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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres , (French: ), a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Chartres, about 80 kilometer southwest of Paris, is considered one of the finest examples in all France of t...
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It has many light industries and is a market center for the surrounding fertile plains of Beauce, but the city is more famous for its magnificent two-spired Gothic cathedral (built 1194-1225), ... Titus Burckhardt, Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral (1996); John James, Chartres: The Masons Who Built a Legend (1982);
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Chartres Cathedral by unknown architect, at Chartres, France, 1194 to 1260, in the Great Buildings Online. ... Chartres Cathedral Commentary ... Sources on Chartres Cathedral...
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Images of Chartres Cathedral by Harold Olejarz ... The town of Chartres, situated to the southeast of Paris, is dominated by its magnificent and justly famous cathedral dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. This structure is built on the foundations of earlier churches, the first dating to the eighth century.
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Originally, Chartres Cathedral was a Romanesque church constructed in 1145. In 1194, all but the west front was destroyed by fire. Between 1205 and 1260, Chartres Cathedral was rebuilt on the foundation of the ... Built of limestone, Chartres Cathedral is 112 feet (34 meters) high and 427 feet (130 meters) long.
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1150-1400 is marked as the great age of cathedral building. Several tons of stone were quarried to build 80 cathedrals, 500 large churches, and tens of thousands of parish churches. ... Amiens Cathedral. Begun c. 1220...
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The Chartres style labyrinth has a close association with Christianity. It is a tool for spiritual growth. ... The most famous of these remaining labyrinths is at Chartres Cathedral near Paris, France. The labyrinth at Chartres was built around 1200 and is laid into the floor in a style sometimes referred to as a pavement maze.
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Johh James - Chartres cathedral and Gothic architecture. ... Chronology of Chartres Cathedral ... The cathedral built after the first fire was almost as large as the present building, and at the time the second largest church in Europe, the first being Saint Peter's in Rome.
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For Victor Hugo, the Gothic cathedrals of northern France had always belonged to "poetry and the people". They belonged to the people because Hugo liked to think that they had been built to celebrate communal endeavour and spiritu...
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