Cathedral Notre-Dame de Noyon
See also: Notre-Dame
The cathedral Notre-Dame de Noyon is located in the town of Noyon, in Picardy.
It is built on the site of a church set fire to in 1131, is Chronologiquement the first Cathédrale built in France, before the Cathédrale S of Laon and Paris.
It constitutes an example of architectural transition between the Roman and the Gothique.
The Cathedral
Its construction
Its plan is in Latin Croix, with a size of is in west of approximately 105 meters; the height of the vaults of the nave is of 23 meters. The western frontage contains a porch added to XIVe century, and two turns which were never finished, their highest portions date from XIIIe century; its decorative reasons were largely damaged.
Interior
The nave
The Nef consists of eleven bays, including that of the western frontage, which inside form a kind of Transept. In the Stained glasses of the Side S, arches of the Triforium, and the stained glasses of the Cleristorio the type in round form is maintained; but the double acute vaults appear in the lower gallery; and higher vaults, at the origin of the vaults sixpartites, which were rebuilt after a fire in 1293 in the style acute dominating.
Transepts
The Transept S have terminations semicircular on the apse. Side chapels were added in the side of north to XIVe century and in the side of the south in XVe and XVIe, one of the last (1XVe) is particularly rich in decorations. The Arc-boutant S of construction were rebuilt at the XIXe century in the style of XIIe century.
The cloister
Corner of the North-West of the nave runs the Western gallery of pretty a Cloître set up in 1230; and beside the cloister the chapter-house of the same date is located, with its entry decorated with statues with the bishops and other sculptures.The tombs of the bishops were destroyed in the cathedral during the French revolution. The First World War also considerably damaged the cathedral, which needed twenty years of repair work.
See too
External bonds
- Card on the site Structurae.de