Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres

This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as “Cathédrale de Chartres”.

This building is classé au titre des monuments historiques de la France. It is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00096993 .

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Notre-Dame de Chartres is a Gothic cathedral in Chartres, France. The west facade was built in 1134–1145 and the rest was built in 1194–1260.

Photos - Exterior

 See also category: Exterior of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres.

West facade

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Southeast view

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Portals

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  West facade, portals
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  Central bay
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  North transept, porch of middle portal
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  South porch
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  Pillar statues
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  Central tympanum
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Flying buttresses

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  Flying buttresses of the nave
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  Flying buttresses of the nave
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  Flying buttresses of the nave
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  Flying buttresses of the apse
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Other views

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  View from the north
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Photos - Interior

 See also category: Interior of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres.

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  Chartres Interior
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  Labyrinth at the cathedral
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  Sculptures of the choir
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  Astronomical clock
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  Well of the crypt

Stained-glass windows

 See also category: Stained-glass windows of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres.

These pictures are considered as Featured pictures and Quality images on Wikimedia Commons:

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  1145–1155:
  the 3 bays under the western rose window.
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  1180:
  Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière, in the ambulatory.
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  1205–1215:
  western rose window from outside.
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  1205–1215:
  the life of Joseph, in the northern side aisle.
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  1221–1230:
  the southern rose window.
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  1230:
  the northern rose window.
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  13th-century:
  detail: the marriage at Cana, in Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière.
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  13th-century:
  the Annunciation, in the ambulatory.
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  1867:
  chrome lithography of the stained-glass window: the life of Jesus, Paris, Imprimerie impériale.

More stained-glass windows of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres …

• Stained-glass windows of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres

• The Zodiac window (bay 28a)

• The Good Samaritan Window (bay 44)

Drawings

Drawings of Viollet-le-Duc

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  Plan
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  Plan of the first storey
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  South tower from west facade
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  Tympanum from main portal
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  Column

Other drawings

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  West facade
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  South elevation
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  View from the south
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  West facade