The Chartres Cathedral was built following a fire that largely destroyed the previous church in 1194, the new choir being complete by 1221 and the whole building consecrated in 1260 as …

The warm glow of the light inside the Chartres Cathedral results from the incomparably beautiful stained-glass windows.

Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral building and decoration: architecture, sculpture and stained glass, before and after 1194.

The cathedral at Chartres was among the first sites to be included in the Unesco list of world heritage in 1979. It is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of Gothic architecture.

They were designed to be ethereal buildings, temples of light. Chartres Cathedral is already unique in several ways. It was completed in just 30 years. Unlike most other cathedrals, it has …

Chartres escaped serious attention from the Huguenots in the 16th century and suffered less than most cathedrals during the Revolution, although some of its precious relics, including the …

When Chartres was rebuilt after the fire of 1194, both the scale and extent of cathedral imagery had changed. Gothic Chartres was conceived as a pilgrimage church with prodigious …

But it doesn’t. The Chartres Cathedral stands at the highest point in this small town and in all the countryside around. Nothing near it can compare. Chartres is, in its domain, the highest note …

Chartres Cathedral, built of limestone, is around 34 m high and 130 m long internally. It has a four-bay choir with double aisles and a double ambulatory with six radiating chapels, of which …

Welcome to Chartres Cathedral, probably the finest example of French Gothic architecture and said by some to be the most beautiful cathedral in France.