Soissons Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais) is a Gothic basilica church in Soissons, France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin . The construction of the south transept was begun about 1177, and the lowest courses of the choir in 1182.
Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁvɛ sɛ̃ pʁɔtɛ]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on Place Saint-Gervais in the Marais district, east of City Hall (Hôtel de Ville).
The expert glassmaker appears in records for the first time in the royal building sites of the chapel of Fontainebleau and in Villers-Cotterêts in 1527. He worked on these sites in competition with Jean de La Hamée who had been received as a master in 1526, and who obtained orders for Fontainebleau, Villers-Cotterêts, and the Château de Madrid between 1528 and 1535. de La Hamée later died ...
The Somme towns were strategically important in the 15th century conflict between the Valois dukes of Burgundy and the kings of France. [15] Picardy, the region in north eastern France in which they were located, lay between the French royal domain in the Île-de-France and the dukes' Low Countries possessions, the Burgundian Netherlands. [16]
Panoramic view of the Cathedral The ruins of the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. Soissons Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Soissons) is constructed in the style of Gothic architecture. The building of the south transept was begun about 1177, and the lowest courses of the choir in 1182.
Soissons Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Soissons: Soissons: Soissons: France: Saints Gervasius and Protasius: cathedral, minor basilica Southwell Minster Cathedral and Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Southwell and Nottingham: Southwell, Nottinghamshire: England: Blessed Virgin Mary: parish church Strasbourg ...
Lectoure Cathedral. Lectoure Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Lectoure) is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Lectoure, France. It is a national monument. [1] It was the seat of the former Diocese of Lectoure. The cathedral is divided under the Concordat of 1801 between the Diocese of Agen and the Archdiocese of ...
Picardy also holds the tallest transept in the history of the Gothic period; this transept is located in Saint-Pierre cathedral in Beauvais, Oise. The Museum of Picardy in Amiens, built between 1855 and 1867, houses a vast array of great works, spanning the centuries and ranging from archaeology from ancient Greece and Egypt to modern works of ...