Beauvais Saint-Peter Cathedral

Local nameCathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais
LocationBeauvais, France

The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais is a Roman 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 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: 48.5 metres under vault. From 1569 to 1573 the cathedral of Beauvais was, with its tower of 153 m, 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.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvais_Cathedral

Address Rue St Pierre, 60000 Beauvais, France

Coordinates 49°25'57.26" N 2°4'53.475" E

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